Intern, AI Engineering

Location:Denver CO (3 days a week at our INDUSTRY RiNo workspace)

Time Commitment & Pay

12-16 weeks; 15-24 hours per week

$19 - $25/hr

About 85SIXTY:

For over 15 years 85SIXTY has been helping clients transform the way they reach acquire and engage with their customers through an integrated combination of data technology cross-channel strategies and creative thinking. Some might call us a full-service digital consultancy but we like to think of ourselves as a partner that can both drive strategy and orchestrate delivery. Founded in 2010 by a veteran in retail eCommerce and digital 85SIXTY was built around a consultative high-touch approach that allows us to work across a broad spectrum of areas to increase our value to our customers. We are supporting todays forward-thinking brands in their journey towards growth whether that be financially operationally and/or strategically. Solving whatever is thrown our way and translating it into simple solutions is at the core of 85SIXTY. We are looking for team members who fit that ethos.

Responsibilities:

Product: Were building an AI platform that empowers marketers to optimize their investments. This application sits at the intersection of machine learning deployment data engineering and foundational AI models.

Daily Workflow: Youll jump into an early-stage codebase ship features that matter and see your work impact decisions at household-name brands in Travel & Hospitality and Outdoors.

• Build & Ship: new product surfaces in TypeScript/React () and Python micro-services.
• Prototype & Integrate: RAG / MPC workflows and custom ML models; help evaluate model quality.
• Wrangle data from BigQuery Cloud Functions and vector stores to power AI features.
• Write clean Docs so the team can move fast with confidence.
• Learn: pick up whatever tech and frameworks you needfrom Cloud Run to sklearn and ML ops.

What Youll Learn:

• Building production apps that combine real-time digital-marketing data with GenAI.
• Best practices for prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation and tool creation.
• The business side of advertising tech: multi-touch attribution media mix modeling and performance KPIs.

Desired Qualifications:

• Pursuing (or recently completed) a CS Data Science or related degree.
• Comfortable in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript; youve shipped a project (school hackathon or personal) that uses an LLM API or open-source model.
• Curious about marketing tech and motivated to learn what you dont know.
• Strong communication skills; you like explaining your approach and learning from feedback.

Bonus points for experience with: Vercel Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery Cloud Run Vertex AI) Neon or anything e-commerce / ad-tech (Google Analytics Google Ads etc.)

Perks & Benefits:

• Flexible schedule for classes.
• Dedicated mentor weekly 1:1s; chance to demo your work to agency leadership and clients.
• Access to internal workshops certifications and conferences.

Compensation Disclaimer:

Compensation Range: $19-25/hr. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate including and not limited to job-related knowledge level of relevant experience education skills and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). 85SIXTY reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

EEO Statement:

85SIXTY is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion marital status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.

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