Software Engineering Intern — Build Automation & Cloud Tools

Cox Automotive; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineering Intern for Summer 2027. You will work on enterprise platforms, deployment pipelines, and automation across cloud environments. The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and delivering meaningful projects with mentorship.

You should be a current BA/BS student in CS or related field, with a passion for code, automation, and scalable software, and you must be authorized to work in the United States.

Qualifications

• Currently a college student pursuing a BA/BS degree in computer science or a related field, including classes related to software development, systems, networking and security.
• A passion for technology, reverse engineering and writing code to create solutions and fix problems.
• A collaborative attitude and the ability to clearly articulate thoughts and processes with both verbal and written communication in one-on-one and group settings.
• Experience with Windows and Linux systems, containers and databases.
• Experience with source code, build, deploy, orchestration and configuration management tools.
• Experience in writing code and scripts in at least one high-level programming language.
• An eye to identify and a desire to resolve insufficiencies and manual activities via automation.
• Familiarity with public cloud architecture and technologies, preferably AWS.
• Familiarity with Agile concepts and processes (Scrum and Kanban).
• An interest in building and continuously improving secure and resilient applications at scale.
• An interest in gathering data and measuring the progress on what makes applications perform.
• Familiarity with AI tools that assist in producing, testing, and automating tasks in software development and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Developing automation for infrastructure provisioning and procedures, configuration management and ongoing support processes to be used across all environments.
• Documenting new development, procedures or test plans as needed.
• Helping develop and following best practices, security and engineering standards.
• Building tools and pipelines needed to facilitate continuous integration and delivery of software to all environments.
• Automating code packaging, code deployment and configuration management processes to be used across all environments.
• Soliciting feedback from delivery and operations teams about continuous integration and delivery challenges and working with them to identify opportunities to optimize software engineering throughput and quality.
• Tracking system and service performance continuously in all environments and escalates to the appropriate team.
• Leverage AI tools to assist in productivity, testing, and automation

Skills

Source code tools

Build and deploy

Orchestration tools

Automation

Programming experience

Scripting languages

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Containers

CI/CD tools

Linux

Windows

Databases

Job description

Cox Automotive in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineering Intern for Summer 2027. You will work on enterprise platforms, deployment pipelines, and automation across cloud environments. The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and delivering meaningful projects with mentorship.

You should be a current BA/BS student in CS or related field, with a passion for code, automation, and scalable software, and you must be authorized to work in the United States.