Engineering Internship

**About Us**

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

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 250M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

**About You**

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:

• Multidisciplinary: ability to switch between relevant subject matter with relative ease.
• Resilient: high tolerance for ambiguity during initial discovery phases in projects.
• Ability to simplify: absorb inherent complexity within your projects, and cut through the complexity to offer more simplified solutions.
• Agile: able to maximize output/productivity + future-proof for further growth.
• Holistic understanding: see how the various parts work within the whole of a project, and how the overall project combines the distinct parts to achieve the high level goals; also see how the project fits within the greater whole of the company.
• Unorthodox thinker: find novel solutions to the limitations inherent in every technology.
• Logical and intuitive: adhere to logical thought processes while remaining in tune with your own intuition or gut feeling while steering and yielding from AI and Agents.

**What you’ll do as an Intern**

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.

**What you’ll do as a Product Engineer Intern**

• 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

**What you’ll do as an AI/ML Intern**

• 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

**Preferred Skills for All Internship Opportunities**

• 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

**Preferred Skills for Product Engineer Intern**

• 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)

**Preferred Skills for AI/ML Engineer Intern**

• 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.)

**About the Opportunity**

• 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!](https://www.chess.com/everyone)
• [Our Values](https://www.chess.com/jobs#values)