Founding Intern (Software Engineering)

About this Opportunity

Founding Engineering Intern (Software)

Impact. Ship core product with the founders, talk to users, and move metrics weekly.

Growth. Work across frontend, backend, and tooling. Own projects end-to-end.

Location. On-site in San Francisco. Housing and food covered.

What you’ll do

• Build and ship features in React + TypeScript for our Chrome extension and web app

• Talk to users, run quick experiments, and iterate fast

• Instrument analytics, track retention, and fix what breaks

• Help with community events and product launches

• Create internal tools and scripts to speed up development

You might be a fit if you

• Know React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling

• Enjoy owning ambiguous problems and shipping fast

• Can read docs, debug with intent, and write clear code/reviews

• Communicate well and like small teams, high autonomy

Nice to have: Electron, Chrome Extensions, Node/Edge APIs, browser storage, auth, analytics, LLM APIs, prompt/agent patterns.

Role details

• Type: Full-time internship, on-site

• Where: San Francisco office, live/work with the team

• Start date: Flexible, as soon as possible

About TypeOS

• Founded by an 18-year-old high-school dropout; raised $500k from Y Combinator

• Previous company’s AI grading tool reached 10M views/month

• Building TypeOS, the first AI Chrome Extension that helps students and professionals learn and work faster across Google Docs and the web—Grammarly + ChatGPT in one tool

Why join

• Direct mentorship from founders, zero bureaucracy

• Ship visible work used daily by real users

• Speed, ownership, and learning over titles

Compensation Range: $100K - $150K