AI & Fullstack Intern

About Akdo

Akdo, a Munich-based pre-seed tech start-up, provides a learning platform that delivers AI-driven, hyper-personalized e-learning courses for medium-sized to large companies. These courses are tailored to customer needs and employee skill levels, helping businesses scale their health, safety & environment operations while enhancing individual skills. We are looking for an AI & Fullstack Intern to support our dynamic team and contribute to the development of our AI platform.

What you'll be working on

You will be working closely with our Co-Founder Jonas to enhance the data & AI layer in our product. Based on your strengths, there is a broad range of topics you will be working on:

• 🤖 AI & LLMOps
  • LLM Implementation: Integrate and optimize the usage of agentic LLMs operations for training creation.
  • Quality Management: Implement quality assurance and testing frameworks to deliver AI-Result with enterprise-ready accuracy.
  • Data Management: Implement RAG and data pipelines to collect datasets for better results and future fine-tuning.
• 🛠️ Backend & DevOps
  • Scalable Architecture: Design and develop backend structures and APIs capable of supporting multiple customers.
  • System Architecture: Contribute to critical decisions shaping our robust B2B SaaS application.
  • Performance Optimization: Apply strong software development skills to create high-performance, scalable solutions.
  • Domain Modeling: Define and refine the domain model and business logic for our complex enterprise app.
• 💻 Frontend
  • Integrating AI Agents into our client: Be able to integrate the AI features you built into our client, so customers can use it.
• 🚀 Your Own Ideas

  We embrace proactivity! If you have your own ideas or want to contribute in unique ways, we're all ears. Let's innovate together!

Our Tech Stack

As passionate engineers, we're excited about our tools:

• Frontend: Tailwind, React, and Next.js, ShadCN for responsive and dynamic user interfaces.
• Type Safety: Prisma ORM and NextJS server functions for seamless type safety from database to frontend.
• Backend: PostgreSQL, GitHub and Vercel providing a rock-solid foundation.
• LLMs: Azure AI Suite, AWS Bedrock & Google Vertex, tracked in Langfuse and hot-swapped via ai-sdk.
• Flexibility: Our tech stack evolves with our needs. We welcome input from new hires on tools they're passionate about.

Requirements

• Experience in working with Language Models for complex tasks.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the latest trends in the AI and LLM world.
• Keen to improve our "Context Engineering" Layer.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code with thorough testing for seamless collaboration.
• Excellent prompting skills.
• Fluent in English, able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively.
• Full-time availability.
• Plus: Experience in developing fullstack web apps, ideally with React/NextJS/CSS/Typescript & PostgreSQL - but deep experience with other tech-stacks is also great.

Why work at Akdo?

• Help us to make training in enterprise fun.
• Receive mentorship from an experienced founding team: serial entrepreneurs and founders who have worked for/with the fastest-growing tech companies.
• Get one-to-one coaching from an experienced CTO.
• Competitive pay for a full-time intern position with full remote work options.
• Based on your performance, there is the possibility to transition to a full-time position.

Remote Working

We embrace a fully-remote work culture with regular gatherings. Before applying, please consider whether you love working from home for a large part of your time.

Recruiting Process

• You send us your application.
• First Introduction with Jonas to get to know Akdo.
• We'll do a (remote) live coding session to check for a technical fit (a practical challenge and you can use all your favourite AI coding tools).
• Deep Dive with our founders Jonas and Max to get a feeling for the team and the tasks ahead of you.
• Offer - the start of your journey with Akdo.

❗Please provide a link to your GitHub Repo and relevant work you are proud of in your application! Applications without relevant work samples will not be considered.

Key skills/competency

• LLMOps
• AI Agent Development
• Fullstack Web Development
• React/Next.js
• PostgreSQL
• Scalable Architecture
• Data Management (RAG/pipelines)
• Clean Code & Testing
• Prompt Engineering
• TypeScript