Forward Deployed Engineering Intern (AI Adoption Pod)
Carousell Group11 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeIntern
Responsibilities
- Partner with internal non-engineering teams to clarify ambiguous problems through conversation and rapid prototyping.
- Build and iterate on AI-powered skills, workflows, and tool-using agents for real users.
- Choose appropriate tools and deployment approaches while balancing cost, speed, latency, security, and maintainability.
- Connect front-end tools with underlying infrastructure across front-end, backend/API, and data layers.
- Debug failures in production and resolve issues affecting real users.
- Track solutions through launch and ensure outcomes are measurable and reusable where possible.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write correct, working code independently.
- Working knowledge of GenAI primitives including prompting, context engineering, MCP tool/function calling, and modern AI/LLM tooling such as Claude.
- A shipped end-to-end project from an academic project, personal project, or internship.
- Ability to independently break down and solve ambiguous, unscoped problems.
- Basic understanding of cost, latency, security, and system-design tradeoffs.
- Full-stack literacy across front-end, backend/API, and data layers.
- Some experience debugging a real failure in a running system.
- Experience building and deploying agentic workflows or tool-using agents.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a live system used by others is a plus.
- Exposure to multiple languages or technology stacks and early product sense are preferred.
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.