About the role#
Nessie Labs is building a shared context layer for recursive companies. We are a small team, and as an intern, you will work directly with the founders. You will own a real piece of the product, ship it to production, and see how users interact with your work. You will receive a scoped project in your first week and contribute to our core infrastructure.
What you'll do#
Your work will focus on one or two of the following areas:
- Data ingestion: Build source connectors for AI chat apps, coding agents, meeting recorders, notes apps, and email.
- Search and retrieval: Make thousands of sessions and documents queryable in milliseconds across local and cloud environments.
- Agent systems: Build self-improving agents by mining traces for failures and workflows, then proposing reviewable edits.
- Agent-facing surfaces: Develop our CLI, MCP connector, and plugins to help AI tools access team context.
- Ontology: Work on derived fields, conflict resolution, and maintaining the live state of a company as new work arrives.
- Product experience: Improve the user experience from first launch through daily feature usage.
What you'll need#
- You have shipped a real project, such as a hackathon build or a personal tool you use daily.
- You are comfortable learning a new stack quickly, as we work across native desktop apps, CLIs, background daemons, and cloud backends.
- You reach for AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex instinctively to move faster.
- You have the instinct to ship before a project is perfect.
- You possess autonomy and problem-solving skills. We provide context and feedback, but you will define the solution to your assigned problems.
- You have opinions on the products you use and how they could be improved.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity, as our product priorities shift quickly.
Location & details#
- Location: San Francisco, California.
- Work Modality: On-site.
- Term: Rolling.
- Compensation: $4,000 to $8,000 per month.
- Benefits: Expensed meals in the office and a flight stipend to San Francisco.
- Employment: This is a full-time, paid internship with a potential path to a full-time offer.
About Nessie Labs
Nessie Labs is a San Francisco based technology company founded in 2025. It provides a shared context layer that captures and syncs AI conversations and agent traces across various tools. This system allows teams and agents to search and reuse past work records. The company operates with a team of three employees.
How to get in at Nessie Labs
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