Engineering Internship

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

Above all, you love chess and want to share it with the world! You also naturally resonate with a variable mix of the following qualities, and are eager to learn how all of these qualities can be foundational to your career:

We currently have internship opportunities in two engineering focus areas, Product Engineering or AI/ML Engineering.  For each area you’ll have an opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team to design and build the best possible chess experience using the most relevant software or data engineering principles.

• →Build features and optimize systems, scaling for a global top 100 website
• →Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions
• →Contribute to the team knowledge-base

• →Optimize data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines
• →Develop, train, and deploy ML models, and integrate them into Chess.com products
• →Build AI applications powered by LLMs

• Chess player
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Excellent communicator and team player
• Degree-seeking student currently enrolled at a college or university or equivalent bootcamp

• Training, relevant coursework or experience with:
• • client side programming languages (HTML, CSS, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin) 
  • backend programming languages (Golang/Java/PHP preferred)
  • web application frameworks
  • relational databases (MySQL preferred)

• Strong math foundation and understanding of traditional ML algorithms
• Training, relevant coursework or experience with:
• • Python or another programming language (TypeScript/Go/Java preferred)
  • ML libraries and frameworks such as scikit-learn or PyTorch
  • LLMs/RAG/context engineering/evals/agentic patterns
  • SQL (BigQuery, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)

• This is a full-time position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
• This role is open to applicants who can work in the USA or Canada

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You can learn more about us here:

• Chess Is For Everyone!
• Our Values