Agentic Systems Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

Phygtl, Inc is a company dedicated to addressing student social isolation through innovative technology. They are seeking an Agentic Systems Engineer Intern to help develop a mobile app that facilitates real-life student interactions through coordinated quests, focusing on optimizing participation and user engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Designing context-aware quest logic (physical + social + temporal signals)
• Detecting stall or drop-off conditions during coordination
• Suggesting structured micro-actions that increase completion probability
• Instrumenting evaluation loops tied to measurable behavioral outcomes
• Shipping production-facing components

Requirements:

• A strong computer science or engineering student
• Someone who has shipped real systems (GitHub required)
• Comfortable reasoning about state transitions and edge cases
• Curious about AI systems beyond simple prompt usage
• Able to move from idea → working prototype quickly
• Design a simple state-aware workflow
• Think through failure modes
• Explain tradeoffs (latency, cost, reliability)
• Tie technical decisions to measurable outcomes
• Agentic workflows
• Multiplayer or event-driven systems
• Evaluation pipelines for AI systems
• Side projects used by real users