Internship / Master Thesis: Quality Gate for AI-Assisted Delivery
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America16 hours ago
Pully, SwitzerlandIntern
Responsibilities
- Survey established standards and tools for software supply-chain security, provenance, policy-as-code, and AI documentation.
- Define risk classifications and the controls required for each classification.
- Specify a provenance model for AI-generated work, tools, models, approvers, commits, pull requests, and agent logs.
- Define human sign-off points and machine-checkable acceptance criteria for code, tests, ADRs, infrastructure-as-code, and documentation.
- Implement the quality gate as a CLI and CI job with agent self-checks and a blocking pull-request check running in under three minutes.
- Create signed release gate records, manage reviewed exceptions with expiry dates, and evaluate false positives, runtime, and developer friction on a real ELCA codebase.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering at EPFL or ETH Zürich.
- Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, or Java.
- Fluency with Git and CI/CD systems including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure Pipelines.
- Interest in supply-chain security, static analysis, policy-as-code, or developer tooling.
- Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor.
- Ability to turn standards or regulations into implementable engineering specifications.
- English fluency; French or German is a plus.
- Latest academic transcripts must be included with the application.
Benefits
- Six-month internship or master thesis starting in February 2027.
- Collaborative and multicultural environment across international sites.
- Access to ELCA’s agentic engineering platform, including open-weight models on ELCA infrastructure.
- Work planned for inclusion in ELCA’s 2027 delivery standard.
- Internal hackathons, Brownbag sessions, and monthly After-Works.
About Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a U.S. Christian denomination that coordinates churchwide programs, theological resources, and ministries for congregations, synods, and partners. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Chicago, it serves about 3.3 million members in more than 9,000 worshiping communities across all 50 states and the Caribbean, funded primarily by congregational benevolence, donations, and endowments, and operating initiatives in leadership development, education, disaster response, and global mission.