Software Engineer Intern - Design Systems (Summer)

About Glean

We’re on a mission to make knowledge work faster and more humane. We believe that AI will fundamentally transform how people work. In the future, everyone will work in tandem with expert AI assistants who find knowledge, create and synthesize information, and execute work. These assistants will free people up to focus on the higher-level, creative aspects of their work.

We’re building a system of intelligence for every company in the world. On the surface, you can think of it as Google + ChatGPT for the enterprise. Under the hood, our platform is the connective tissue between AI and knowledge. It brings all of a company’s knowledge together, understands it at a deep level, provides industry-leading search relevance over it, and connects it to generative AI agents and applications.

Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers who saw a need in the enterprise space for their technical depth and passion for AI. We’re a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to help each other get big things done—so we can help other teams do the same.

We’re backed by some of the Valley’s leading venture capitalists—including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, and General Catalyst—and have assembled a world-class team with senior leadership experience at Google, Slack, Facebook, Dropbox, Rubrik, Uber, Intercom, Pinterest, Palantir, and others.

Role

We're seeking a Software Engineer Intern to join our Design Systems team. In this role, you'll contribute to building and improving our design system, enhancing product development efficiency and enabling teams to create intuitive, accessible, and polished user experiences. You’ll have the chance to work on impactful projects that directly enhance the user experience for Glean. This is a hybrid 12 week internship role based out of Palo Alto.

What You'll Do

• Develop reusable UI components for web and mobile platforms
• Implement and maintain design tokens
• Collaborate with designers to translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible components
• Contribute to developing and enhancing our design system's core components and create user-friendly tools to facilitate its implementation across our product ecosystem.
• Work across different functional areas and collaborate with designers, engineers and product managers.

What We're Looking For

• Strong foundation in CS and software development fundamentals
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, Javascript, HTML, and CSS
• Passion for design systems, UI/UX, front end and building reusable, scalable components
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Prior internship, work experience or projects that demonstrate frontend/design systems knowledge is preferred

Why Join Us

• Be part of a diverse team shaping the future of work with AI
• Gain hands-on experience with a production-grade design system
• Work on impactful projects that enhance user experience for millions of users
• Strong learning culture and mentorship opportunities

Benefits

• Healthy meals provided daily
• Company events
• Opportunity to work with senior and staff-level engineers
• Exposure to cutting-edge AI technology and its applications in enterprise solutions