Agentic Systems Engineer Intern (Summer 2026) - Remote

Overview

Phygtl is addressing the issue of student social isolation by creating technology that fosters real campus connections, significantly reducing feelings of isolation among students.

In Short

• Join the team building Vyry, a mobile app for real-life student interactions.
• Focus on optimizing quest participation through various communication methods.
• Work on real-time intelligence within a social product.
• Design context-aware quest logic.
• Detect and address coordination challenges.
• Suggest actions that enhance completion rates.
• Evaluate performance through measurable outcomes.
• Ship production components.
• Collaborate with a skilled team from top universities and tech companies.
• Gain experience in a high-bar, low-bureaucracy environment.

Requirements

• Strong computer science or engineering student.
• Experience in shipping real systems (GitHub required).
• Ability to reason about state transitions and edge cases.
• Curiosity about advanced AI systems.
• Capability to quickly prototype ideas.
• Design state-aware workflows.
• Understand technical tradeoffs.
• Relate technical decisions to outcomes.
• Bonus for experience with agentic workflows or event-driven systems.
• Ability to explain failure modes and solutions.

Benefits

• Work on impactful behavioral problems.
• Design systems that affect real-world coordination.
• Learn from experienced operators.
• Gain a unique skill set at the intersection of AI and real-time systems.
• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible remote structure.
• High ownership in a small team.
• Opportunity to work full-time for 3 months or part-time for 6 months.