Software Engineering Intern
GPTZero
Date: 23 hours ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Full time
Remote

About GPTZero
GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.
Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, MILA, and Vector.
What We're Looking For
In this role, you'll build the next-gen platform to verify the origin, quality, and factuality of the world's information. The ideal intern candidate is someone who is a voracious learner, has a history of building applications from the ground up, and can break down complex challenges.
You'll be working on a fast-paced team of passionate builders and partnering closely with our ML and design teams, to create industry-defining software that has attracted over 2M users globally. Past intern projects have been the focus of demos to VCs and state-level policy leaders.
Responsibilities
Our Team
You will be working directly with
Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity.
Our Angels and Advisors
GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.
Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, MILA, and Vector.
What We're Looking For
In this role, you'll build the next-gen platform to verify the origin, quality, and factuality of the world's information. The ideal intern candidate is someone who is a voracious learner, has a history of building applications from the ground up, and can break down complex challenges.
You'll be working on a fast-paced team of passionate builders and partnering closely with our ML and design teams, to create industry-defining software that has attracted over 2M users globally. Past intern projects have been the focus of demos to VCs and state-level policy leaders.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy high-impact, intuitive, AI-driven web apps in React, Node, and Tailwind
- Develop top-requested features from our users on our dashboard, chrome extensions, and API
- Utilize product analytics to make data-driven product decisions
- Collaborate with our ML, design, and business teams to develop new product initiatives
- Wear multiple hats and work across the product stack
- Comfortable building end-to-end experiences from backend to CSS
- +2 years of experience with modern web frameworks (Express, Next.js, Typescript, and React)
- +1 years of experience with databases (PostgreSQL, AWS RDS)
- Highly motivated to make positive societal impact
- Work with 5 hours of overlap with Eastern Standard Time
- Bonus:
- strong open-source portfolio
- experience working in an early-stage startup environment
- experience as a peer-edited writer
Our Team
You will be working directly with
- Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML
- Edmond (our fullstack lead) Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University and Editor-in-chief of The Andela Way
- Olivia (our head of design) on translating your research into outputs for millions of users.
- Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.
Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity.
Our Angels and Advisors
- Tom Glocer (Legendary Reuters CEO)
- Mark Thompson (Legendary NYT CEO and current CNN chief executive)
- Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman)
- Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton NLP Professor, co-author of OpenAI’s original GPT paper)
- Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI)
- Doug Herrington (CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores)
- Brad Smith (President of Microsoft)
- Tripp Jones (Partner at Uncork Capital)
- Ali Partovi (co-founder of Code.org, early investor in Dropbox and Airbnb)
- Russ Heddleston (CEO of Docsend)
- Alex Mashrabov (Snapchat, Director of AI)
- Faizan Mehdi (Affinity, Director of Demand Generation)
- Health, dental, and mental health benefits
- Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices
- Competitive salary
- Flexible PTO
- Regular company retreats
- Mentorship opportunities with our world-class team, advisors, and investors
- Wellness and learning stipend
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