Software Engineer Intern

November 7, 2026

Remote

Intern

London, United Kingdom

Indeed

Description

Software Engineer Intern opening on the Sovereign AI Infrastructure team. The intern owns a project with hands-on mentorship from experienced engineers, building systems that make production AI agents useful, reliable, and governable in high-stakes operational environments. The work spans agentic workflows, customer ontologies, context assembly, tool interfaces, permissions, evaluations, and the tooling that turns model outputs into real operational decisions.

Responsibilities

Build production software that improves how AI systems are deployed, operated, evaluated, or monitored in customer-controlled environments
Contribute to infrastructure for agentic workflows, including tool use, context assembly, permissions, execution safety, observability, and debugging
Design and implement services, APIs, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, or developer tools that make AI systems easier to operate
Work with engineers, product teams, and customer-facing teams to turn real operational problems into durable software
Debug issues across services, deployment systems, logs, configuration, permissions, and product behaviour
Write clear, maintainable code and participate in code review with a high bar for quality
Communicate design decisions, tradeoffs, and results clearly to teammates

Requirements

Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or a similar technical field
Demonstrated interest in AI systems and agentic applications
Experience coding in Java, Python, C++, Go, Rust, JavaScript, or similar languages
Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, systems programming, backend services, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work full-time for the duration of the internship
Curiosity about how AI systems work in production, especially agentic systems that use tools and retrieve context
Grit and ownership mindset with care for getting details right and seeing work through