AI & Full-Stack Development Intern

26-24 AI & Full-Stack Development Intern

• Resource Type National Undergraduate Internship
• Region HQ
• Date Opened 09/28/2026
• Job Type Full time
• Industry Research and Development
• City Lima
• State/Province Lima

Job Description

The International Potato Center (CIP) is looking for one(1) AI & Full-Stack Development Intern to provide support to Digital &Data Department in Lima, Peru.

About CIP: CIP is partof the CGIAR global research partnership committed to transforming food, land,and water systems in a climate crisis. CIP’s mission is to develop and sharescience-based innovations in potato, sweetpotato, and other root and tubercrops. CIP partners with organizations in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia,and Latin America to strengthen agri-food systems and provide economic, social,and nutritional benefits, especially for women and youth. We integrate socialand biophysical sciences to address complex challenges in food and agriculture.For more information, please visit .

• Contribute to building features of a native Windows desktop clientwritten in Rust (GPUI): panels, editing surfaces, streaming views, settings,and diagnostics.
• Support the implementation of document handling and formatfidelity: .docx, Markdown, and LaTeX, citations and bibliography, typesettingpipelines, and faithful round-trips between formats.
  
• Contribute to extending a Python 3.12 multi-agent backend builton LangGraph and LangChain and the surfaces through which researchers invoke itand receive its results.
  
• Support the completion of the move to a self-containedWindows installation, so the application installs and runs like any otherWindows program.
  
• Contribute to applied LLM engineering activities, includingprompt and model routing, retrieval-augmented generation over researchers' PDFlibraries, guardrails, and evaluation of agent output.
  
• Support the extension and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines onGitHub Actions and the automated test suites.
  
• Document the work and collaborate with research teamsacross CGIAR.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

• Currently enrolled in or recently graduated fromComputer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a relatedfield.
• Ranked in the upper third of their faculty (mandatoryrequirement).

Technical skills:

• Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Rust, or solid experience in anothersystems language (C++, Go, or C#) together with a demonstrated ability to learnnew languages quickly. (The desktop client is written in Rust and is asubstantial part of the codebase.)
• Demonstrated experience developing full-stack applications throughacademic, personal, internship, or professional projects (APIs,persistence, frontend, authentication).
• Familiarity with Git, code review, testing, and CI/CDpractices.
• Comfortable targeting Windows as a platform(PowerShell, native packaging), not only Linux or macOS.
• Ability to document work clearly and follow structureddevelopment processes.
• Awareness of responsible AI use: validation bysubject-matter experts, no confidential data in prompts, and disclosure of AIassistance.
  
• Proficiency inEnglish and Spanish.
• UX design skills:interaction and interface design, onboarding, information hierarchy, andaccessibility. The users are scientists, not engineers.
• Knowledge with structured document formats andediting: document models, editor frameworks, OOXML/.docx, LaTeX, Markdown,or typesetting pipelines such as Pandoc or Typst.
• Hands-on experiencewriting Rustin a real project, or familiarity with GPUI or anothernative UI framework.
• Knowledge with LLM or agent frameworks (LangChain,LangGraph, or equivalent), RAG, or prompt evaluation.
• Scientific Python(pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels) and interest in research data.
  

Why should you consider this opportunity?

• CIP is a global and reputable internationalorganization that has a strong, state-of-the-art R&D background.
• CIP is dedicated to achieving food security, improvingnutrition and well-being, and gender equity for poor people in roots, tubersfarming and food systems in the developing world.
• CIP is a member of the CGIAR, a global partnershipthat unites international organizations engaged in research about foodsecurity. CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty, increase food security,improve human health and nutrition, and sustainable management of naturalresources.

What are we offering?

• C IP provides the opportunity to work in a prestigious internationalorganization.