Rushikonda IT SEZ in Visakhapatnam has a Junior Voice Assistant Developer internship, on site, with a software team building conversational interfaces integrated with platforms like Alexa and Google Assistant. No prior professional experience is required, though the team wants a candidate who's built or at least experimented with a voice skill or conversational flow before, even a rough personal project.
The work covers writing and maintaining application code for voice assistant integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams on new conversational features, and fixing bugs found during testing, which in voice interfaces often means dealing with misheard intents and ambiguous phrasing that a purely visual interface would never have to handle. Designing a good voice flow is a genuinely different skill from designing a good screen, and this internship is built to teach that difference through real practice.
Required skills are familiarity with voice AI platforms such as Alexa or Google Assistant, basic NLP concepts, and API integration experience. A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with proficiency in the relevant programming languages and tools for this role at an entry level.
Rushikonda IT SEZ has become a growing pocket of Visakhapatnam's tech scene, and this particular team works on voice interfaces for a client base spanning customer service automation and smart device integration, giving interns exposure to more than one application of the same underlying technology.
Naukri Mitra has listed a handful of internship roles from this employer, and past interns describe the most useful skill they picked up as writing test cases specifically for how real users phrase things unpredictably, since a voice interface that only handles the exact phrasing a developer expected breaks constantly in actual use.
Interviews include a small take-home exercise designing a basic voice interaction flow and a conversation about your approach. Candidates who think through ambiguous user phrasing during the exercise, rather than assuming users will phrase things perfectly, tend to do well.
The Visakhapatnam office itself is a fairly typical mid-size setup, with the Software Development team sharing space with a couple of other functions rather than occupying a dedicated floor. That layout means visibility works both ways: good work gets noticed by people outside the immediate team faster than it might at a larger, more siloed employer, and so do mistakes.
A voice command that works perfectly in a quiet test room sometimes fails completely in a noisy real environment, and interns here are expected to test flows with genuine background noise from early on, rather than assuming a clean lab result will hold up once real users start talking to the assistant.
This internship typically runs four to five months, and past interns describe the shift from following a script to genuinely designing conversational flows independently as happening around the two-month mark, once they've built enough intuition for how unpredictably real users actually phrase things.
Interns present their conversational flow designs to the wider team for informal critique before implementation, a step the team added after realizing that flows which seemed obviously clear to their designer sometimes confused a fresh pair of eyes immediately, exactly the kind of blind spot a real user would also hit.
This internship is based at Rushikonda IT SEZ, Visakhapatnam, pin code 530045, five days a week on site. The stipend is up to ₹15,000 a month. The team hopes to start someone within three weeks.