The internship is hands-on and impact-oriented: around 3 days per week, you’ll contribute to a live customer project, while the remaining 2 days will be spent working closely with the askEarth team on product development, engineering quality, and internal platform improvements.

This role requires self-supervision, independent execution, and strong attention to quality and detail. You’ll get support and mentoring, but you should be comfortable taking ownership, asking good questions, and driving your work forward.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize backend services and AI-powered workflows in Python
• Work with modern AI tools, APIs, data pipelines, and geospatial intelligence systems
• Contribute to an active customer project with a key customer approximately 3 days per week
• Collaborate closely with our CTO and engineering team on architecture, implementation, and technical decisions
• Work with databases, data catalogues, APIs, and data integration pipelines
• Take ownership of your work in a fast-paced environment with real responsibility

Requirements

• Strong Python skills: you can write clean, modular code and solve problems independently
• Familiarity with Git, APIs, and databases
• Interest in modern AI systems, LLMs, agents, automation, or data-driven applications
• You’ve built something you’re proud of: personal, academic, or experimental
• Able to work independently with limited supervision and strong attention to detail
• Quality-minded: you care about clean code, reliability, testing, and maintainability
• Creative, proactive, and eager to learn
• Enjoy working in a small, collaborative team
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Bonus: Experience with MCP, LLM evaluation, AI research
• Bonus: Experience with Docker, cloud platforms, or production backend systems
• Bonus: Experience with geospatial tools, data, or libraries such as GeoPandas, PostGIS, QGIS, Shapely, GDAL, or similar
• Bonus: German language skills

What We Offer

• Hands-on experience with the newest AI technologies in a real startup environment
• Close collaboration with the CTO and a strong engineering team
• Direct impact on a real product used by leading companies
• Exposure to real customer problems through an active key customer project
• A learning-first environment with mentoring, code reviews, and modern tools
• A dynamic and ambitious startup culture with ownership and creative freedom
• Beautiful office space in Zurich and flexible hybrid work setup
• Competitive internship salary



How to Apply

If you want to learn a lot, work on real AI and geospatial intelligence problems, and contribute to a company that is changing the game of business intelligence, please apply directly via LinkedIn.