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CompanyKnightec Group Sweden
LocationSundsvall
Work ModeOn Site
PostedOctober 14, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The candidate will develop an AI agent to diagnose failed CI/CD pipeline builds and evaluate its performance across various Azure execution environments. The research will focus on optimizing for startup time, cost, and security against prompt-injection attacks.
Internship Type
intern
Company Size
2987
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Knightec Group is a global strategic partner in product and digital service development, operating at the intersection of business and engineering. We help companies tackle complex challenges by combining business strategy with technology development. By bringing deep business understanding together with world-class engineering, we help organisations close the gap between strategy and execution – turning new technologies into real business impact. We support our clients throughout the entire development journey – from early insights and strategy to engineering, industrialisation, compliance, and transformation. With experience across multiple industries, we combine perspectives from different domains to solve complex challenges and apply new technology where it creates the greatest value. Our strength lies in our people – 2,500 professionals from more than 40 nationalities across Sweden, Norway, and Brazil. Together, we support more than 200 clients worldwide and deliver over 750 projects every year. By connecting perspectives across industries, disciplines, and geographies, we create an environment where both people and businesses grow.
About the Role

High Level Description
This thesis project investigates where AI agents should run inside Azure CI/CD pipelines. The study compares execution environments for an agent that diagnoses failed builds, focusing on startup time, cost per task, and resistance to prompt-injection attacks, without compromising the quality of the diagnoses.


Project Description
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Who are we looking for?

  • Bachelor/Master of Science student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science or related fields.

  • Graduation in June 2027

  • Fluency in Swedish, both written and spoken

  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken 

  • The candidate should be comfortable with Git, basic CI/CD concepts, Python (or a similar scripting language) and containers. No prior Azure experience is required.

Purpose
CI/CD pipelines produce large volumes of unstructured logs, and diagnosing failed builds costs developers time. AI agents can suggest a root cause, but they read untrusted text and may call tools, so a manipulated agent can leak secrets or act beyond its remit. Where the agent runs therefore matters for cost, speed and security.

The candidate will build one simple failure-triage agent and run it unchanged in several Azure environments: the pipeline agent (baseline), a standard container on Azure Container Apps, Container Apps Sandboxes, and optionally a Foundry Hosted Agent. It will process logs from failed open-source CI runs and face a suite of prompt-injection attacks in a dedicated test subscription.

The supervisor provides Azure budget and model API access, and no company data is used.

An Exciting Journey with Knightec Group
Semcon and Knightec have joined forces as Knightec Group. Together, we are Northern Europe’s leading strategic partner in product and digital service development. With a unique combination of cross-functional expertise and a holistic business understanding, we help our clients realize their strategies – from idea to complete solution.

Practical Information
This is a thesis position, located at our office in Sundsvall. Start date January or March 2027.

Please submit your application as soon as possible, but no later than 2026-11-30. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact johanna.edstrom@knightec.se. Note that due to GDPR, we only accept applications through our careers page.

Key Skills
PythonGitCI/CDContainersAzureData ScienceComputer ScienceComputer EngineeringLog AnalysisSecurityPrompt Engineering
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