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Software Engineering Intern

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Software Engineering Intern @ AfterQuery
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Full-time, Internship

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement

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Key responsibilities

  • Build and scale complex data capturing workflows across web and desktop platforms.

  • Architect and optimize high-throughput data pipelines with heavy loads.

  • Collaborate with the founding team to define product strategy and ship features quickly.

Job description

About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.

Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. We are YC's fastest unicorn, valued at $3.2 billion. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.

Why Apply

Massive Opportunity: We are YC's fastest unicorn valued at $3.2 billion and we're not slowing down.

Founding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.

Equity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you'll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.

Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley - work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.

Overview

Working with our core engineering team, you'll be critical in creating data infrastructure that will be shaping the future development of frontier models. You will get a lot of responsibility, owning entire projects end-to-end - meaning you can see your impact instantly.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale complex data capturing workflows across web (Next.js) and desktop (Python)

  • Architect and optimize data pipelines that experience high throughput, with heavy loads

  • Collaborate with the founding team to define product strategy and ship features fast.

  • Set engineering best practices and lay the groundwork for future team growth.

Required Qualifications

  • Able to take a gap semester off and join our team in person in San Francisco

  • Proficiency in JavaScript (Next.js) and Python, with demonstrated experience building full-stack web applications

  • Experience with serverless architecture and cloud functions for implementing heavy data processing (GCP/AWS)

  • Storage, caching & search: Handson with Redis (caching), Elasticsearch (indexing), and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) to build scalable, lowlatency pipelines.

  • Any background in AI research, LLM evaluation, or humanintheloop systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience getting your ideas into production (founder experience preferred)

Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees):

  • Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental

  • 401(k) with Employer Match

  • Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend

  • Monthly Wellness Stipend

  • Commute Covered

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.

We comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. We reserve the right to modify this job description as business needs change.

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