Tech Foundations Engineer Intern — AI Tools & SDLC Learning

sunlife; Waterford; Hybrid; EUR 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Job summary

Sun Life in Waterford, Ireland offers a Software Engineering internship in a hybrid role. You will gain hands‑on experience across the SDLC, contribute to client‑facing applications, and learn with guidance from experienced engineers.

You’ll explore QA, stability, maintenance and practical AI‑assisted development, with mentors helping you improve code quality and learning outcomes for your degree program.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Academic projects or personal coding projects are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist in design, development, support and testing of basic technology solutions under supervision.
• Learn SDLC stages and contribute to platform development under guidance.
• Practice writing clean, testable code under mentorship.
• Contribute to software verification plans and documentation.
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging existing systems.
• Observe and participate in software deployment processes.
• Use approved AI tools to support research, draft code, and validation.

Skills

Java

SQL

AI tools

Prompting

Testing

Documentation

JIRA

Git

Education

Currently pursuing a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

IntelliJ

AWS

Git

JIRA

Job description

Sun Life in Waterford, Ireland offers a Software Engineering internship in a hybrid role. You will gain hands‑on experience across the SDLC, contribute to client‑facing applications, and learn with guidance from experienced engineers.

You’ll explore QA, stability, maintenance and practical AI‑assisted development, with mentors helping you improve code quality and learning outcomes for your degree program.