Forward Deployed Engineer Intern

**THE ROLE** Opptra is an AI-first company helping international brands expand into Asia — across India, GCC, and SEA — through franchising, licensing, and inventory-led partnerships. We move fast, build with intent, and run lean. You'll embed directly with our Forward Deployed Engineers — the team that sits at the intersection of business problems and AI infrastructure. FDEs don't take tickets. They own a business outcome, figure out the system to solve it, and build it. As an intern, you'll work alongside an FDE on a live workstream (catalogue automation, O2C processing, performance marketing, or pricing) and go from discovery to shipped code. If you do well, we want to keep you. **WHAT YOU'LL DO: IN 1 Year** * Work on a real agentic workstream — not a sandbox project. Your code will run in production. * Help design and build LLM-powered workflows: prompt engineering, tool use, output structuring, eval loops. * Write Python scripts and pipelines that connect APIs, process marketplace data, and trigger business actions. * Build lightweight internal tools — dashboards, alert systems, data quality checkers — that ops teams actually use. * Debug, iterate, and improve existing automation from first principles, not just patch symptoms. * Document what you build clearly enough that someone else can extend it without you. **WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR.** * Strong Python fundamentals. You can write clean, working code without leaning on a framework to think for you * Genuine curiosity about how LLMs work — not just how to call the API, but when to use them and when not to * Problem-first instinct: you read a messy business situation and ask "what's the real constraint?" before opening your editor * Comfort with ambiguity. We won't hand you a detailed spec. You'll need to ask the right questions and scope the work yourself * Some hands-on experience with AI tooling — Claude API, OpenAI, LangChain, or similar. Personal projects count * Basic familiarity with SQL or data querying. A plus if you've touched BigQuery or any cloud data warehouse. **APPLY** * IF You've built something with an LLM that actually does something useful — even if small * You've used Cursor, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted dev tools as part of your actual workflow * You've shipped something to a real user, even in a side project or college contex * You can explain a technical decision in plain language to a non-technical stakeholde **r.** **DO NOT APPLY IF** * You've only used LLMs via a UI and haven't written code against an API. * You reach for a framework before you understand the problem. * You need detailed requirements to start, and ask for more specs when things get unclear instead of making a cal **l.** **WHAT YOU’LL GET** * Direct access to FDEs and the Head of Engineering — not an internship manager buffer * Real ownership on a production workstream from day one * Exposure to agentic system design, marketplace data infrastructure, and eCommerce operations at scale. * Competitive internship stipend. **At Opptra, we write down what we believe and hold each other to it. If this sounds like the work you've been waiting to do — we want to hear from you.**