Engineering Internship

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with a diverse team to create and enhance an exceptional chess experience.

• Product Engineering: develop features and optimize systems, scaling for a globally recognized top 100 website.

• Product Engineering: play a role in shaping technology, architecture, workflow, and design choices.

• Product Engineering: add to the team's knowledge repository.

• AI/ML Engineering: refine data preprocessing and feature engineering workflows.

• AI/ML Engineering: create, train, and implement machine learning models.

• AI/ML Engineering: integrate machine learning models into Chess.com products.

• AI/ML Engineering: develop AI applications driven by large language models.

⛳️ Requirements

• Passion for chess and a desire to share it globally.

• Multidisciplinary approach; ability to navigate various relevant topics.

• Resilience; strong tolerance for ambiguity during the initial discovery phases.

• Capability to simplify complex projects and provide clear solutions.

• Agile mindset; able to optimize productivity and prepare for future growth.

• Comprehensive understanding of projects and company objectives.

• Innovative thinker who identifies unique technological solutions.

• Logical and intuitive perspective on AI and intelligent agents.

• Chess enthusiast.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Outstanding communicator and collaborative team member.

• Currently enrolled in a degree program at a college or university, or in an equivalent bootcamp.

• Product Engineering: training, relevant coursework, or experience with HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Golang, Java, PHP, web application frameworks, and relational databases, preferably MySQL.

• AI/ML Engineering: solid mathematical foundation and knowledge of traditional machine learning algorithms.

• AI/ML Engineering: training, relevant coursework, or experience with Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, scikit-learn, PyTorch, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, context engineering, evaluations, agentic patterns, SQL, BigQuery, MySQL, or Postgres.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work setup.

• Flexibility to work from any location.

• Opportunity to engage with a multidisciplinary team.

• Chance to influence technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions.

• Opportunity to enhance the team's knowledge base.