About the Role

As a Software Engineer intern, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience of our AI-powered platform. You will play a crucial role in solving complex interaction design challenges by creating innovative and intuitive interfaces that redefine how users interact with AI. Forget the limitations of typical chat windows; we're talking about breaking free from traditional, turn-based chat paradigms to create dynamic, highly interactive experiences where conversations evolve beyond simple text. This is a unique opportunity to conceive and develop groundbreaking human-computer interaction concepts from the ground up, moving beyond static Q&A to rich, responsive, and adaptive interfaces. Your work will have a direct impact on our users, enabling them to engage with AI in ways previously unimaginable, and will significantly influence the future of our growing engineering organization.

What You’ll Do

• Design and architecture for new and existing software components.
• Take end-to-end ownership of new code from prototype to production.
• Participate in architecture reviews, identify risks, and advocate for simplicity of design.
• Ship production-grade code to daily active users.
• As part of our small team, you’ll not only contribute but also gain a unique, behind-the-scenes view of a startup’s full journey — influencing our growth from the ground up.
• Work on fun and technically challenging projects to deliver impactful projects on popular browsers.
• Contributing to a team that upholds high standards of engineering excellence.
• Build cool things!

Our Stack

• TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Redis, Google Cloud, serverless architecture.
• React and Tailwind or similar UI frameworks are a plus, but a strong grasp of web API fundamentals is even more important.
• You should be proficient with native CSS, DOM, etc, and not only high-level frameworks.
• Experience with Chrome extensions is a plus.

What We Require

• You have passion and expertise for building things. 
• One or more years of experience as a software engineer or have built significant side projects independently that demonstrate strong technical skills, creativity, and initiative.
• Power user of applications powered by LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini, CoPilot, Cursor).
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (with a preference for TypeScript) and/or Python are essential.
• Understanding fundamental React principles is a plus.
• A knack for solving complex problems with simple solutions.
• Working knowledge of building secure systems and implementing industry-standard security best practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Working on-site in the Menlo Park office.

Working at Ventrilo.ai

• Build a new AI product from zero to one.
• A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to make a tremendous impact.
• Ventrilo.ai is an equal-opportunity employer.