What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Intern position at Tacit?
About Tacit
We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. We are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Greylock Partners, with a founding team from Stanford, BrainGate, Oculus, and Tesla. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.
About The Role
We're seeking a motivated Software Engineering Intern to help prototype and productize the next generation of human-computer interfaces. This role offers hands-on experience across front-end, back-end, and dev tools, with a focus on building polished user-facing applications and supporting internal research workflows. You’ll work directly with a tight-knit, high-caliber team of engineers, designers, and researchers to bring new interaction paradigms to life. We are an early-stage, stealth tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.
What You'll Do
We are an early-stage, deep tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. We are backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Greylock Partners, with a founding team from Stanford, BrainGate, Oculus, and Tesla. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.
About The Role
We're seeking a motivated Software Engineering Intern to help prototype and productize the next generation of human-computer interfaces. This role offers hands-on experience across front-end, back-end, and dev tools, with a focus on building polished user-facing applications and supporting internal research workflows. You’ll work directly with a tight-knit, high-caliber team of engineers, designers, and researchers to bring new interaction paradigms to life. We are an early-stage, stealth tech startup based in San Francisco, developing innovative hardware that rethinks human-computer interaction. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, our team is tackling cutting-edge engineering challenges to bring revolutionary products to life.
What You'll Do
- Build applications for web, mobile, and embedded clients that interact with our hardware.
- Develop backend services for real-time interaction and data streaming.
- Create internal tools for data labeling, visualization, and debugging.
- Rapidly prototype new user experiences for novel input methods.
- Work closely with full-time engineers to ship stable, high-performance software.
- Document and clearly present engineering findings and design decisions.
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, Linux, command-line development
- Independent work ethic, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable in fast moving startup environment, excited to build independently