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As a Software Engineer Intern at Moloco, you will contribute to developing and enhancing ML-based ad-serving platforms, working on backend systems, data pipelines, and collaborative feature design.
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About Moloco:

Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name—short for "machine learning company"—reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.

Built with AI from day one, Moloco’s planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media and Streaming Monetization solutions enable retailers, marketplaces, and streaming platforms to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

The Impact You’ll Be Contributing to Moloco:

We are an engineering company founded by engineers. We understand the value of a strong engineering team and strive to hire only the best engineering interns.

We are seeking exceptional interns to join us in building a next-generation ML-based ad-serving platform to satisfy the various needs of our customers. As an intern, you can expect to be a full member of the team you join and will be treated as a junior engineer with the same expectations, project opportunities and responsibilities. Some examples of past intern projects are:

  • Adding features to our high-performance, low-latency backend servers
  • Enhancing our system in various aspects including but not limited to scalability, availability, and performance. 
  • Developing novel improvements to pricing theory and/or algorithms
  • Designing / planning / shipping new features in collaboration with other engineers, PMs and UI Designers.
  • Developing internal tools to enhance developer productivity and system efficiency.
  • Turning unstructured logs, messages, and events into structured data that can be utilized for analytics, ML, and more.
  • Designing and implementing the backend data pipelines for manipulating and managing big data.
  • Developing APIs to deliver and / or demonstrate the results of advertising campaigns to customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Able and willing to work from our Seattle, WA or Redwood City, CA office.
  • Must be able to work full-time (40-hours per week) for 12-weeks during the summer of 2026 (May - September).
  • Actively enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master’s or PhD program in Computer Science, or a related technical field during the internship.
  • Candidates pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree must be graduating and obtaining their degree by June of 2027.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Strong background in data structures and algorithms.
  • Strong coding and problem solving skills.
  • Familiar with distributed systems and/or databases.
  • Fluent with at least one programming language for server development like C/C++, Java, Go, Rust.

For more information about our internship program, visit our website: Moloco Internship Program.

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being: 

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. We offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.

Moloco Values: 

  • Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success. 
  • Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible. 
  • Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value. 
  • Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail. 

Additional Resources: 

  • Moloco Company Blog 
  • Moloco Leadership
  • Moloco Newsroom 

Equal Opportunity: 

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidate Privacy Notice:

Your privacy matters to us. By applying, you acknowledge that you’ve reviewed our Candidate Privacy Notice.

Top Skills

C/C++
Go
Java
Rust
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Moloco Redwood, California, USA Office

601 Marshall St., Redwood, CA, United States, 94063

Moloco San Francisco, California, USA Office

88 Kearny St 21st Floor, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94108

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