Software Engineer Intern (AI Internal Tools)

About the role

Garda Capital Partners is seeking a Software Engineer Intern for a 6-month role focused on building and improving internal systems, tools, and engineering infrastructure. The intern will contribute to internal applications, integrations, and shared AI platform components to help teams use AI effectively and reliably. This is a hands-on engineering position centered on maintainable, reusable systems rather than model training or one-off prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve internal applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations that bring AI capabilities into firm workflows.
• Contribute to shared AI platform capabilities, such as gateway services, access and identity integrations, monitoring, observability, and support tooling.
• Deliver small, production-minded features and services, including design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment support, and iterative improvement after release.
• Help evaluate AI models, tools, and internal AI applications; contribute to practical evaluation methods, benchmarks, monitoring, and feedback loops.
• Identify recurring needs and generalizable patterns in work across teams, then help turn them into reusable components, standards, or automation rather than one-off solutions.
• Work with engineers, infrastructure, security, compliance, and internal users to understand requirements, navigate dependencies, and incorporate feedback into robust solutions.
• Use AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining ownership of code quality, correctness, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Support and improve existing systems by investigating issues, improving documentation, and helping make services easier to operate and support.

Required skills

• Software engineering
• Data structures
• Algorithms
• Debugging
• Testing
• Version control
• Backend services
• APIs

Nice to have

• Financial markets
• Investment management

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Quantitative Finance
• Demonstrated software-development experience through coursework, internships, personal projects, or open-source work

About the Company

Garda Capital Partners is a multi-billion dollar alternative investment firm with over 22 years of experience deploying relative value strategies across fixed income markets for institutional investors. The firm is built on trust, integrity, and a shared vision for how they work together and the consistency of their results.