AI-Agent Development Co-op

Job description

Number of Position(s): 1 Duration: 6 - 12 months Dates: January 2027 - June 2027 - December 2027 Location: Onsite in San Jose, CA Educational Requirements Currently a candidate for a master's degree or PhD in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence / machine learning, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field with an accredited school in the US. What You Will Learn: This Co-Op position is an engineering-facing experience building AI agents for the optical test organization. You will gain practical knowledge in: - AI Agent Design: How to design, prompt, evaluate, and harden agent workflows (skills, tools, and guardrails) that engineers actually use in daily ODVT work. - Tooling and Integrations: Connecting agents to engineering systems - issue tracking, documentation, source control, and test data - so they fetch facts instead of inventing them. - Test Engineering Context: How Optical Design Verification Testing works: test plans, test cases and lab data - Software Craft: Python development, version control, structured documentation, tests, and iterating on tools from engineer feedback. - Fiber Communication Exposure: High-speed coherent optical products, DSP concepts, and how test data is used to judge product performance and reliability.