Founding AI Intern

AI Product Engineer, Intern (Summer 2025)Location: On-site in Union Square, Somerville, MAPay: Competitive (expect 40+ hour weeks, real ownership)Company: Cyvl – one of the fastest-growing AI + hardware startups in Boston
What if your summer internship felt like a founder bootcamp?We’re Cyvl—a scrappy, fast-moving startup helping 300+ cities around the world (including Boston, Atlanta, and NYC) fix roads and sidewalks faster using cutting-edge sensors and AI. We’re scaling fast, gearing up for a Series A this year, and we need a beast of an intern to build AI-powered tools, help us move faster, and leave a legacy.
The Role:This internship is for someone who’s technical, wildly curious, and obsessed with building. You’ll work directly with the CEO to solve high-leverage problems across the company using AI and no-code tools. You'll build internal tools, pitch ideas, own projects, and be in the trenches every day. It's a bit product, a bit ops, a bit growth, a bit chaos—and 100% impact.

What You'll Do

• Design and build internal AI agents + tools to supercharge our sales, ops, and exec teams
• Build and launch an AI-powered agent for our sales team (think SDR assistant)
• Prototype scrappy apps using GPT-4, Lovable, LangChain, Make, Zapier, and other platforms
• Handle strategic side-quests like PR research + outreach, slide decks, media briefs
• Knock out key to-dos for the CEO—building decks, digging into data, solving pain points
• Help us 10x productivity across the company with AI-powered workflows
• Learn fast. Ship fast. Break stuff. Fix it. Repeat.

Who You Are

• High-agency and hands-on—you figure things out before asking how
• Comfortable writing code and/or hacking together tools with no-code platforms
• Obsessed with AI: you’ve tried dozens of tools and have opinions
• Communicates clearly, confidently, and can operate in high-stakes environments
• Comfortable in a startup: no hand-holding, no silos, no fluff
• Ready to work hard, learn fast, and make a name for yourself

Bonus Points:

• Built your own AI tool, app, or agent
• Experience with GPT-4, Claude, Lovable, LangChain, Zapier, Make, Retool, Bubble, etc.
• You’ve written content, pitched media, or worked on PR in any form
• You’re that person who already has a launch list for your first startup

Why this is the best internship in Boston: By the end of the summer, you’ll have: ✅ Built and shipped real AI products ✅ Sat side-by-side with a founders during a Series A raise ✅ Learned how to operate like a future founder ✅ Made your mark on a rocket ship company scaling across the U.S. ✅ Worked hard, played hard, and made lifelong friends doing it ✅ Proven yourself for a potential long-term role post-internship—including full-time offers