Systems Design Architecture Engineering_Intern
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026.
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The Blue Planet software division is seeking a software engineering intern to contribute to the development and maintenance of Fulfillment Resource Adapters (RA). The role involves using Generative AI and implementing data models and ingress/egress adaptation layer components between Blue Planet Orchestrator/Inventory products and external devices within a micro-services oriented, container-based system architecture. The position provides exposure to OSS platforms supporting IP/MPLS, optical networks, telco cloud, 5G, and SD-WAN environments.
How you will make an impact:
- Develop new software micro-services, libraries, and features for Resource Adapters, device simulators, and tools that auto-generate data models and RA pipelines.
- Create automated test suites for Resource Adapter feature validation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve product issues identified during system integration testing and customer deployments.
- Collaborate with local and remote software development, test, delivery, and support teams.
- Participate in planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and documentation activities.
The must haves:
- Education: Actively enrolled in a bachelor's degree in Electronics/IT/Computer Science Engineering or equivalent,
- Python based development in Linux environment
- JSON
- GitHub Copilot
- Rest API
- Computer Networking
- Cloud environments (e.g., Docker, AWS, Openstack etc.)
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms & design patterns
Nice to haves:
- Experience designing, developing, and testing Resource Adapters for IP/MPLS, optical networks, telco cloud, 5G, or SD-WAN environments.
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