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 stakeholder.
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 call.
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.

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