AI Engineering Intern

AI Engineering Intern (Backend + LLM Systems)

🚀 About NovaChat:

NovaChat is building AI technology inside a $9.1B emerging market where the opportunities are untouched and the engineering challenges are brand-new. We’re building the engines that power real-time AI conversations, PPV logic, personalization layers, vector embeddings, and multi-step reasoning flows for creators.

You will be contributing directly to systems that creators rely on daily.

This is not a research internship, it’s a deployment internship. You will be in production environments with real users, real edge cases, and real constraints.

🔧 What You Will Work On:

You’ll collaborate closely with our engineering team to:

• Improve backend APIs powering AI chat flows
• Work with LLM prompts, vector databases, embeddings, RAG, and context optimizations
• Debug live issues in our QA and Production environments
• Improve speed, latency, and concurrency across chat pipelines
• Optimize caching layers and user-specific state handling
• Maintain and build upon Node.js backend services
• Contribute to PRs that ship within days to real creators

Every task you work on will make our AI more human, more reliable, and more scalable.

🧠 Tech Stack:

• Node.js
• Express / Fastify
• PostgreSQL
• Redis / Caching layers
• Pinecone (Vector DB)
• OpenAI / Grok / LLM APIs
• GitHub, PR workflow, QA → Production pipeline

You do not need prior LLM experience.
We will teach you everything you need if you’re strong logically and curious.

🌱 What You’ll Gain:

You will walk away with the type of experience students spend years trying to get:

• Hands-on LLM engineering experience
• Real backend production experience (rare for students)
• Involvement in debugging live systems with real users
• Exposure to AI prompt engineering + system design
• Knowledge of scalable backend architecture
• GitHub PR workflow, CI/CD readiness, QA testing
• A portfolio of real shipped features and contributions

If you want to become an AI / backend engineer, this is the internship that accelerates your path dramatically.

⭐ Ideal Candidate:

You’d be a great fit if you:

• Love solving technical problems
• Are deeply curious about AI + backend systems
• Communicate well and don’t wait to be told what to do
• Enjoy debugging + learning how systems break
• Want real engineering experience, not mock projects

🎓 Requirements:

• Must be enrolled in a university
• Basic experience with Node.js or Python
• Familiarity with APIs + Git/GitHub
• Ability to learn fast and work independently
• 15–20 hours/week preferred

💼 Compensation:

• Unpaid to start
• Strong opportunity for a paid continuation depending on performance
• Fully remote
• Flexible hours

📩 How to Apply:

• Submit via Handshake with your:
• Resume
• GitHub link (highly preferred)