About the Team
Usatii builds intelligent enterprise, AI-powered software for organizations operating in complex commercial environments.
Our engineering teams work directly with companies to understand their operations, consolidate fragmented information, automate business processes, and develop software that organizations can operate and own.
A central part of our work is helping organizations establish ownership and control over their software, data, and the intelligence generated by their AI systems. This includes agentic AI, sovereign AI deployments, enterprise automation, and the development of infrastructure that allows businesses to maintain control over their technology and intellectual property.
We serve customers across manufacturing, logistics, construction, and other industries where reliable software and artificial intelligence can substantially improve how work is performed.
Our engineering philosophy is AI-native. We increasingly utilize autonomous coding agents, AI-assisted engineering environments, and modern development workflows to accelerate the design, implementation, testing, and deployment of commercial software.
Our Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs) translate operational problems into functioning software. They collaborate with business leaders, technical teams, and employees to move projects from initial requirements through implementation and deployment.
About the Role
We are hiring Forward-Deployed Engineer Interns to support the development and deployment of software across our portfolio of commercial accounts.
This position offers exposure to a diverse range of engineering assignments. Interns receive specific projects from Usatii's engineering leadership and are responsible for executing assigned work within established technical, quality, and delivery requirements.
Assignments may involve developing enterprise applications, implementing software integrations, building agentic AI systems, automating business processes, deploying sovereign AI infrastructure, or contributing to existing commercial platforms.
Interns should expect to work in AI-native engineering environments. Depending on the project, a substantial portion of software development may be conducted through AI-assisted or agent-driven workflows, including autonomous code generation, testing, debugging, documentation, and implementation.
Engineers are expected to understand the systems they build, exercise technical judgment, validate AI-generated work, and maintain responsibility for the quality, security, and reliability of delivered software.
Interns may also participate in Usatii's Free Pilot Development Bootcamp program, which brings engineering teams directly into commercial organizations to identify operational challenges, develop working software pilots, demonstrate measurable improvements, and prepare employees for adoption. Depending on their experience and assigned responsibilities, interns may help facilitate or lead customer-facing bootcamp sessions, technical demonstrations, and implementation workshops under the guidance of engineering leadership.
Interns will work with experienced engineers and may collaborate directly with customer personnel throughout the project lifecycle.
This is a hands-on engineering position. Successful candidates will develop software used in actual commercial environments while expanding their technical capabilities and understanding of business operations.
What You Will Do
- AI-native software engineering: Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise applications using modern programming frameworks, AI-assisted development environments, and autonomous software engineering agents.
- Agentic development workflows: Utilize and coordinate AI coding agents to implement features, investigate problems, generate tests, refactor applications, and accelerate software delivery while maintaining engineering oversight.
- Commercial project execution: Complete assigned engineering tasks across multiple customer accounts, meeting established specifications, deadlines, and quality standards.
- Agentic AI integration: Develop intelligent agents and multi-step AI workflows capable of interacting with enterprise data, software applications, tools, and business processes under appropriate controls.
- Sovereign AI deployments: Support the implementation of AI systems within customer-controlled environments, including private infrastructure, on-premises deployments, private cloud environments, and architectures that prioritize data ownership, security, and model portability.
- Systems integration: Connect existing business applications, databases, APIs, and external services to improve interoperability and operational efficiency.
- Customer discovery: Participate in technical discussions, workflow assessments, and implementation sessions to understand customer requirements and operational constraints.
- Pilot development and bootcamp leadership: Participate in, facilitate, or lead assigned portions of Usatii's commercial development bootcamps. Responsibilities may include assessing organizational workflows, documenting operational inefficiencies, developing proof-of-value software pilots, presenting technical demonstrations, evaluating measurable business outcomes, and helping customer teams understand and adopt new systems.
- Testing and deployment: Develop automated tests, evaluate AI-generated implementations, investigate defects, document technical decisions, and support the deployment of reliable, production-ready software.
- Technical collaboration: Work with engineering leadership, project managers, other engineers, and customer stakeholders to provide progress updates, demonstrate completed work, and resolve implementation challenges.
- Continuous improvement: Research emerging AI models, agentic engineering techniques, development frameworks, and new approaches to software delivery that improve engineering efficiency and customer outcomes.
Commercial Assignments
Projects will primarily serve organizations in the following industries:
Manufacturing: Production management, inventory systems, enterprise resource planning, procurement automation, operational analytics, AI-powered decision support, and administrative process automation.
Logistics: Supply-chain visibility, dispatching, fleet and asset management, scheduling, reporting, data integration, intelligent workflow orchestration, and operations automation.
Construction: Project management, estimating, workforce coordination, field operations, equipment and material tracking, customer management, and enterprise software integration.
Assignments may also involve building unified business platforms that connect multiple departments, deploying private AI assistants over enterprise information, or implementing agentic systems that help organizations manage and act upon their proprietary data.
Engineering assignments may change during the internship according to customer needs, project availability, and the intern's demonstrated capabilities.
What We're Looking For
Candidates should demonstrate:
- Working proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language, such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, or C++.
- Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals, APIs, databases, version control, and modern development practices.
- An interest in AI-native software engineering and a willingness to actively use agentic development environments as part of everyday engineering work.
- The ability to understand, review, troubleshoot, and improve software generated with assistance from artificial intelligence.
