Forward Deployed Engineering Intern (AI Adoption Pod)
Carousell Group1 day ago
Singapore, SingaporeIntern
Responsibilities
- Partner with internal non-engineering teams to understand ambiguous problems and refine them through conversation and rapid prototyping.
- Build and iterate on AI-powered skills, workflows, and agents for real users.
- Choose appropriate tools and deployment approaches while weighing cost, speed, latency, security, and maintainability tradeoffs.
- Connect front-end tools to underlying infrastructure across front-end, backend/API, and data layers.
- Debug failures in production and support workflows after launch until outcomes are measurable.
- Share reusable patterns and lessons learned across the Forward Deployed Engineering pod.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write correct, working code independently.
- Working knowledge of prompting, context engineering, MCP tool/function calling, and modern AI/LLM tooling such as Claude.
- A non-trivial working GenAI output and a shipped end-to-end software project from a personal, academic, or internship experience.
- Ability to break down ambiguous, unscoped problems and independently drive solutions without a detailed specification.
- Basic understanding of cost, latency, security, and system design tradeoffs.
- Full-stack literacy across front-end, backend/API, and data layers.
- Experience debugging a real failure in a running system and building or deploying agentic workflows or tool-using agents.
- Preferred: experience maintaining a live system, exposure to multiple languages or stacks, and early product sense.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Carousell Group
Carousell Group runs a multi-category secondhand marketplace for consumers, delivered via mobile apps and web, across Greater Southeast Asia. It operates brands including Carousell, Mudah.my, Cho Tot, REFASH, Laku6, and others, and monetizes through transaction fees, advertising (Carousell Media Group), and recommerce/financing services. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company serves tens of millions of users across seven markets.