Software Development Engineer Intern, Backend

Smytten; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 167,000 - 446,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid internship

Job summary

Smytten is offering a paid internship with PulseAI Research to work on backend systems. The role focuses on building APIs, microservices, and AI workflow integrations, including language models, embeddings, and data sources.

You will contribute to RAG, retrieval, caching, and safety checks while supporting research and analytics products. Candidates should be in late-stage studies in BE/BTech/ME/MTech/MCA or equivalent and have backend development skills with Python/Java/Go/Node.js.

Qualifications

• Pre-final or final-year BE, BTech, ME, MTech, MCA or equivalent students may apply.
• Understand algorithms, operating systems, databases and backend development.
• Relevant technologies include Python, Java, Go, Node.js, REST or gRPC, SQL and cloud applications.
• AI frameworks, distributed systems, Kafka, Redis, containers and cloud platforms are useful additional experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop APIs, microservices and asynchronous processes for research and analytics products.
• Connect language models, data sources and enterprise applications through AI workflows.
• Support RAG, embeddings, retrieval, caching, evaluations and AI safeguards.
• Build systems for structured and unstructured information, including surveys, documents and conversations.
• Address tenant isolation, access controls, authentication, security and audit records.
• Work on queues, retries, scheduling and data lineage with engineering and research teams.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Node.js

REST

gRPC

SQL

Cloud applications

Algorithms

Operating systems

Backend development

Education

BE/BTech/M.E./M.Tech/MCA or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Docker/Containers

Cloud platforms

Job description

About the role:

Work on backend systems for PulseAI Research, a consumer intelligence platform powered by Smytten.

The internship is paid, but the employer post gives no stipend amount.

What you'll work on:

• Develop APIs, microservices and asynchronous processes for research and analytics products.


• Connect language models, data sources and enterprise applications through AI workflows.


• Support RAG, embeddings, retrieval, caching, evaluations and AI safeguards.


• Build systems for structured and unstructured information, including surveys, documents and conversations.


• Address tenant isolation, access controls, authentication, security and audit records.


• Work on queues, retries, scheduling and data lineage with engineering and research teams.

What we're looking for:

• Pre-final or final-year BE, BTech, ME, MTech, MCA or equivalent students may apply.


• Understand algorithms, operating systems, databases and backend development.


• Relevant technologies include Python, Java, Go, Node.js, REST or gRPC, SQL and cloud applications.


• AI frameworks, distributed systems, Kafka, Redis, containers and cloud platforms are useful additional experience.

Good to know:

• Availability for a full-time internship lasting four to six months is required.


• At least four months is needed for consideration for a possible permanent offer.


• Projects, open-source work or earlier internships strengthen an application.