Software Engineering Intern (Edge) – Summer 2027

About the company

Sage provides an AI-powered, fully integrated care platform designed to enhance safety, efficiency, and quality of life in senior living and skilled nursing facilities.

About this role

<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>About Us</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Sage is on a mission to improve care and quality of life for older adults, starting with those residing in senior living facilities. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults over 65. And yet, fall prevention and emergency response systems for older adults are archaic and ineffective. At Sage we've built a more modern way of understanding when older adults need help, including methods for residents to alert caregivers when in need of help, and corresponding software for caregivers to triage response. Our company mission is to create a product that our client counterparts love, and this role is a key part of that objective.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Sage is a small, tight team of ambitious, multi-disciplinary entrepreneurs. We are a software-enabled, mission-driven company, and are focused only on the problems that are central to achieving that mission. At Sage, we work hard and fast but also know that to build a truly important company, we need to treat our work as a marathon, and not a sprint. The journey matters.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>About this Role</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">As a Software Engineering Intern on the Edge team, you will work at the boundary between physical systems installed in senior living communities and the cloud infrastructure that powers the Sage platform. Our edge fleet includes thousands of deployed devices: gateways, sensors, pendants and more that must run reliably in buildings we don't control, on networks we don't manage, for residents who depend on them in emergencies.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>This internship runs Monday, June 7, 2027 to Friday, August 13, 2027.</strong></span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">You will ship production code during your internship. You'll be paired with a senior engineer as your mentor, embed on the team, and present your work to the engineering organization at the end of the summer. Projects may include such work as fleet diagnostic tooling, device telemetry pipelines, or automation that replaces manual operational work.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Design, build, and ship a summer project that solves a real problem for the Edge team, with guidance from your mentor</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Write backend services in Java that interact with a fleet of thousands of on-premise devices</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Work with Linux-based edge devices: flashing, configuring, debugging, and learning how software behaves when the network is unreliable</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build tooling that improves fleet observability and helps the team remotely diagnose hardware and connectivity issues</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Participate in code reviews and design discussions alongside the full engineering team</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Learn how a production IoT system spanning LoRaWAN, BLE, and cloud services actually operates at scale</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Solid programming fundamentals in Java, Python, or another object-oriented language, with willingness to work in Java</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Familiarity with Linux and comfort in a terminal</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Curiosity about how software meets hardware: networking, radios, embedded systems, or IoT (coursework and personal projects count)</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Bias toward tinkering: you've taken something apart, built something scrappy, or debugged something the hard way</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Clear communication and eagerness to ask questions</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Coursework or projects in embedded systems, networking, or RF communication</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with AWS or any cloud platform</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">A personal project involving a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microco