Software Engineer Intern (Located in Bengaluru)

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

Please submit your resume in English.

• Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid)
• Team: AI Engineering - Human Risk Management Platform
• Duration: 6 months

• What You’ll Be Building
• At KnowBe4 , we recognize that cybersecurity has always been a human problem. Our Human Risk Management platform uses intelligent, adaptive systems to help people and AI agents recognize and respond to threats, turning human behavior from the weakest link into the strongest defense.
• As a Software Engineer - Intern, you’ll help in developing new AI and data powered products and features for KnowBe4’s platform, collaborating with other engineers in a fast-paced, agile development environment.

• What You’ll Do
• ● AI Development: Build and integrate AI-powered backend features that adapt and learn in production.
• ● APIs & Pipelines: Extend APIs and data workflows that connect models to real users.
• ● LLM Integration: Apply best practices in prompt/context design, orchestration, and RAG.
• ● NLP: Proficiency in NLP techniques for text analysis, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and topic modeling.
• ● Data Science & Machine Learning: Understand and analyze data, perform EDA, build comprehensive features. Work with unsupervised Learning, Random Forest, XGBoost
• ● Collaboration: Partner with senior engineers and product teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.
• ● Craftsmanship: Write clean, tested code and uphold best practices for reviews and deployment.
• ● Growth: Keep learning! Share ideas, explore new AI tools, and raise the bar for the team.

• What You Bring
• You’re the kind of engineer who loves learning new technologies, takes pride in code quality, and wants to build and own high-quality production AI systems at scale.
• ● Pursuing a Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with electives/specialization in AI/Data Science/Machine learning.
• ● Strong Python skills and experience with modern web/API frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
• ● Curiosity for AI/ML - you’ve explored LLMs, orchestration frameworks, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Bonus points if you have:

• ● Experience with data processing tools (PySpark, Pandas, or Polars).
• ● Fine-tuning experience: you've adapted models like DeBERTa, BERT, or RoBERTa for domain-specific tasks
• ● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab ) and infrastructure-as-code (we use Terraform ).
• ● A habit of turning new discoveries into reusable knowledge for the team.

• The Tech You’ll Work With
• AI & LLMs : Anthropic Claude · AWS Bedrock · OpenAI · HuggingFace · PyTorch · LangChain · LangGraph · DeBERTa · BERT · RoBERTa · HuggingFace· XGBoost · scikit-learn
• Backend & Data: Python · FastAPI · Pydantic · PySpark · Polars · Parquet · DynamoDB · S3 · PostgreSQL/MySQL
• Cloud & Infra: AWS Lambda · Batch · Glue · SageMaker · EventBridge · Terraform · GitLab CI/CD

• Why This Team
• ● Impact with purpose - build AI that protects people, not just data.
• ● Collaborative culture - small, high-ownership teams that ship fast and learn together.
• ● Modern stack - Bedrock, LangGraph, FastAPI, PyTorch. We build with what’s next, not what’s safe.
• ● Transparency and trust - radical candor, low ego, high accountability.
• ● Global scale - your work will help protect users across 70,000+ organizations.

• Benefits & Perks
• ● Competitive compensation
• ● A vibrant newly built state-of-the art office
• ● Inclusive, collaborative culture that values creativity and experimentation

• Ready to Join Us?
• If you’re passionate about building the systems that make AI safe, scalable, and genuinely useful, come help us protect people from the threats technology alone can’t solve.

Our Fantastic Benefits

We offer company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets, employee referral bonuses, adoption assistance, tuition reimbursement, certification reimbursement, and certification completion bonuses - all in a modern, high-tech, and fun work environment. For more details about our benefits in each office location, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/benefits .

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

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