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Software Engineering Summer Intern

Participants in the Software Engineering internship program must be based in the United States or Canada.



The opportunity 

Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment. 
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineering intern to join our Engineering team in summer 2023. Interns in our Engineering organization will work on various projects spanning front-end, back-end, full-stack, and mobile engineering. In this role, the intern will help Grammarly tackle some of our most interesting technical challenges and receive real-world experience shipping features to millions of users. 

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.


Your impact

As a Software Engineering Intern, you will help tackle some of Grammarly’s biggest Engineering challenges. In this role, you will:
  • Work on an end-to-end Engineering challenge that directly relates to your team’s high-level goals.
  • Ship code in your first week after orientation!
  • Iterate quickly in a fast-paced environment and leverage your unique point of view to share feedback on product direction.
  • Partner with a mentor to scope, design, and execute on a fully formed project over the duration of your internship. 
  • Collaborate with a strong team of professionals from whom you can learn on a daily basis, especially with a mentor. 
  • Get your hands on a variety of APIs, frameworks, and programming languages. 
  • Learn from all the challenges that come from shipping a product to tens of millions of daily active users.


We’re looking for someone who

  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
  • Can collaborate in person for 1–2 weeks during the summer, traveling if necessary to our San Francisco hub where our teams meet.
  • Is available for the whole duration of a full twelve-week program. 
  • Is currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and in the process of obtaining a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
  • Is passionate about Grammarly’s mission—improving lives by improving communication.
  • Has developed strong computer science fundamentals: CS fundamentals can come from being self-taught, previous internships, what you’ve learned at school, passion projects, and more. However you got there, it’s great for us! 
  • Demonstrates strong communication skills, especially as it relates to technical collaboration.
  • Has proficiency in at least one programming language (Grammarly’s Engineering tech stack includes Java, JavaScript, C#, and Swift, but feel free to apply if your specialty is different!).  
  • Is excited to learn!


Support for you, professionally and personally

  • Professional growth: We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
  • A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.


We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program.

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Kennett Township, New London Township, Pittsburgh City, Shaler Township), South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia 

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario 

Please note that Grammarly’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.