Brilliant is seeking highly motivated interns to join their engineering team to contribute to real work on real priorities, affecting real users, and to help them serve millions of paid subscribers.
Requirements
- Have shipped substantial code to production at a company serving real customers
- Have prior internship experience at a startup, and/or created a side-project or small business that required dedication over a span of months/years
- Consistently use AI when coding, while having a deep, nuanced understanding of limitations/pitfalls + what great code looks like
- Are already excellent at your craft, and want to be surrounded by people who will push you even further
Responsibilities
- You'll be working in-person in our NYC office
- The exact work is TBD, based on our priorities and your skillset.
- What we know is that it will be real work, on real priorities, affecting real users — not “intern projects”.
- You need to be able (and excited) to hit the ground sprinting, which likely means that you’ve shipped substantial code into a production environment before (either at another startup or for a scaled side-project).
- By the end of the internship, if all goes well, you’ll have made a material impact on our customers and the future of learning.
- You’ll have meaningfully up-leveled because of who you get to work with, and hopefully we’ll be mutually eager for you to start full-time ASAP.
Other
- By default, interns will join in Summer 2026.
- That said, we’re open to off-cycle internships for the right candidate.
- You’ll be working in-person in our NYC office, with a pay-rate of $2,500/week.
- Want to work at Brilliant full-time, and are graduating in 2027 (or sooner, or are planning to drop out)
- Specifically want to join a small company where every person works very hard and has outsized ownership
- Are driven by building useful things that impact real people (versus creating hype without utility)
- Are an excellent writer + reader (because we have a writing-heavy culture)
