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Lucid Motors · 1 day ago

Intern, API, Cloud Microservices Engineer, Summer 2026

Newark, CA

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$50/hr - $70/hr

Start in 2026 Spring

Lucid Motors is a leading company in luxury electric vehicles, focused on creating innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. They are seeking a Software Engineering Intern for API & Cloud Microservices, where the intern will build partner-facing APIs and work on cloud software integration with Lucid vehicles.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesElectric VehicleTransportation

H1B Sponsored

Responsibilities

Build partner-facing APIs: Build partner-facing APIs: Implement secure, clearly versioned REST/gRPC endpoints that expose Lucid’s Cloud Vehicle OS capabilities, powering customer experiences and orchestrating lifecycle operations across the fleet

Own microservice slices: Design and extend Golang services behind those APIs (request handling, orchestration, persistence, resilience patterns)

Data & storage: Model and optimize MongoDB collections, indexes, and queries for evolving, high-volume datasets

Reliability & safety: Add idempotency, pagination, retries/backoff, rate limiting/quotas, and circuit-breaker patterns; write robust unit/integration tests

Security & access control: Help implement OAuth2/client credentials or mTLS, JWT scopes/claims, API keys, audit logging, and least-privilege service RBAC

DX (Developer Experience): Publish OpenAPI/Proto specs, Postman collections, sample clients, and changelogs; contribute to a simple partner onboarding flow and sandbox test harness

Observability: Add metrics, logs, and traces (Prometheus/Grafana/Elasticsearch) and participate in SLI/SLO tracking for key endpoints

(Optional) Frontend: Contribute to Frontend (React/MUI)

Qualification

GolangAPI developmentMongoDBHTTP/REST/gRPCOAuth2DockerCuriosityFrontend developmentClear communication

Required

BS/MS in CS/EE (in-progress) or equivalent experience

Solid programming skills in Golang (or strong in a typed language and eager to ramp on Go)

Understanding of HTTP, REST/gRPC, JSON/Protobuf, and backend testing

Database fundamentals (indexes, query performance, transactions/consistency trade-offs)

Clear communication and curiosity; you document decisions and ask good questions

Preferred

MongoDB experience (schema design, aggregation, TTL/index strategies)

API platform concepts: OpenAPI/Proto, versioning/deprecation, idempotency keys, rate limiting, quotas

Front-end development experience (React)

AuthN/Z exposure: OAuth2, mTLS, JWT, service-to-service auth, secrets management

Event/messaging systems (NATS, MQTT, Kafka) and streaming/ingestion patterns

Containers/cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, CI/CD

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Vacation

401k

Company

Lucid Motors

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Lucid Motors is an automotive company that specializes in electric cars.

Founded in 2007

Newark, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://lucidmotors.com

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