[Hiring] Agentic Systems Engineer Intern @Phygtl

Role Description

You’ll join the team building Vyry, a mobile app that helps students meet in real life through short, coordinated campus quests. Right now, our focus is Quest Participation optimization: keeping peers on the quest screen while they coordinate via chat, voice, and AR Meet, without state glitches, drop-offs, or broken realtime behavior. This role is not about “building chatbots.” It’s about shipping realtime intelligence inside a live social product, where state correctness, latency, and user trust matter.

What You’ll Work On

• Designing context-aware quest logic (physical + social + temporal signals)
• Detecting stall or drop-off conditions during coordination
• Suggesting structured micro-actions that increase completion probability
• Instrumenting evaluation loops tied to measurable behavioral outcomes
• Shipping production-facing components

You will operate on top of existing real-time systems — not rebuild infrastructure.

Qualifications

• A strong computer science or engineering student
• Someone who has shipped real systems (GitHub required)
• Comfortable reasoning about state transitions and edge cases
• Curious about AI systems beyond simple prompt usage
• Able to move from idea → working prototype quickly

Requirements

• Design a simple state-aware workflow
• Think through failure modes
• Explain tradeoffs (latency, cost, reliability)
• Tie technical decisions to measurable outcomes

• Bonus if you’ve built:
• Agentic workflows
• Multiplayer or event-driven systems
• Evaluation pipelines for AI systems
• Side projects used by real users

How We Evaluate

• Systems clarity (state + failure thinking)
• Execution speed
• Ownership
• Depth over pedigree

Benefits

• Work on a Real Behavioral Problem. You won’t optimize clicks. You’ll design systems that influence real-world human coordination and identity formation.
• This is AI applied to physical behavior — not interface optimization.
• Ship Systems That Matter. Your work will tie directly to:
• IRL Quest Completion Rate
• D30 Retention
• You won’t build experiments that disappear. You’ll ship components used by live campus communities.
• Learn From Operators Who’ve Built at Scale. You’ll work with the founding team, engineers and researchers from:
• Founder DNA
• Roblox (LLM + search systems)
• Niantic (AR + real-world coordination)
• Stanford / Berkeley / MIT / CMU
• Expect depth, not hand-holding.
• Operate in a High-Bar, Low-Bureaucracy Environment. We value:
• Meritocracy over pedigree
• Shipped systems over slide decks
• Clear thinking over buzzwords
• Ownership comes early. Responsibility scales with performance.
• Build a Rare Skill Set. You’ll gain experience at the intersection of:
• Agentic AI systems
• Real-time coordination
• Behavioral metrics
• Spatial computing
• Few internships operate at this boundary.

Compensation & Structure

• Competitive compensation
• Flexible remote structure
• FT 3 months or PT 6 months
• High ownership, small team

Apply

• CV
• GitHub
• A concise architecture walkthrough of one system you built
• One failure you debugged (what broke, why, what changed)
• A short note (≤300 words) on how you’d increase IRL Quest Completion by 15%

We review for depth, not buzzwords.