AI Engineering Intern

At Light, we’re redefining how software is built, how it’s delivered, and how it works. We’re building organic software that heals itself, adapts to the user and the business, and learns and gets better as it’s used. Our starting point is finance, with companies including Legora, Lovable, and Fuse Energy already running on Light. We’re building towards a platform that understands how each business operates and evolves with it.

As an AI Engineering Intern, you’ll help make that happen by building systems that identify mistakes, improve their own behaviour, and prove those improvements work. You’ll work on the agents, models, and infrastructure that turn organic software into something customers can rely on.

Who this is for:

• Currently studying at University of Oxford or University of Cambridge.
• A silver medal or higher at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) or International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), or an equivalent level of achievement in another highly competitive endeavour.

If you’re applying with an equivalent achievement, explain the competition or field, your result, and the standard required to achieve it. If you’re at Oxford/Cambridge and you don’t have an equivalent level of achievement, we encourage you to not apply. Our bar for internships at Light is high.

You will need the curiosity to explore unfamiliar areas, the willingness to go the extra mile to get things right, the discipline to test your assumptions, and the persistence to keep going when your first approach does not work.

What you’ll work on:

• You’ll have access to our repositories, real engineering problems, and an internal coding agent that already opens pull requests against production code. Your work will help make these systems more capable and reliable.
• Help agents learn from their work by shaping the process, catching misleading lessons, and testing whether new instructions improve performance.
• Train and deploy LLM and ML models, fine-tune SoA LLM models, run experiments, compare results against the existing pipeline, and establish whether a model is ready for production.
• Leverage ML tools to enhance the ability of our Agents via K-means, t-sne, PCA, random forest trees, etc.
• Build Agents with full end-to-end ownership, providing pre-emptive support for the self-healing pipeline, fixing issues, and communicating with customers.
• Build evaluations and review tools, defining what a correct answer looks like, creating tests that expose failures, and helping catch poor output before it reaches customers.
• Own projects through delivery, scoping the problem, building the solution, debugging regressions, and following through until the customer can rely on what you’ve shipped.

You’ll work alongside exceptional colleagues.

What else we’re looking for:

• Strong programming ability demonstrated through something you’ve built beyond coursework or tutorials: a model, agent, tool, or application that does useful work.
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling, such as LLM APIs, agent frameworks, model fine-tuning, or automated workflows.
• A habit of investigating why a system failed and testing whether your fix addresses the cause.
• Clear thinking and the ability to explain your decisions, including what you tried and why it didn’t work.
• Open-source contributions, deployed models, and experience building evaluation pipelines are a plus.

How we’ll measure success:

Your work should produce measurable improvements: more correct agent-generated changes, better model accuracy, fewer failures reaching users, or tools the team continues to use. You’ll help define those measures and use them to assess what you build.

What you’ll get:

• Internship compensation above the standard market rate.
• A role based in our London office, working alongside the product and engineering team.
• Ownership from your first day, with a path to shipping work into production.

Light is an equal opportunity employer.