Forward Deployed Engineer Intern (Mountain View)

Summary

Kognitos is building the future of business automation, focusing on automating complex back-office processes. As a Forward Deployed Engineer Intern, you'll work closely with customers to design, build, and deploy automations, ensuring their needs are met while gaining valuable experience in a customer-facing role.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand their processes, gather requirements, and troubleshoot issues
• Build and deploy automations on the Kognitos platform, translating business needs into working solutions
• Partner with product and engineering to surface customer feedback and help improve the platform
• Prototype quickly, test with real data, and iterate based on what customers need

Skills

• Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Solid programming fundamentals (comfortable with Python, or able to pick it up quickly)
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Eagerness to be in front of customers and to learn on the job
• Maturity and professionalism — you carry yourself well with customers and senior stakeholders, communicate clearly, and follow through
• Strong customer-facing skills — you listen well, ask the right questions, and can explain technical ideas to non-technical audiences with confidence and warmth
• Sound judgment and ownership — you can navigate ambiguity, prioritize, and take responsibility for outcomes
• A genuine curiosity about AI, automation, and how businesses actually run

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Solid programming fundamentals (comfortable with Python, or able to pick it up quickly)
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Eagerness to be in front of customers and to learn on the job
• Maturity and professionalism — you carry yourself well with customers and senior stakeholders, communicate clearly, and follow through
• Strong customer-facing skills — you listen well, ask the right questions, and can explain technical ideas to non-technical audiences with confidence and warmth
• Sound judgment and ownership — you can navigate ambiguity, prioritize, and take responsibility for outcomes
• A genuine curiosity about AI, automation, and how businesses actually run