Software Engineer Intern

Location: New York City Department: Engineering Employment Type: Intern Location Type: Remote

Introduction We value candidates who have significant experience with managing complexity, working independently, and are motivated by hard problems.

What We Offer

The ability to have real impact on mission-critical workflows

The chance to use state-of-the-art tech to solve novel problems with mission partners

The opportunity to define your role through time as we grow

Competitive salary and equity upside with annual merit refreshes based on impact

Position Overview

As a Software Engineer Intern, you’ll work alongside our engineering team to build ConductorAI’s core application: a user-facing web platform for large-scale document search, review, and AI-powered workflows. You’ll contribute to real production systems, including document-processing pipelines, agentic workflow execution, database scaling, and applications that push state-of-the-art LLMs to their limits.

This is a product engineering role as much as a systems role. You’ll help design and build intuitive interfaces for complex, document-centric workflows and see how the software you build is used to solve real problems across defense, government, and regulated commercial environments.

You won’t be confined to low-stakes intern projects. You’ll be trusted with meaningful work on our product’s critical path and given the opportunity to own features from problem definition through implementation. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers who will provide mentorship and technical guidance while giving you the autonomy to experiment, learn quickly, and take on increasingly challenging problems.

We’re looking for interns with strong computer science fundamentals, a generalist mindset, and the curiosity and drive to learn new technologies quickly. You’ll join a small, tight-knit technical team where interns work directly alongside full-time engineers and have meaningful visibility into how an early-stage company builds products, makes technical decisions, and scales.

This internship is intended to be a pathway to future opportunities at ConductorAI. Strong performers may have the opportunity to return for additional internships or co-ops or join the team full-time after graduation.

Location

This internship is open to candidates based in the US, with a strong preference for candidates who can work from our NYC or DC offices for the summer. Key Responsibilities

Build and improve search, review, and AI-powered agents for accuracy and consistency

Build polished, reliable user-facing features in our Next.js/React application

Develop backend APIs, data models, and workflow execution paths that support responsive frontend experiences

Write high-quality, maintainable code alongside a small team of experienced engineers

Contribute to the design and architecture of production systems

Own meaningful features and technical problems from initial idea through implementation

Work closely with engineers, product teammates, and users to understand problems and help translate them into product improvements

Learn quickly, ask thoughtful questions, and take increasing ownership as you become familiar with our product and codebase

Qualifications

US citizenship required; this role supports work subject to US government contract obligations and export control regulations (ITAR/EAR)

Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

Strong computer science fundamentals and demonstrated software engineering ability through internships, coursework, research, projects, or other experience

Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, with an ability and willingness to work across our Python and TypeScript/React stack

Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Product-minded approach with an interest in building software that is intuitive and useful

Proactive, high-ownership mindset and willingness to tackle challenging, ambiguous problems

Nice to Haves

Previous software engineering internship or meaningful experience building and shipping software

Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, or Next.js

Experience building with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, or other AI engineering techniques

Experience with backend systems, APIs, databases, or distributed systems

Familiarity with document processing or search/retrieval systems

Experience contributing to open-source software, research, technical clubs, hackathons, or substantial personal projects

Experience working in a startup or other fast-paced technical environment

Interest in defense, intelligence, national security, or other complex operational domains

Active or current security clearance