Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 63,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Travel reimbursement

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking software engineering interns to contribute across product and infrastructure. Interns will be embedded with small, collaborative teams, mentored closely, and will ship meaningful features or tooling by internship end.

The program matches interests to teams and includes housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Interns work on internal infrastructure or user-facing features, with a January 4, 2027 start date in San Francisco or New York hubs.

Qualifications

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language and solid CS fundamentals.
• Strong collaboration and communication with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA.

Responsibilities

• Be fully embedded onto the company engineering team and contribute to team goals.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines.
• Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure.
• Share feedback and participate in peer code review.
• Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship.

Skills

CS fundamentals

Clean code

Team collaboration

Proficiency in at least one language

Education

CS student

Tools

Git

Job description

the company is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. the company’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, the company empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We're looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. At the company, we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests. This year, we're inviting you to share your interests from the start, so we can create the strongest possible match.

Our interns are embedded into small, collaborative engineering teams across the company. You'll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features, tools, or systems. Whether you're working on internal infrastructure or user-facing features, you'll get to learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment.

This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub with a January 4, 2027 start date.

Engineering Interests at the company:

1. Product: Build full stack user facing features, including new collaboration tools, new product workflows, growth oriented experiments, and more
2. Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools, including distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability work, and more
3. Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy/security features
4. Open: I'm flexible and still exploring different types of work

What you'll do at the company:

• Be fully embedded onto a the company engineering team
• Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines
• Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure
• Share feedback and participate in peer code review
• Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!

Some past intern projects:

• Diagramming improvements in FigJam
• Smart selection
• Shared fonts

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects
• Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
• Strong communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer

At the company, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

This internship role is based in either the company’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. the company also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. the company’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Internship

$55—$55 USD

At the company we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. the company is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, r