- An interest in large language models, agentic systems, enterprise AI integration, and the practical application of computing to real-world problems.
- The ability to independently investigate technical problems and implement solutions with appropriate supervision.
- Strong written communication and the ability to document technical work.
- A willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies, industries, and software environments.
- Sound judgment concerning security, confidentiality, customer information, and the responsible use of AI development tools.
Additional Experience We Value
Experience in any of the following areas is beneficial but not required:
- AI-assisted or agentic coding environments, such as Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or comparable engineering tools.
- Building software applications using AI-first development workflows.
- Large language model APIs, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, or autonomous agent frameworks.
- Self-hosted AI models, inference infrastructure, containerization, or private cloud deployments.
- Enterprise application development, systems integration, or workflow automation.
- Presenting software demonstrations, conducting technical workshops, or communicating engineering concepts to nontechnical audiences.
- Building and deploying personal, academic, open-source, or commercial software projects.
Previous forward-deployed engineering experience is not required. We welcome students, recent graduates, and early-career engineers who can demonstrate technical competence through their work.
Candidates are not expected to have mastered every AI development tool or deployment methodology. However, they should be comfortable learning and adopting emerging approaches to software engineering as the field evolves.
Professional Development and Resources
Usatii provides engineering interns with access to professional development opportunities that supplement their commercial assignments.
These opportunities include technical education, engineering resources, mentorship, exposure to emerging software and AI technologies, and participation in relevant industry and business-development programs.
Interns may receive opportunities to explore:
- AI-native engineering: Modern approaches to developing, testing, and maintaining software using autonomous agents and AI-assisted development environments.
- Enterprise AI architecture: Designing secure, reliable systems that integrate artificial intelligence with business applications and proprietary data.
- Sovereign AI infrastructure: Understanding private model deployments, customer-controlled computing environments, model portability, and data governance.
- Commercial engineering: Translating business requirements into functional software, collaborating with customers, and delivering production systems.
- Bootcamp facilitation and technical leadership: Developing experience in customer-facing engineering through Usatii's pilot development bootcamps, including leading technical presentations, facilitating workshops, demonstrating software, and communicating measurable business outcomes.
- Professional development: Business operations, technical leadership, entrepreneurship, industry networking, and emerging technology policy.
The objective is to provide meaningful technical experience alongside opportunities to develop broader professional and commercial expertise.
Business Development Board Membership
Every Forward-Deployed Engineer Intern is also designated an active board member of Usatii's Business Development Board, an internal advisory body supporting professional outreach, industry relationships, and the advancement of computing.
This membership is distinct from service on the company's legal governing board.
Membership provides access to additional professional opportunities, including:
- Participation in business-development meetings, educational programs, and industry discussions.
- Opportunities to attend conferences, business networking events, chamber activities, and professional gatherings.
- Exposure to commercial leadership, entrepreneurship, business partnerships, and regional economic development.
- Optional participation in public-policy discussions and advocacy initiatives supporting software engineering, artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty, and the future of computing.
Interns who are interested in public policy may elect to participate in company-authorized initiatives promoting the advancement and responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
Attendance at optional external events and participation in public-policy advocacy are not requirements of the engineering position and do not affect engineering performance evaluations.
Business Development Board membership is advisory and does not independently confer corporate governance authority, ownership, or the right to enter agreements on behalf of Usatii.
Compensation and Initial Evaluation Period
Starting compensation is $27.50 per hour.
The internship begins with a three-month paid introductory evaluation period, with the possibility of promotion into a full-time engineering position.
During this period, interns will receive assigned engineering work, technical guidance, and structured performance feedback.
Performance will be assessed based on technical execution, software quality, reliability, communication, professional judgment, effective use of AI-native engineering tools, and the ability to complete assigned projects.
At the conclusion of the initial three months, Usatii will review the intern's performance and available commercial opportunities to determine eligibility for continued employment, an extended internship, or advancement into a full-time engineering position.
Continuation or promotion beyond the initial appointment is not guaranteed.
All required work and compensable training or company-directed activities will be paid in accordance with applicable wage and hour requirements.
Working at Usatii
We value engineers who are intellectually curious, capable of working through unfamiliar problems, and committed to producing reliable software.
We believe the practice of software engineering is evolving rapidly as artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly capable participant in the development process. Our engineers are encouraged to take advantage of these advances while maintaining a rigorous understanding of the systems they design and deploy.
In an AI-native environment, engineering is not measured solely by the amount of code an individual writes. The ability to define problems, design architectures, direct intelligent tools, evaluate implementations, identify failures, and deliver dependable systems is equally important.
Our work also emphasizes technological ownership. We seek to help organizations retain meaningful control over their software, proprietary information, infrastructure, and AI capabilities rather than creating unnecessary dependence on external platforms.
We encourage initiative, independent thinking, experimentation, and continuous learning while maintaining high standards for security, engineering quality, and customer confidentiality.
How to Apply
Submit a resume or equivalent experience summary, along with links to relevant software projects, repositories, or technical work, through the application form associated with this position.
Applicants should be prepared to discuss a project they have built, the technical decisions they made, and how they evaluated whether their implementation worked.
Candidates may also be asked to explain how they have used AI-assisted development tools, or how they would approach solving a software engineering problem in an AI-native environment.
Usatii evaluates candidates based on demonstrated ability, technical judgment, adaptability, and potential to contribute meaningfully to commercial engineering projects.