AI-Agent Development Co-op

Number of Position(s): 1 Duration: 6 - 12 months Dates: January 2027 - June 2027 - December 2027 Location: Onsite in San Jose, CA

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.

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.