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Ship real work before you graduate.

A structured internship program for students and recent graduates who'd rather build than observe. Three tracks, a dedicated mentor, and work that actually ships — Labs contributions, internal tooling, and reference implementations reviewed like production code.

03 tracks — AI engineering, data engineering, cloud
10–12 wks per cohort — remote-first, full-time during the program
01 dedicated mentor — a practicing engineer, not a program coordinator
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Tracks

Three tracks. One standard: it ships.

Track 01 — AI engineering

Build with LLMs, properly

Retrieval pipelines, eval harnesses, and agent prototypes — the unglamorous engineering that separates deployed AI from demos.

  • RAG implementations over real document sets, with citation quality measured
  • Eval suites: build the tests before you trust the agent
  • Guardrail and observability patterns from our production playbooks
Track 02 — Data engineering

Pipelines with contracts

Lakehouse pipelines on modern stacks — with tests, lineage, and data quality checks from day one.

  • Batch and streaming pipelines with schema contracts and validation
  • Orchestration, backfills, and failure handling — the parts tutorials skip
  • Contributions to reference patterns other engineers will actually read
Track 03 — Cloud

Platform engineering fundamentals

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cost-aware architecture on AWS — building the paved roads, not clicking the console.

  • IaC from day one: everything you build is code-reviewed and reproducible
  • CI/CD pipelines for data and AI workloads, not just web apps
  • FinOps basics: tagging, budgets, and rightsizing as routine practice

Program structure

Structured like a job. Mentored like an apprenticeship.

Duration & format

Cohorts run 10–12 weeks, remote-first and full-time. You join a cohort in your track, work from a real backlog, and demo at the end of each sprint.

Mentorship model

Every intern is paired with one practicing engineer as a mentor: weekly 1:1s, daily async code review, and architecture walkthroughs of the systems you touch.

How you're evaluated

On shipped work and growth: code reviews, sprint demos, and a final review with your mentor. No stack-ranking against other interns — the bar is the work.

What comes after

Strong interns are invited into the talent network vetting pipeline — with their internship work counting as evidence. The internship is a door, not a dead end.

The work

What interns ship.

Real internal work from our backlog — the kind with users, reviewers, and consequences.

Labs contributions

Experiments that teach

Prototype evaluations, benchmark harnesses, and pattern spikes for AnovaCloud Labs — work that sharpens our production playbooks.

Internal tooling

Tools the team uses

Developer-experience improvements, data quality checks, automation scripts — shipped to the engineers who'll rely on them.

Reference work

Patterns & documentation

Reference implementations and technical write-ups that other engineers — inside and outside AnovaCloud — can learn from.

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Tell us what you've built. Coursework counts — but we weight projects, contributions, and curiosity more.

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Application received.

Thanks — a human will review your application and reach out within two weeks if there's a fit for an upcoming cohort.

Questions

Internships, answered plainly.

Yes. Internships are paid positions. The exact stipend or hourly rate is confirmed in the offer for each cohort.
Yes — cohorts are remote-first. You'll need reliable overlap with your mentor's working hours, which are typically US Central time.
Real internal work: Labs contributions, internal tooling, reference pattern implementations, and documentation — reviewed like production code. No coffee runs, no synthetic toy projects.
Yes — that's the design. Strong interns are invited into the talent network vetting pipeline, with their internship work counting as evidence.
Students and recent graduates with demonstrable building experience — coursework plus projects, open-source contributions, or personal builds. Tell us what you've built in your application.

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Why work with AnovaCloud

Mission, how engagement works, engagement types — and why there's no job board.

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Talent Network

For experienced engineers: one profile, one vetting bar, matched to client engagements.

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How we vet experts

Screening, deep technical interview, paid trial engagement, continuous rating.

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Build things that matter, early.

Mentorship from practicing engineers, work that ships, and a path into the network.

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