What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer Internship (Summer 2026) position at Chunkr?
What You’ll Do
As an Intern, you will contribute directly to our core product and ecosystem:
Processing millions of pages daily for a diverse customer base.
Deployed in production environments ranging from startups to large enterprises.
Our specialized pipeline achieves state-of-the-art performance on key document tasks. You’ll be working at the cutting-edge.
Backed by experienced founders & operators (Y-Combinator, Jack Altman via Alt Capital, Evan Conrad from SF Compute).
Why Intern at Chunkr?
High Impact: Work on core product features with immediate impact in a small, focused team.
Open Source: Contribute to meaningful open-source projects and build your public profile.Your commits live forever!
Mentorship: Learn directly from experienced founders actively involved in engineering.
Compensation: Competitive stipend, benefits, and potential for a full-time opportunity.
As an Intern, you will contribute directly to our core product and ecosystem:
- Develop and maintain SDKs and internal tools (TypeScript, Python, Rust).
- Enhance our React-based front-end application and user experience.
- Engage with the community via PR’ing Chunkr into other open-source dev tools.
- Build data pipelines for collecting, cleaning, and preparing document data to train CV & specialized small Vision Language Models (VLMs).
- Create technical documentation, usage guides/cookbooks, and blog posts to empower developers.
- Jump into wildfires - tasks like enterprise customer deployment support, or optimizing inference code. Expect curveballs; swing hard.
- Demonstrated ability to ship software, showcased through a portfolio (GitHub, personal projects, deployed applications).
- Proficiency in TypeScript React, and Python. Rust experience is a significant plus.
- Strong technical writing and communication skills (examples like blogs/sharing your work online highly valued).
- An interest in document intelligence challenges (e.g., layout analysis, table extraction, OCR).
- Self-starters comfortable in a fast-paced, small-team environment. Prior startup or OSS contribution experience is beneficial.
Processing millions of pages daily for a diverse customer base.
Deployed in production environments ranging from startups to large enterprises.
Our specialized pipeline achieves state-of-the-art performance on key document tasks. You’ll be working at the cutting-edge.
Backed by experienced founders & operators (Y-Combinator, Jack Altman via Alt Capital, Evan Conrad from SF Compute).
Why Intern at Chunkr?
High Impact: Work on core product features with immediate impact in a small, focused team.
Open Source: Contribute to meaningful open-source projects and build your public profile.Your commits live forever!
Mentorship: Learn directly from experienced founders actively involved in engineering.
Compensation: Competitive stipend, benefits, and potential for a full-time opportunity.
Salary : $70,000 - $120,000