Summer Internship - Software Engineering Intern, Agentic AI

About Uphold

Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.

Uphold integrates with more than 30 trading venues, including centralized and decentralized    exchanges, to deliver superior liquidity and optimal execution. Uphold never loans out customer assets and is always 100% reserved. The company pioneered radical transparency and uniquely publishes its assets and liabilities every 30 seconds on a public website (https://uphold.com/en-us/transparency).

Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.

To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.

Job Summary

Join Uphold’s Agentic AI team for an 8-week internship focused on building internal AI tooling that accelerates software delivery and improves developer productivity.

You’ll design and ship a scoped project end-to-end, working with LLMs and agentic systems that can explore the codebase, answer architectural questions, and assist engineers under human supervision.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and ship a scoped internal AI/developer-productivity project to production.
• Build and iterate on agentic workflows that help engineers.
• Work hands-on with LLMs, AI agents, and Model Context Protocols (MCPs).
• Develop tooling in TypeScript/Node.js (and possibly Python) to support AI-assisted development.
• Integrate with code-intelligence components (e.g., indexing, retrieval, and/or graph-based representations) to improve agent performance.
• Write clear technical documentation and produce a technical spec for your project.
• Participate in the team’s normal rhythm (stand-ups, PR reviews, planning, pairing).
• Present your project and outcomes to the broader engineering organization at the end of the internship.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• 0–1 years of relevant work experience (internships, research, or significant personal projects).
• Proficient in Git and basic software engineering practices (testing, code review, debugging).
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Team-oriented and collaborative.
• Fluent written and oral English skills.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with developer tooling, static analysis, code search, or code intelligence.
• Relevant cloud/software engineering certifications.
• Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets.
• Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
• Open source contributions (tools you built, issues you fixed, or features you shipped).

What We Offer

• 8-week program: July 20 to September 11, 2026.
• Work setup: Based in Braga, with hybrid options available.
• Welcome gift: You’ll receive some cool Uphold swag!
• Mentor: A mentor will guide your work and provide ongoing feedback.
• Buddy: A buddy will help you settle in and support you along the way.
• Equipment: We’ll provide a laptop for the duration of your internship.
• Compensation: Successfully completing the internship makes you eligible for up to €2,840.

Join us to grow, innovate, and contribute meaningfully. Be part of our talented team!

Visit our careers page for more exciting opportunities, if this role isn’t the perfect fit.

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We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, and any other protected classes. Difference makes us stronger and better - together.