Top Software Engineer Internship in San Francisco, CA

Paid 12-week software engineering internship involving coding and shipping product features, full-lifecycle development, technical training, mentorship, and collaboration on Atlassian cloud and core products. Interns will apply programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals while working with senior engineers. Preferred experience includes prior software engineering projects or internships, AI/ML exposure, and familiarity with design patterns.

Build and ship full-stack AI-powered revenue software using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python. Own projects from concept through deployment, monitoring, and iteration; collaborate with product, design, customers, and engineering; improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and agent efficiency; and contribute to low-latency voice AI, agent development, simulations, evaluations, and feedback systems.

PhD interns apply HCI research and software engineering skills to develop interactive experience design tools. They collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers; translate research into scalable solutions; prototype, validate, document, and deliver production-ready systems; and present their work across functions. The internship focuses on interaction design, animations, state visualization, prototypes, and code-backed experiences.

Build and deploy AI-powered agents and tools that improve software development, testing, debugging, quality assurance, and developer productivity. Prototype applications using pre-trained machine learning models and large language models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, participate in design reviews and code reviews, and develop production-quality software while evaluating innovative approaches to engineering workflows.

Develop and ship a meaningful engineering project, monitor its production deployment, collaborate with a mentor and manager, test and document work, and present results to the engineering organization. The role may involve machine learning, backend or frontend development, APIs, data processing, deployment, and testing using technologies such as Python, Java, JavaScript, AWS, AngularJS, or React.

Software Engineering Interns develop, deploy, test, monitor, and present meaningful production projects during a 12–16 week internship. Interns collaborate with mentors and managers to define projects aligned with team needs, ship code, and verify production performance. Work may involve backend or frontend development, data processing, automated testing, APIs, cloud platforms, and financial technology.

Develop software tools for molecule and protein visualization, machine learning model analysis, and chemical workflow management. Collaborate with machine learning engineers and medicinal chemists to productionize computational methods for molecular property prediction. Help scale infrastructure supporting massive datasets and parallel deep learning and molecular dynamics workloads while maintaining high code quality.

Develop embedded software and firmware for autonomous drones and accessories. Responsibilities include integrating and validating cameras, radios, and flight controllers; bringing up and debugging hardware; and writing sensor, camera, and device drivers. The role involves bare-metal, RTOS, embedded Linux, and Android platforms, with collaboration across hardware and software teams.

Interns will design, implement, test, debug, and document robotics software in C++ and Python within a Linux and ROS/ROS2 environment. They will contribute to scoped projects involving autonomy, navigation, perception, hardware integration, testing, or developer infrastructure. The role includes debugging hardware-software issues, code reviews, cross-functional collaboration, project communication, and a final presentation. Interns work full time onsite in Burlingame, California, with mentorship and structured feedback.

Build and ship impactful features for Notion’s Android and iOS applications during a 12-week internship. Responsibilities include writing clean, secure, tested, documented code; collaborating with mobile engineers; improving app performance, reliability, and user experience; and potentially optimizing web-stack components. Interns work with mentors and cross-functional teammates from Notion’s New York or San Francisco offices.

Build and ship frontend features for Skydio’s browser-based Remote Flight Deck, including live video, telemetry, maps, flight controls, and autonomous drone interfaces. Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and support teams while developing production web applications connected to backend APIs and data systems. Projects may include multi-cockpit views, camera controls, flight-path maps, and augmented-reality subject tracking.

Build four documented Python and Jupyter cookbook recipes demonstrating Arango use cases, including LLM, RAG, embeddings, vector search, and graph database applications. Select use cases, explain business value, develop working code, incorporate engineer feedback, and publish contributions to GitHub. Collaborate remotely with a distributed product and engineering team.

Develop Android mobile interfaces for autonomous drone experiences, including augmented reality, content creation, sharing, and Drone Intelligence API integration. The intern will prototype and refine interfaces, implement polished user experiences, incorporate feedback, and collaborate through code reviews and iterative development.

Participate in a 12-week Salesforce GovCloud internship building and maintaining distributed, cloud-native software services for high-compliance environments. Implement product onboarding, infrastructure, and resilient services within established designs, collaborating with senior engineers to deliver secure, highly available solutions. Receive mentorship, engineering training, and professional development opportunities.

Build core systems at the intersection of software, hardware, and finance. Own full product lifecycles from customer discovery through production deployment, create abstractions for complex legacy systems, and design production-grade LLM solutions for underwriting, compliance, and document processing. The role emphasizes backend systems, infrastructure, architecture, full-stack development, and occasional field travel.

A 12-week software engineering internship involving feature development, software testing, and continuous production deployment. Interns own projects end-to-end, collaborate across engineering and business teams, and receive mentorship while gaining experience with product development and reliable, real-time software systems.

Work on Skydio’s Manufacturing Software team to build tools and systems for producing and testing drones, docks, and accessories. Responsibilities include developing backend, frontend, embedded, hardware-in-the-loop, automated testing, deployment, factory dashboards, calibration processes, and AI-powered hardware triage systems. The role requires cross-functional debugging and strong Python development skills while contributing to manufacturing automation and software-hardware integration.

Build and scale cloud infrastructure and platform systems for autonomous drones. Projects may involve feature flags, backend performance optimization, test frameworks, CI/CD, telemetry, observability, and packaging cloud services for air-gapped or edge environments. The role offers hands-on software development experience across cloud, backend, and infrastructure technologies.

PhD intern will develop graphics and rendering solutions for Figma’s Rendering & Animation team. Responsibilities include building and optimizing shaders, improving anti-aliasing, advancing media processing and animation capabilities, validating prototypes, documenting production-ready systems, and collaborating with engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, and partner teams.

Develop, test, document, maintain, and integrate software applications supporting business needs. Responsibilities include writing clean code, fixing bugs, improving performance, troubleshooting, documenting systems, collaborating with engineers and business analysts, and participating in agile development processes.

Develop software for personalized learning products through design, coding, testing, debugging, and performance tuning. Collaborate independently and within cross-functional engineering teams while applying programming, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills. This is a full-time summer internship based at the company’s San Mateo headquarters.

Software Engineer Intern building production AI-agent systems for insurance workflows. Responsibilities include developing across the stack, working on real-time voice infrastructure and insurance-platform integrations, optimizing live systems, owning features end-to-end, and contributing to product and technical decisions. The role uses TypeScript, React, and Node.js and offers hands-on exposure to real-time systems, AI platforms, and telephony.

Twelve-week software engineering internship building production crypto and blockchain products at Coinbase. Interns write tested code, collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams, participate in code reviews, own an end-to-end project, and learn blockchain concepts. Candidates need programming experience, problem-solving ability, familiarity with web, mobile, backend, or infrastructure development, and responsible generative AI usage with human oversight.

Conduct an open-ended machine learning research project tied to Lyft products. Responsibilities include developing and evaluating reinforcement learning, personalization, and sequential decision-making models; building production-quality ML pipelines; analyzing experiments; collaborating with product and technical teams; communicating findings; and preparing research for publication.

Software engineering interns will complete scoped technical tasks, write tested and documented code, use AI-assisted engineering tools, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to real Pinterest projects. They will work with mentors while developing large-scale systems knowledge and professional communication skills.