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 Blaze
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.
