Intern, API, Cloud Microservices Engineer, Summer 2026

Lucid Motors•Newark, NJ

2d•$50 - $70•Onsite

About The Position

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility. We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience. Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you. Software Engineering Intern - API & Cloud Microservices Team: Cloud Microservices Why this Internship Lucid Vehicles are Cloud-connected Computers-on-wheels. You’ll learn how Cloud Software and Lucid Vehicles come together: high-throughput ingestion, reliable APIs, distributed systems, and safety-minded engineering.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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)