AI Engineering Internship
About Restaurant365
Restaurant365 is the industry’s leading cloud-based restaurant management platform, empowering operators to run smarter, more efficient, and more profitable businesses. We combine cutting-edge technology with a deep passion for hospitality to deliver a unified solution for accounting, operations, workforce, and intelligence. As we continue redefining what’s possible in restaurant tech, our R&D organization plays a critical role in shaping the future of our platform.
The R365 Internship Experience
As an R365 intern, you’ll spend 12 weeks embedded in a fast-growing SaaS environment where innovation drives impact. You’ll work closely with technical mentors across Engineering, Product, DevOps, and Architecture to contribute directly to meaningful R&D initiatives.
Your internship concludes with a final presentation to R&D leadership showcasing your end-to-end AI project, key learnings, and contributions.
The R&D Team
Our R&D organization is dedicated to exploring next-generation technologies, validating new ideas, and accelerating Restaurant365’s innovation pipeline. We thrive on rapid experimentation, collaborative problem-solving, deep technical exploration, and bold thinking.
If you’re excited by the idea of building something from scratch, pushing the boundaries of AI engineering productivity, and being part of a team that shapes the future of restaurant technology, you’ll find your home here.
Responsibilities
- Design and build an AI-driven application or internal agentic workflow from the ground up, using a fully AI-assisted software development lifecycle (ideation → requirements → design → implementation → testing → deployment).
- Prototype innovative AI productivity tools or AI-powered engineering workflows that demonstrate transformative efficiency for internal teams.
- Conduct research on advanced AI techniques, frameworks, and agents, applying findings to real R365 engineering challenges.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, and DevOps Engineers to align your project with R&D goals and platform strategy.
- Implement scalable, high-quality software within the R365 engineering environment using our core technologies.
- Present findings, technical artifacts, and results to R&D leadership, showcasing the impact and feasibility of AI-assisted engineering.
Qualifications
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, AI/Machine Learning (preferred), or related field.
- Foundational understanding of computer science principles, distributed systems, and modern software engineering.
- Solid AI skills, including familiarity with LLMs, agentic AI frameworks, prompting, model evaluation, AI-assisted development, or workflow automation.
- Knowledge of one or more backend languages: C#, Java, or Python.
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React (preferred but not required depending on project direction).
- Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or cloud data platforms like Snowflake.
- Understanding of cloud and DevOps fundamentals (Azure, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience or interest in AI productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar development accelerators.
- Excellent communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for learning emerging technologies.
- A strong desire to build something new, iterate quickly, and validate ideas through experimentation.
Benefits
- Build a cutting-edge AI project from scratch: You’ll own an end-to-end initiative that demonstrates the power of AI-assisted engineering, proving how advanced agentic workflows or AI applications can be developed and deployed inside a modern SaaS environment.
- Experiment at the frontier of engineering productivity: Dive into generative AI tools, agent architectures, and automation stacks that represent the next decade of engineering innovation.
- Work alongside top R&D talent: You’ll collaborate with Software Engineers, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, Architects, and R&D Leadership who are passionate about pushing boundaries and mentoring emerging engineering talent.
- Hands-on experience in a high-growth SaaS company: Learn how a leading platform like Restaurant365 innovates, scales, and transforms an industry through technology.
- Potential for full-time employment: If you demonstrate exceptional skill, curiosity, and impact, you may be offered the opportunity to return as a full-time engineer after graduation.