Engineering Intern, Checkr
$35 - $35 USD per hour
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Automated background checks
Be an early applicant
Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$35 - $35 USD per hour
More information about location
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- Familiarity with Ruby, Python, and/or SQL
- Enthusiasm and interest in AI
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and pride in your work
- Self-awareness and a desire to better yourself
- Curiosity about how and why things work
- Recently completed or are graduating in Spring 2025 with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or a related field
What the job involves
- Checkr is looking for Summer 2026 Engineering Interns to join us for 10 weeks and work on high-value engineering projects that will deliver real-world impact to our customers, candidates, and engineering organization
- Inevitably, issues arise within Checkr and external systems, prolonging the background check process which delays candidate's access to employment, housing, and financial opportunities
- When you join our team, you will learn how to leverage AI as a productivity enhancer and how to deliver AI-integrated solutions to improve issue visibility, increase system resiliency, and create powerful tools that enable non-Engineering stakeholders to unblock candidates
- Checkr’s internship program is an amazing opportunity for anyone who is pursuing a career in software development and wishes to learn from a diverse cultural perspective
- We are looking for candidates who have a strong understanding of engineering principles and who are interested in learning about generative AI and system scalability
- Our interns will embody Checkr’s core values of grit, ownership, humility, transparency, and connection as you push to deliver value over the summer
- We’re hiring across 5 engineering teams:
- Software Engineering: gain experience in enhancing systems to streamline operations, improve resilience, and develop tools that empower stakeholders. Learn about Ruby, React, automation, and scalability
- Product Foundations: gain experience building platform capabilities in high-throughput microservices that will be used throughout the Checkr ecosystem. Learn about microservices architecture, API design, database optimization, service scalability, and building reusable infrastructure components that power multiple teams and services
- Platform Engineering: gain experience in finding ways to increase automation in incident response and cloud infrastructure. Learn about AWS, containers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, incident response, observability, and AI tools
- Data Engineering: gain experience working on production-grade data pipelines and make a meaningful impact on how we ship analytics code at Checkr. Learn how top startups build and innovate upon a modern data tech stack of Airflow, dbt data modeling, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Large Language Models (LLMs)
- AI/ML Engineering: gain experience working on ML, AI, observability, fine-tuning, and RAG, while defining success metrics. Learn about how top startups build scalable ML/AI models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLMs), and dataset splitting strategies
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $556.8m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(Co-Founder)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(Co-Founder & CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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