Engineering Internship

About Chess

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.

You can learn more about us here: Chess Is For Everyone!

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.)

Benefits

• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

About the Opportunity

This is a full-time position

This role is open to applicants who can work in the USA or Canada