Artificial Intelligence Applications Developer (Spanish)

This Volunteer Placement is Located in: Lima, Peru

Start Date: November/December 2026

Placement Length: 5 months

Language Requirements: Spanish

Please submit a Spanish Resume and Statement of Interest

Eligibility: Open to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada only

The Volunteer’s Role

Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence and eager to apply your skills where they can create lasting impact? Join Cuso International as a volunteer with CETEMIN, a leading technical education institution preparing the next generation of professionals for Peru's mining sector.

Working alongside local experts, you will help develop innovative AI-powered educational solutions, enhance intelligent learning tools, and strengthen local technical capacity through knowledge sharing. Your expertise will contribute to creating sustainable technology that improves teaching, learning, and workforce development.

This is a unique opportunity to combine cutting-edge AI with meaningful international development, collaborate across cultures, and help shape the future of technical education in Peru. Bring your AI expertise to a project that empowers people, strengthens institutions, and creates lasting change.

As a volunteer, you will:

• Technical assessment of the application: Review the current state of the AI application, its architecture, codebase, integrated models, and technical debt, identifying opportunities for improvement and development priorities.
• Development of new features: Design, code, and deploy new application features, including improvements to the user interface, interaction flows, and AI agent capabilities.
• Integration and optimization of language models: Improve the integration of language models (LLMs), fine-tune prompts, and implement RAG techniques or other strategies to enhance the quality and accuracy of the agent’s responses.
• Technology Transfer and Documentation: Prepare technical documentation for the system, train the internal team on application maintenance and evolution, and propose a technology roadmap for scaling.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Essential Background:

• Experience in software development and programming (Python, JavaScript, or other relevant languages)
• Experience working with language model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or others)
• Experience in database management and data structuring for AI systems
• Ability to document technical systems and transfer knowledge to non-specialized teams

Ready to make a lasting difference? Apply today to share your skills!

Cuso International

Cuso International is an international cooperation and development organization based in Canada that works to create social and economic opportunities for equity-deserving groups. Building on over sixty years of impactful work, we address global challenges by tackling the root causes of inequality. Working alongside our partners, we are focused on efforts to improve economic resilience, advance equity and inclusion for all, and deliver progress on climate action. We believe that by sharing skills, we can build better futures. Guided by our values of courage, inclusion, sustainability and accountability, Cuso combines innovative strategies and enduring partnerships to create lasting, meaningful change in communities across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.

Support Package

• Monthly living allowance
• Accommodation
• Health insurance (including required vaccinations and antimalarial medication)
• Round-trip airfare and visa/work permit costs
• Pre-placement, in-country and reintegration training (along with access to self-directed materials and online resources)
• Ongoing local support
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program during and after placement

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