AI Backend Engineer Intern
At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.
AI Backend Engineer Intern
Location: Bangalore
Duration: 6 Months
Type: Internship
About the Role
We are looking for an AI Backend Engineer Intern to help build intelligent applications and AI-enabled services that solve real-world business problems. This role focuses on internal tooling, AI platform services, LLM integration, RAG pipelines, and production-grade software engineering.
What You Will Do
Build backend services and internal tools that power AI-enabled applications.
Develop reusable Python components and services for AI workflows.
Build proof-of-concepts and production-ready AI features.
Integrate enterprise applications with LLMs and Generative AI services.
Design and enhance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
Build data ingestion and transformation pipelines using modern data platforms.
Write clean, maintainable, and testable Python code.
Participate in code reviews, debugging, deployment, and operational support.
Must-Have Qualifications
Final-year Bachelor's or Master's student in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
Strong Python programming skills.
Understanding of object-oriented programming and software engineering fundamentals.
Knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Databricks
AWS
Docker
RAG architectures
LLM-powered applications
Software testing methodologies
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