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Engineering Intern — Infra / SRE

Platform Internship

Intern Internship Remote / Guwahati 3 months

Engagement

Internship

Three months. Remote. 2.5 hours per day, five days per week. Unpaid (we are early-stage and honest about it).

Scope of role

Contribute to live projects. Shadow senior practitioners. Build a portfolio that matters.

01 — The role

Why this role exists at EduRankAI

3 months on platform. Observability, deploys, infra-as-code. Pair with the Senior SRE, shadow on-call, ship real reliability wins. The bar is "the team is faster or safer after your internship than before it" — measured by a real number, not by demo.

02 — The work

What you will own

  • 01 Author observability dashboards for a real system that the team uses after you leave.
  • 02 Ship one CI/CD or deploy improvement.
  • 03 Shadow on-call across at least three rotations.
  • 04 Author a postmortem write-up.
  • 05 Pair daily with the Senior SRE.

03 — The expertise

What we look for

Linux + scripting (Bash / Python / Go)Curiosity for production systemsOne open-source SRE-adjacent projectComfort reading logsStrong written communicator

04 — The bar

Who thrives here

  • You have run a real Linux system as your own — server, lab box, daily-driver.
  • You read postmortems for sport and you can describe one that taught you something.
  • You can write a runbook another engineer could follow without context.
  • You can describe a CI flake you have root-caused.

05 — How we work

The EduRankAI environment

Remote-first, async-first

Work from anywhere. We optimise for deep work, not face time. Periodic in-person off-sites for the full-time team.

High autonomy, high standards

We hire adults and trust them. You will be expected to set your own goals, communicate clearly, and ship.

Builders, not bureaucrats

We optimise for clarity over process. Make the call, ship the work, write up what you learned.

Bharat-built, globally ambitious

We are an Indian frontier AI lab. We build for India first and the world second — in that order.

06 — Hiring process

What to expect after you apply

  1. 01

    Application review

    Every application is read personally within five business days. We respond either way.

  2. 02

    Take-home or live exercise

    Role-specific. Time-boxed. Real problems we are actually working on, not invented puzzles.

  3. 03

    Conversations

    Deep technical and values conversations with the team you would join. No trick questions. No panel ambushes.

  4. 04

    Offer or honest no

    If yes: digital offer letter, signed in-portal, transparent terms. If no: written feedback if you want it.

Before you start

What we will collect. What it costs. What we will not do with it.

Application fee

CHF 1

Intern tier

We will collect

  • Name, email, phone — Account + application updates. No marketing.
  • Resume / portfolio link — Human review of your work.
  • Date + place of birth — Identity verification only.
  • Your written responses — Selection rubric. Read by humans.
  • Government ID (later) — Anti-fraud at offer / interview stage. Not at signup.

We will never

  • Sell your data
  • Share with third-party recruiters
  • Use for advertising
  • Train models on it
  • Send marketing email

Our situation

EduRankAI is a small, independent organization building long-term capabilities in educational intelligence, advanced AI systems, and research infrastructure. We take no advertiser money, no donations with strings attached, and no investor pressure on hiring decisions. The small per-application fee covers the real cost of processing your application — human review, identity verification, infrastructure, reviewer time. It buys us the right to be honest. Genuine financial hardship? Request a fee waiver inside the application — reviewed individually within 5 business days, with no record in your file and no second-class treatment of waiver-granted applications.

Full transparency policy Why we charge a fee Questions? Email us

Ready to apply?

We read every application personally. If you are the right person for this role — regardless of pedigree, background, or where you are based — you will hear back from us within five business days.

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