Internship - Backend Developer for AI Applications

About Us

We are a Machine Learning and Computer Vision startup founded in 2020, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with an AI Lab in Milan, Italy.

Our expertise spans Machine Learning and Generative AI for financial services and Computer Vision for life sciences.

At Gemmo AI, we build custom AI solutions that combine automation with human insight. We use a modular approach: first we explore the highest-impact opportunities, then we design and deploy tailored solutions, and finally we help improve and maintain them over time.

We believe in responsible, pragmatic AI: systems that integrate into real workflows, provide measurable value, and remain under your control.

About the Role

We are looking for a backend developer to join our team and help integrate our models and solutions into our clients’ cloud infrastructures.

In this role, you will be responsible for co-designing, building and maintaining CRUD APIs, launching and orchestrating Machine Learning inference pipelines, and deploying the solution on the cloud.

You will collaborate closely with UI/UX designers, frontend developers and Machine Learning engineers, ensuring that AI components integrate into end-to-end solutions.

Compensation

• Compensation during internship: 800€/month;
• Up to 22k€ RAL for contract after successful internship;

Working at Gemmo

Tech Stack

We work with a fairly broad spectrum of languages and tools, albeit with uneven distributions. Expect to get acquainted with the following:

• Languages: Python, Typescript, SQL, Rust
• ML & Data Libraries: PyTorch, Polars, Ultralytics, vLLM, Prophet, XGBoost, NumPy, OpenCV, Kornea, LangGraph
• IDE and Terminal: Cursor, Warp
• API Frameworks: FastAPI, Express.js, Tokio
• Tooling: uv, ruff, ty, Justfile
• Monitoring: CometML, Logfire, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Langfuse, MixPanel
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Snowflake, DynamoDB
• CI/CD: Docker, GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK, Terraform, Ray, Modal
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure

Working Hours

Monday-Thursday: 8.30 - 17:45 (CET)

Friday: 8:30 - 16:30 (CET)

Lunch time: 13:00 - 14:00 (CET, flexible)

On-call duty: not requested

Internal Meetings

We strive to minimize the number of fixed internal meetings. We prefer to have on-demand meetings when necessary and involving only the relevant people.

We do have a few meetings that are fixed, though:

1. Morning standup (8:30, 10 minutes): definition and review of daily tasks;
2. Evening standup (17:45 Mon-Thur / 16:30 Fri, 10 minutes): wrap up and updates;
3. Weekly retrospective (Fridays, 8:30, 1 hour): projects status review;
4. Monthly 1:1s with CTO (first Friday of the month, 20 minutes): discussion on problems, roadblocks, expectations, overall satisfaction.

Hybrid Work Policy

Required 3+ days per week in person in Genova.

Up to 20 days per year of work-from-anywhere.

Mandatory

• High school diploma in Computer Science (perito informatico);
• Knowledge of Python and/or Typescript;
• Hands-on experience in backend development, with Python or Typescript;
• Familiarity with API development (FastAPI or Express.js);
• Basic understanding of databases (SQL or NoSQL);
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git);
• B2+ English proficiency;

Nice to Have

• Experience with running Machine Learning inference jobs with PyTorch or ONNX;
• Experience with interaction with LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini) via API calls;
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or Azure);

• Monitor, camera and noise-cancelling headphones;
• Paid lunch and coffee breaks when in office;