Forward Deployed Engineering Intern (AI Adoption Pod)
Carousell Group4 hours 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.
- Evaluate deployment options and make cost, latency, security, architecture, and maintainability tradeoffs.
- Connect front-end tools with underlying infrastructure across front-end, backend/API, and data layers.
- Debug failures in production and maintain deployed workflows after launch.
- Measure whether solutions create meaningful improvements and share reusable patterns across the 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, with a personally built non-trivial output.
- A track record of shipping a real end-to-end software project through a personal, academic, or internship experience.
- Ability to independently break down ambiguous, unscoped problems and drive solutions without a detailed specification.
- Basic understanding of cost, latency, and security tradeoffs in system design.
- Full-stack literacy across front-end, backend/API, and data layers.
- Some experience debugging a real failure in a running system and building and deploying agentic or tool-using workflows.
- Preferred qualifications include maintaining a live system, exposure to multiple languages or stacks, and early product sense for explaining technical tradeoffs to non-engineers.
Benefits
- Preferred availability is full-time from October 2026 through June 2027, followed by part-time October–December 2026 plus full-time January–June 2027, followed by full-time January–June 2027 only.
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.