[Hiring] Software Engineering Intern @Brave

Role Description

Brave is hiring 2 Software Engineer interns this fall from Waterloo University to assist adding AI, security and privacy features to our products.

Software Developer Co-op - Internship Role One

Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of data-intensive systems and AI-powered services.

• Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading structured and unstructured data across internal systems
• Develop backend services and tooling in Python and TypeScript to support data processing workflows and API integrations
• Integrate and optimize LLM inference pipelines, including prompt engineering, model serving, and evaluation of large language model outputs
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes, including writing manifests, configuring autoscaling, and troubleshooting cluster issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve data quality, pipeline reliability, and system observability

Software Developer (Privacy) Co-op - Internship Role 2

Contribute to the design, development, and shipping of privacy and security features in the Brave browser (based on Chromium), bringing cutting-edge protections to 115M+ users without breaking the Web.

• Prototype, implement, and ship privacy-enhancing features end-to-end in C++ or Rust for the Brave browser
• Build browser-native privacy protections, privacy-enhancing permissions, and anti-fingerprinting defenses
• Navigate and contribute to an extremely large, complex codebase, applying knowledge of the Web security model and Chromium's architecture
• Work with Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to develop and validate browser features
• Collaborate async with a geographically-distributed, open source team using Git and GitHub

Benefits

• Ability to work at an exciting and well-funded international startup headquartered in San Francisco
• Cutting-edge technology, allowing you to work with state-of-the-art tools and software solutions
• Competitive compensation of $6000.00 per month for 3 months
• Great international exposure and team atmosphere