Research Intern - Agent Telemetry & Network Behavior

Research Intern – Agent Telemetry & Network Behavior

Internship · 10–12 Weeks   ·   San Francisco, CA  

About CompFly AI

CompFly is building the security layer for the autonomous AI era; real-time defense for AI agents that act, decide, and operate on behalf of humans inside enterprise environments. As autonomous agents become the new compute primitive, CompFly ensures enterprises can trust what those agents do. We are a small team that moves fast and builds things that matter.

The Role

Autonomous AI agents generate rich, complex behavioral signals: tool call sequences, inter-agent messages, API request graphs, credential usage patterns, and decision traces. We are looking for a research intern to help us define what normal agent behavior looks like at the network and systems level and build the detection primitives that fire when it breaks down.

This role sits at the intersection of network security, behavioral analysis, and AI systems research. You will instrument agent frameworks, analyze telemetry data, develop behavioral signatures, and prototype detection logic for CompFly's real-time threat engine. There is no established playbook here, you will be doing original work.

What You'll Work On

• Instrument AI agent runtimes to capture behavioral signals, tool call graphs, and inter-agent message flows
• Build statistical baselines and anomaly detection signatures for suspicious agent behaviors
• Develop a threat taxonomy for autonomous agents
• Analyze agent communication topologies using graph-based methods to surface coordination threats

What We're Looking For

• Currently enrolled in a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go, comfortable building instrumentation, parsers, data pipelines, and analysis tooling.
• Background or coursework in network security, behavioral analysis, anomaly detection, or systems security.
• Comfort working with high-volume structured event log data.
• Curiosity about how autonomous AI systems behave at the network and systems layer — and how those behaviors can be exploited or defended.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity in a research-stage problem space.

Nice to Have

• Experience with network traffic analysis, SIEM platforms, EDR telemetry, or log analytics pipelines.
• Prior work with LLM agent frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, or AI system observability.
• CTF experience, especially in network forensics, cloud security, or application security categories.

What You'll Gain

You will produce original research on a problem that has no established solutions yet behavioral security for autonomous AI agents. Your telemetry instrumentation and detection signatures will feed directly into CompFly's production threat engine. Strong interns will have the opportunity to co-author technical reports and are considered priority candidates for full-time engineering roles.

Compensation: $40-50 per hour

How to Apply:

E-mail resume at careers@compfly.ai