
Root Access builds AI agents that help hardware engineering teams design, program, and integrate complex embedded systems. Their first agent, Seb, combines machine learning models with embedded-systems expertise to act as a co-engineer for firmware development, system integration, and hardware validation. The company operates as an applied AI lab and delivers its technology via developer-facing tools and SaaS-style agent services for engineering teams. Root Access focuses on customers in robotics, automation, and embedded-product development and plans additional specialized agents beyond Seb.

Root Access builds AI agents that help hardware engineering teams design, program, and integrate complex embedded systems. Their first agent, Seb, combines machine learning models with embedded-systems expertise to act as a co-engineer for firmware development, system integration, and hardware validation. The company operates as an applied AI lab and delivers its technology via developer-facing tools and SaaS-style agent services for engineering teams. Root Access focuses on customers in robotics, automation, and embedded-product development and plans additional specialized agents beyond Seb.
This is a paid in-person spring internship that requires 16 hours/week commitment. Must be based in NYC or near. Our office is located in Midtown Manhattan.
Company Overview: Root Access is an applied AI company building developer tools for embedded engineers. We help hardware teams program mankind’s most important machines across industrial, defense, automotive, and more.
Role Overview We’re looking for an Machine Learning Engineer Intern who’s excited to help build the future of AI-assisted development tooling. You’ll act as an internal beta user, train and evaluate real models, and help us validate AI-accelerated workflows. You’ll also contribute to ML projects across dataset preparation, model experimentation, benchmarking, and exploring new frameworks or inference toolchains.
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