Internship

About Plix

Plix is a seed-stage startup with Stanford roots, supported by Samsara, Verkada, and Sequoia Capital. We are building the world’s first intelligent body cameras to provide real-time situational alerts to improve safety, security, and operational efficiency.

Position Overview

As an engineering intern, you will be a part of architecting, implementing, and deploying our vision. We want you to be comfortable with quick experimentation, collaborative design, and turning vision into product. Start date is flexible.

Responsibilities

• Iterate with our founding team on the design and implementation of development processes for the SaaS and Machine Learning infrastructure solution, and subsequent iterations of the software
• Debug, improve, and optimize Plix’s software and infrastructure to enable a reliable, performant, and scalable software ecosystem
• Help to define and champion engineering standards and processes
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and AI research and migrate to the latest infrastructure types when needed

Requirements

• Exceptional programming skills in Python
• Capable of working with a high level of autonomy and responsibility in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives
• Excellent communication skills and ability to turn vision into running software
• Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, and holding yourself and others to high standards
• A passion for collaboration and working with teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with interfacing with secure/private customer data, especially video
• Experience working with computer vision libraries like OpenCV and FFmpeg
• Experience with deployment of GPU backend systems and infrastructure
• Experience deploying and managing TensorFlow or Torch models at scale
• Advanced machine learning knowledge for training and building new models, especially related to large language models (LLMs)
• Prior management experience and/or interest to grow into a leadership role