Intern, API, Cloud Microservices Engineer, Summer 2026

Software Engineering Intern - API & Cloud Microservices

Team: Cloud Microservices

Why this Internship

Lucid Vehicles are Cloud-connected Computers-on-wheels. You’ll learn how Cloud Software and Lucid Vehicles come together: high-throughput ingestion, reliable APIs, distributed systems, and safety-minded engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Build partner-facing APIs: Build partner-facing APIs: Implement secure, clearly versioned REST/gRPC endpoints that expose Lucid’s Cloud Vehicle OS capabilities, powering customer experiences and orchestrating lifecycle operations across the fleet.
• Own microservice slices: Design and extend Golang services behind those APIs (request handling, orchestration, persistence, resilience patterns).
• Data & storage: Model and optimize MongoDB collections, indexes, and queries for evolving, high-volume datasets.
• Reliability & safety: Add idempotency, pagination, retries/backoff, rate limiting/quotas, and circuit-breaker patterns; write robust unit/integration tests.
• Security & access control: Help implement OAuth2/client credentials or mTLS, JWT scopes/claims, API keys, audit logging, and least-privilege service RBAC.
• DX (Developer Experience): Publish OpenAPI/Proto specs, Postman collections, sample clients, and changelogs; contribute to a simple partner onboarding flow and sandbox test harness.
• Observability: Add metrics, logs, and traces (Prometheus/Grafana/Elasticsearch) and participate in SLI/SLO tracking for key endpoints.
• (Optional) Frontend: Contribute to Frontend (React/MUI)

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS/EE (in-progress) or equivalent experience.
• Solid programming skills in Golang (or strong in a typed language and eager to ramp on Go).
• Understanding of HTTP, REST/gRPC, JSON/Protobuf, and backend testing.
• Database fundamentals (indexes, query performance, transactions/consistency trade-offs).
• Clear communication and curiosity; you document decisions and ask good questions.

Nice-to-Have

• MongoDB experience (schema design, aggregation, TTL/index strategies).
• API platform concepts: OpenAPI/Proto, versioning/deprecation, idempotency keys, rate limiting, quotas.
• Front-end development experience (React)
• AuthN/Z exposure: OAuth2, mTLS, JWT, service-to-service auth, secrets management.
• Event/messaging systems (NATS, MQTT, Kafka) and streaming/ingestion patterns.
• Containers/cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, CI/CD.

What Success Looks Like

• You ship at least one partner-facing API endpoint or microservice feature end-to-end (design, tests, observability, docs)
• Your code is well-tested, observable, documented, and reviewed without major rework.
• Partner Developer Experience artifacts (specs, samples, docs) are clear enough for another engineer to integrate with minimal back-and-forth.

Program Information:

• Timing: May- August, or June-September pending class schedules.

• Duration of Internship: Our internship program is 12 weeks; the end date is flexible based on individual needs.

• Work Location & Environment: This position will be in Newark, CA, and is fully in-person. You must be prepared to start onsite for your first day of employment. The working environment will be office work.

• Compensation: Student compensation is based on location and current degree level, non-negotiable ranging from $50 to $70.

• Relocation: May be provided on a case to case basis.

• Housing/Transportation: You must provide your own living arrangements and transportation in the local area.

• Background Check: All offers of employment are contingent on clearing a background check.

• Drug Screening: All offers of employment are contingent on passing a drug screen.

• Medical benefits: Dental, vision, and medical on day 1 for all interns working full-time.

• Visa Sponsorship: Lucid may but is not obligated to sponsor foreign national employees requiring company sponsorship for U.S employment authorization.

Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)

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