Software Engineering Intern, Wearables - Summer 2026

ALSO • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $30 - $45

About The Position

About ALSO.
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.
As an intern with ALSO you get to work on our next generation of products while gaining valuable knowledge about how world class mobility products are made. We are fine tuning our TM-B products and our vision is to continue improving the product as well as integrating it to other devices that the customer owns. We are providing the ALSO mobile applications for iOS and Android and this internship is all about how this can be expanded to other wearables.

Requirements

• Mobile developer background with wearables or BLE peripheral experience
• Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering or a related field with an expected graduation date in 2027
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a willingness to learn
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate in a fast-paced environment

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with embedded firmware, audio, maps, fitness/health apps or AR are highly praised.
• Swift and Kotlin highly desirable skills and C/C++ firmware is also favorable.

Responsibilities

• You'll prototype the next generation of Also experience extending beyond mobile phones into wearable devices.
• You'll learn from experienced engineers while contributing to real product features that impact customers and our connected fleet
• Collaborate with firmware engineers and backend engineers to make fully running versions of wearable demonstrators
• Get out there and test & dogfood the software, promote within the company and gather feedback that you will iterate on.
• Contribute and document next steps for a potential full product launch of the built demonstrators.
• Work with product managers and designers to maximize the product benefit of the produced code for the wearable device.

Benefits

• Robust health coverage. Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options.
• One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
• Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny.
• Flexible time off.
• 401(k) match.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees