Intern Software Engineer (Fall 2026)

Company: Research Engineering Design Canada, Inc (‘Redcan’) Job Title: Software Engineer (Co-op – Agentic AI Products Location: Remote but based in Canada and ideally located in the Greater Toronto Area, or Kitchener-Waterloo Area, London, Guelph or Eastern or Central Timezone.

Designated Schools & Eligibility: University of Waterloo; University of Toronto; McMaster University Intern / Co-op Ed Programs for the Fall Term (Sept - Dec 2026)

To Apply: Submit a resume, portfolio, and transcript.

About Redcan Redcan is at the forefront of building agentic AI products and tools that enable our customers to scale their product deployment capability by orders of magnitude. Redcan’s products automate deployment and configuration of complex business processes and requirements, accelerating time to value and reducing cost and complexity of delivering enterprise software products.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute across the stack with hands-on exposure to LLM tool-calling & prompting
• Ship full-stack features in TypeScript: React UI + NestJS/Node.js on the backend
• Improve LLM agent reliability: tool-calling schemas, safe context compaction, retries/observability.
• Add tests (unit/integration), docs, and CI improvements.
• Leave a clean handover at term-end.

What We Look For

• Currently enrolled in a Canadian co-op or internship program, available Jan-Apr 2026.
• Solid CS foundations (data structures/algorithms, problem solving) in any modern language (e.g., C/C++/Java/Python/C#).
• Comfortable with Git/GitHub, reading API docs, writing small, safe PRs, and communicating clearly.
• Experience in AI based development methodologies and tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Replit) and familiarity on how to apply them at Scale and with a Human in the Loop
• Curiosity about the web stack (TypeScript, Node.js, React, NestJS).
• Interest or project exposure with LLM APIs (OpenAI/Bedrock), vector search, or simple Python scripts.
• Basic AWS familiarity (S3/IAM/ECS).

OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION Redcan is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are building products for a diverse world and are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard.. We strongly encourage applications from racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, provincial, or local laws in the regions we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, or internships.

We thank all applicants in advance for applying. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.