The Blaze "No AI Summer" Internship

The role

We are excited to open applications to our “No AI Summer” internship.

We invite dedicated late-college or early career candidates to apply for this role. You’ll be a great fit for this role if you:

• are excited to tackle complex problems
• enjoy engaging with users and solving their problems
• love building and creating
• are high-performing and driven

Also, you aren’t allowed to use AI. At all. All summer.

We want to train you, not LLMs, to become an excellent full-stack engineer. You’ll spend the summer tackling hard challenges and learning. It will be a lot of work, but you’ll have the opportunity to really develop yourself.

Tech stack

• Primarily JavaScript based. Some Python.
• React is our primary web front end.
• GCP is our Cloud Provider

Hmmm… Why “No AI”?

Over the past two years we have seen as an industry an over-reliance on AI tools that have limited growth and development of new junior engineers. Once you move beyond simple tasks, this over-reliance can lead to poor quality work and wasted time for all involved.

We want rockstars on our team to help us build amazing products – (ironic em-dash) to do that we’re banning AI in this internship.

So… You guys must really hate AI?

Not at all. AI is a very helpful tool. You can get a double-digit productivity improvement using it. We use it extensively. Part of our product suite is AI. Don’t apply if you hate AI.

About us

We’re a global company and hire around the world.

We build productivity products, our primary product is Text Blaze with over 700,000 users with a 4.9/5 ★ rating with 1,800 reviews. The team works hard to make our products simple but also extremely powerful. To make this happen there are a lot of challenges and difficult tradeoffs in our work. We want to work hard with you to help you become a great engineer who thinks critically and can do amazing work.

If you’re interested in joining, reach out. We’re a small team and you have the potential to have a high impact. This application role is for junior developers, but we’re also hiring for senior roles.

Application

Please send a short cover letter/note that shares:

• a coding project you are proud of (with link)
• an impressive achievement of yours (can be academic, coding related, business related, or personal)
• how you would take advantage of our “No AI Summer”

This note should be no longer than five sentences.