Software Engineer Interns AI-first

Location: Pune (work from office mandatory)

Duration: 6 months

Type: Paid internship with market-aligned stipend

Number of positions: 2-4

Start Date: Rolling

Qualification: 

• Four-year engineering degree (Computer Science, IT)
• Final-year engineering students with exceptional academic performance and/or notable extra-curricular achievements in technology, competitions, innovation, or open-source contributions are strongly encouraged to apply.

Internship is full-time. Final year project work/credit can be supported if your institute requires it.

Why this role:

UpThink is building and improving products with AI at the core. We are looking for interns who ship fast, run experiments, and solve real business problems. Your personality, curiosity, and bias for action will matter as much, and probably more, than your code.

What you will do:

• Prototype, test, and ship AI features that improve existing UpThink products.
• Explore new product ideas from zero to a working demo in days, not weeks.
• Build and enhance full-stack solutions: from front-end interfaces to back-end APIs and database integrations.
• Turn messy business problems into clear problem statements and scrappy solutions.
• Own small vertical slices end to end: define success, measure it, iterate.
• Work with SMEs, Operations, and Sales to validate whether your solution actually helps users.

You are a strong fit if you:

• Are enthusiastic about using AI every day. You try things, break things, and learn fast.
• Prefer shipping something small today over planning something perfect tomorrow.
• Communicate clearly. You can explain tradeoffs and ask for help early.
• Care about users, reliability, privacy, and security.

Minimum Skills:

• Proficient in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js + React).
• Hands-on with at least one LLM stack or framework (OpenAI/Claude APIs, LangChain, LlamaIndex, vector databases).
• Basic database skills: MySQL or PostgreSQL (schema design, queries, joins) and familiarity with at least one NoSQL database (e.g., MongoDB).
• Can consume and build REST APIs.
• Comfortable with Git, version control workflows, and basic cloud hosting (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Basic data handling: Pandas, CSV/JSON processing.
• Familiar with evaluation basics: defining simple metrics, building test harnesses.

Good to have:

• React or another lightweight UI framework for quick front-end builds.
• FastAPI, Flask, or Node backends.
• Experience with embeddings, function calling, and AI orchestration.
• Basics of Docker, CI, and cloud deploys.

How we work:

• Weekly planning with clear targets. Daily async updates.
• Short cycles. Build, demo, measure, iterate.
• Code reviews that focus on correctness, clarity, and speed to value.
• You get a mentor and direct access to stakeholders.

What will you learn:

• Turning business needs into AI-first solutions that survive contact with users.
• Evaluation and safety basics for production AI features.
• Product thinking, rapid prototyping, and pragmatic engineering.

How to apply:

Share your resume, GitHub or portfolio, and a small AI demo (please share a link) you are proud of. Include a 5-line note on what you built, why, and the result (document preferred). Add your earliest start date and availability.

You can email the above to tanaya.adulkar@upthink.com.