Software Engineering Intern

The role

You will work with the core engineering team to create data infrastructure for frontier model development. You will own entire projects end-to-end and build complex data capturing workflows.

What you will do

• 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
• Demonstrated experience building full-stack web applications
• Experience with serverless architecture and cloud functions for implementing heavy data processing (GCP/AWS)
• Hands‑on with Redis (caching), Elasticsearch (indexing), and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) to build scalable, low‑latency pipelines
• Any background in AI research, LLM evaluation, or human-in-the-loop systems

Nice to have

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

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Daily UberEats Stipend
• Monthly Wellness Stipend

About the company

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. They serve frontier AI labs to deliver data to power models.