Software Engineering Internship

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students
• •any year, degree program, or major
• •authorized to work in the United States
• •strong programming fundamentals
• •ability to learn unfamiliar tools and systems quickly
• •demonstrated abilities through ambitious projects, research, open-source contributions, internships, or exceptional coursework
• •comfortable with uncertainty
• •ability to figure out what to build before determining how to build it
• •ability to think in systems and feedback loops
• •ability to move fast and slow
• •ability to prototype ideas in hours
• •ability to develop promising ideas to a high-quality bar
• •ability to reason clearly about technical decisions
• •ability to communicate thinking
• •bias for action
• •comfortable working across abstraction layers
• •ability to learn quickly
• •strong fundamentals
• •strong engineering taste
• •strong judgment
• •ability to execute
• •ability to work directly with the CTO
• •ability to take on broader ownership
• •ability to work end to end
• •ability to validate ideas before full implementation
• •ability to build AI-driven systems
• •ability to translate ambiguous problems into concrete experiments, constraints, and working systems
• •ability to contribute to engineering standards around testing, reliability, and code quality
• •ability to collaborate with subject-matter experts and customers
• •ability to work in fast-moving environments
• •ability to become world-class at AI engineering
• •ability to design, prototype, and productionize AI-powered systems from first principles
• •ability to own a well-scoped project
• •ability to ship to production
• •ability to work across abstraction layers
• •ability to work from low-level system reasoning to high-level product interactions
• •ability to work in-person in San Francisco, California
• •ability to start dates are flexible
• •ability to accommodate summer internships, semester-long internships, and co-op schedules
• •ability to receive relocation support as needed

Desired Qualifications

• •Experience building complex agentic products, infrastructure, or autonomous systems
• •Strong testing intuition, including experience with TDD or property-based testing
• •Experience building and maintaining production-grade software
• •Exposure to legacy systems (especially mainframes or COBOL), compilers, program analysis techniques, or high-performance computing (HPC)
• •Familiarity with enterprise software constraints