Forward Deployed Engineering Intern

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3h • $20 - $35 • Remote

About The Position

This is a forward deployed engineering internship: engineering pointed directly at real workflow problems rather than at a backlog. You will sit close to the people who actually use our product, including customers and our own internal operators, find where the work breaks down, and build the scripts, integrations, and internal tools that fix it. A good week here might mean debugging why an enrichment pipeline is returning the wrong person, wiring an integration between two systems that were never meant to talk, and then explaining to a non-technical operator what changed and why. The role suits someone who likes the practical half of engineering: shipping something small that removes a real bottleneck today, rather than a perfect abstraction that lands next quarter. You will need to be comfortable with ambiguity, because the problem is often not defined before you go looking at it.

Requirements

• Strong coding fundamentals in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a similar language.
• Comfort working with APIs, data, scripts, and technical debugging.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-engineers.
• Genuine interest in customer-facing or operations-facing engineering work.
• Resourceful and practical, comfortable solving ambiguous problems without a fully specified brief.
• Self-directed and comfortable working in a remote startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal tools, scripts, and automations that solve real operational bottlenecks.
• Work with APIs, data pipelines, and integrations between systems, including debugging them when they misbehave.
• Sit with users, customers, and internal operators to find where workflows actually break, then fix the underlying cause.
• Investigate data quality problems and trace them back to their source.
• Explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical teammates.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed