Software Engineer Intern

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices automate conversations and inefficient processes and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab Crestas co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun the genius behind Google X Waymo Udacity and more. Our leadership also includes CEO Ping Wu the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform and co-founder Tim Shi an early member of Open AI.

Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here and its at Cresta.

Cresta is building the AI platform for the modern contact centerone of the largest and most critical systems in the global economy. We combine human agents and AI agents to handle customer conversations at scale helping enterprises improve customer experience increase revenue and reduce cost in real time.

This isnt experimental AI. Our systems run in live production environments shaping millions of customer interactions every day.

Were looking for builders who want to take ownership and move fast.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer Intern youll build systems that power real-time AI-driven customer interactions in contact centers. Youll work on production infrastructure where latency reliability and measurable business outcomes matter.

You may work across key areas such as:

• AI Agents & Automation systems that handle and assist high-volume customer conversations
• Real-Time Agent Assist delivering live guidance and insights during interactions
• Conversation Intelligence extracting insights from millions of conversations
• AI Evaluation & Reliability improving quality consistency and observability of LLM systems
• Platform & Infrastructure enabling scalable low-latency AI experiences

Crestas platform powers the full contact center workflowfrom real-time assistance and automation to post-call analytics and continuous optimization.

Youll operate in a high-ownership fast-moving environment where interns are expected to contribute meaningfully not just observe.

What Youll Do

• Design and build systems that support real-time AI-powered customer interactions
• Work on features combining LLMs data systems and user-facing applications
• Collaborate with engineers product and ML teams to ship production-ready solutions
• Build systems for evaluation monitoring and continuous improvement of AI behavior
• Optimize for low latency high throughput and reliability at scale
• Take ownership of problems end-to-endfrom identifying gaps to shipping solutions

What Were Looking For

• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python Go Java JavaScript TypeScript)
• Interest in building user-facing products backend systems or real-time/data-intensive applications
• Familiarity with modern web development (frontend and/or backend) APIs or system design fundamentals
• Understanding of building reliable maintainable systemsthis could include UI/UX quality API design or performance considerations
• Curiosity about LLMs AI agents or production AI systems (no prior ML experience required)
• Experience using AI-powered developer tools (e.g. Cursor Claude Code) to accelerate development workflows
• Strong proficiency in agentic coding workflowseffectively collaborating with AI tools to design implement and iterateis a strong plus
• A driver mindsetyou proactively identify problems take initiative and push work forward rather than waiting for direction
• Strong problem-solving ability and a bias toward action

What Youll Learn

• How to build and ship production-grade AI systems used in real customer environments
• How to design systems balancing model quality latency and reliability
• How AI agents are deployed evaluated and improved at scale
• How contact centers evolve from manual workflows to AI-driven operations

What Makes Cresta Different

• AI in production: Our systems operate in live contact centers not demos
• Hybrid workforce: Were defining how human and AI agents work together
• Real business impact: We directly influence revenue cost and customer experience
• Driver culture: We value people who take initiative move fast and own outcomes end-to-end
• Ownership & velocity: Engineers are trusted to ship and make decisions early

Internship Details

• Location: Toronto (remote-friendly; no in-office mandate but we encourage in-person collaboration)
• Compensation: CAD $30-50/hour
  Outstanding performers are eligible for return co-op and full-time offers well above our posted range.
  
  
• Perks:
• Lunch and dinner can be expensed (up to $25 each) while working in the office
• Well-stocked office with snacks and drinks
• Convenient downtown location near Union Station (public transit accessible)
• PTO: 4 days
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI systems in production
• Potential return offer

Why Join

At Cresta you wont just learn about AIyoull help build the systems redefining how contact centers operate. From real-time agent assist to autonomous AI agents your work will directly impact how millions of customer conversations are handled.

Past interns consistently highlight Crestas strong engineering culture and ownership-driven environment as a standout compared to their previous internship experiences. We invest in giving interns real responsibility meaningful projects and close collaboration with experienced engineers.

If you want to own real problems ship quickly and work at the frontier of applied AI youll fit right in.

Application Note

To help us find the best team match please include a brief note on the type of problems you most enjoy working on. For example:

• Backend / distributed systems / infrastructure
• Frontend / UI engineering / product experience
• Full product development (end-to-end features)
• AI / machine learning / applied LLMs
• Data / analytics / experimentation
• Or anything else youd like us to highlight

We cant guarantee specific team placement but we use this input to help guide matching wherever possible.

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