Software Engineering Internship, Kaluza
£30k
Salary is pro-rata
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Posted today
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Posted today
£30k
Salary is pro-rata
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help decarbonise the world.
Role
Who you are
- Are You Who We’re Looking For?
- We value a bias for action. We want self-starters who would rather build something scrappy and highly useful today than spend weeks over-architecting something that never ships
- Background: Currently studying for or recently completed a BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/Machine Learning, or a closely related technical field
- AI-Native Mindset: You are genuinely curious about AI. You actively use AI coding tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) in your day-to-day work and constantly think about what they make possible
- High Ownership: You thrive in a fast-paced scale-up environment and are comfortable working semi-autonomously
- Mission-Driven: You care deeply about climate change and energy, and want to be part of the solution
- Communicator: You can take a complex technical architecture and explain it clearly to any audience
What the job involves
- Length: 8-10 weeks
- Team: Flex
- Reporting To: James Lewis
- Closing date for applications: 1st July 2026
- Kaluza AI Labs Intern Programme: Engineering (Flex)
- What Is it?
- Kaluza AI Labs is a targeted 8-10-week summer internship programme. The programme will bring 1-2 high-potential AI and technical students into Kaluza's Engineering Team
- This is not a traditional internship, but rather a two-way innovation exchange. Students will work on live, high-impact problems, while Kaluza learns how to operate as a truly AI-native organisation from the people building the future of it
- The Opportunity: Shape the Future of Climate Tech
- Kaluza sits at the intersection of energy and technology. As electrification accelerates, the platforms managing flexibility and infrastructure are becoming critical
- The intelligence layer running these platforms will define who wins the energy transition
- For the best technical minds graduating today, impact isn't a bonus—it’s the baseline
- If you want your work to genuinely matter, the energy transition sits squarely at the top of that list. Kaluza is where that work happens, and we need AI-native thinking to achieve our vision
- What’s In It For You?
- Real Stakes: Work on live briefs at Europe’s leading climate tech company
- AI-Native Building: Use cutting-edge AI coding tools to move further and faster than traditional engineering methods allow
- Mentorship: You’ll be paired with a Machine Learning Engineer, a Project Sponsor from our Flex team, and receive strategic oversight from David Richards (Head of Engineering for Flex)
- Future Pathway: This pilot is a direct pipeline for early talent; successful completion offers a potential pathway to a full-time role at Kaluza
- The Journey:
- Week 1: Onboarding & Orientation | Immersion into Kaluza’s products, tech stack, and your problem brief
- Weeks 2-3: Discovery Sprint | Codebase familiarisation, architecture review, and shaping your technical approach
- Weeks 4-6: Build & Apply | The core of the fellowship. Building, iterating, and shipping
- Week 7: Synthesis | Finalise deployments, document your code, and prepare your outputs
- Week 8: Demo Day | Present your work to the Engineering Team and Kaluza leadership, followed by feedback and graduate offer conversations
- Potential Project Areas:
- You will embed within our Flex organisation, where Kaluza builds advanced energy optimisation and flexibility capabilities. Projects focus on data science and machine learning initiatives, such as:
- Flexibility forecasting
- Device group optimisation
- Battery optimisation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Progressive leave policies - including leave dedicated to the moments that matter to you the most
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- 26 days holiday
- Kaluza Share Scheme
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
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Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at OVO Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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