About the role
About Wasmer
Wasmer is building the universal execution layer for software and AI.
Developers should be able to run any application, AI agent, or generated code instantly, securely, and anywhere. Without relying on containers, virtual machines, or cloud-specific infrastructure.
We use WebAssembly and WASIX to create lightweight, sandboxed environments with:
- Strong isolation
- Near-native performance
- Near-instant cold starts
- Portability across local machines, servers, browsers, and the edge
For Summer 2027, we are looking for infrastructure engineering interns to help us build this system.
You will work on the infrastructure required to safely execute millions of applications and AI workloads, including runtime internals, distributed scheduling, networking, storage, snapshotting, observability, security, language compatibility, and developer tooling.
This is not a typical application development internship.
You will work close to the operating system, runtime, compiler, and distributed systems layers, solving problems normally handled by container runtimes, serverless platforms, cloud providers, and hyperscale infrastructure teams.
What You Might Work On
- Improve the Wasmer runtime and WASIX system interfaces
- Build secure sandboxes for untrusted and AI-generated code
- Reduce application cold starts through memory snapshots and runtime optimizations
- Design distributed scheduling and workload-placement systems
- Build networking primitives for isolated applications and AI agents
- Improve language and framework compatibility
- Build observability and debugging tools for distributed workloads
- Optimize storage and virtual filesystem performance
Interns at Wasmer own meaningful infrastructure projects from design through production deployment.
