Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern M/F
Alice & Bob3 days ago
Paris, FranceIntern
Responsibilities
- Deliver end-to-end ABDB platform features across the UI, REST API, business logic, and Python client.
- Translate research-team requests into specified, tested, documented, and production-ready features.
- Design and implement write-capable MCP tools with validation, permissions, and audit mechanisms for safe agent participation.
- Modernize data ingestion from fileserver-based flows to API-based uploads and maintain integrations with Starboard, catographer, anb-exp, and simulation pipelines.
- Optimize queries and data access for high-load cloud usage and improve observability, automated testing, and CI.
- Participate in releases, user communication, code reviews, technical discussions, documentation, and Starboard and GENCI deliverables.
Requirements
- Be pursuing a final-year Master’s degree or engineering-school diploma (Bac+5) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Be proficient in English; French is a plus.
- Have previous internship experience or significant personal or academic projects in full-stack or backend development.
- Have solid Python programming skills and familiarity with a backend and/or frontend web framework.
- Understand relational databases, SQL, and data modeling.
- Have working knowledge of Git, code review practices, and automated testing.
- Show interest in LLM tooling such as MCP, agents, evaluation harnesses, and AI-assisted development.
- Show interest in scientific or R&D data and in understanding user needs.
- Be able to work autonomously, communicate clearly, ask for help early, and maintain rigor and reliability.
Benefits
- One day off per month.
- Half of transportation costs covered according to French law.
- Meal vouchers through Swile and access to a fully equipped, regularly stocked kitchen.
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, international team on quantum-computing R&D at a French startup.
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About Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob develops fault-tolerant quantum computers based on superconducting “cat qubits” for research labs and industry exploring practical quantum algorithms. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Paris with an office in Boston, this privately held company designs and fabricates its own processors and operates a prototyping cleanroom in Île-de-France. Its work spans quantum hardware, nanofabrication, and control software.