About the role
AI Engineer Intern
Location: New York City, SoHo (Fully In-Person)
About Besty AI
Besty AI is the leading AI-native operating system for the $1T+ short‑term‑rental and hotel industry. We're a venture-backed seed stage startup backed by Ridge Ventures, Armory Squared Ventures, Grand Ventures, and Bungalow Capital. We've raised over $6M from the heads of the Stanford & Berkeley AI labs and investors behind Discord, Fastly, Hugging Face, Covariant, and Replicate. Besty was founded by a property manager who scaled from 0 to 30 listings in under 10 months, an AI scientist from Yale, and an all-star team of software engineers obsessed with shipping a product loved by hundreds of paying hosts. We're proud to serve 10,000+ properties worldwide with practical AI applications to make their daily lives easier. We're looking for an ambitious student ready to take end-to-end ownership, ship production AI, and learn how a fast-growing startup operates.
About the Role
- Work directly with the Head of AI and engineering team
- Agentic development, LLM orchestration, and prompting experience is a plus
- Minimum 20 hours per week (hiring both part-time and full-time)
- We only work in-person at our office in SoHo, Manhattan. No remote candidates
Responsibilities
- AI Agent Tooling: Develop and maintain internal agentic workflows, function-calling scripts, and custom automations
- AI System Quality: Help senior engineers build AI-enabled systems through harnessed evaluation frameworks, benchmarking model performance, and debugging production LLM pipelines
- Special Projects: Contribute to ad hoc initiatives related to AI systems and process improvements
You Might Be a Fit If
- You're interested in startups and want to be a founder someday
- You want to learn a lot and get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing AI startup
- You have strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through
- You're comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with changing priorities
- You're independent and high-agency
What We Offer
- Ideal experience to learn a ton about startups and AI product development
- Ambitious and supportive atmosphere
Next Steps
If you believe you are a strong fit for this role, please submit your application and optionally reach out directly to the hiring manager with a concise overview of your background and interest in the position.
Hiring Manager: Head of AI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elan-shohet-zabin-2680b1108/