Engineering Intern

About Parabola

Parabola builds Prowork, an AI workspace for finance and operations teams. It answers questions, builds reports, and runs recurring processes like inventory reconciliation and invoice audits, with every step of the data and logic visible and editable.

The Program

• Paid engineering internship, in-office cohort in San Francisco and New York.
• Starts January 11, 2027, for 11+ weeks.
• 4 in-office days a week, full-time.
• You will ship to real customers in your first week.
• Program structure:
• Week 1: Ship something real.
• Three 2-week rotations: enterprise, support engineering, and platform on-call.
• 4+ week capstone on the team that fits best.
• Engineering leaders run weekly Friday check-ins.
• Academic credit is available.
• Considered a path to a full-time role.

What We Look For

• Evaluation based on output and impact first, then peer feedback and values.
• Rewarding making large problems smaller, owning "done" through testing, release, and monitoring, and being easy to point at new problems.
• Strong interns tend to stand out in areas such as:
• Architectural intuition
• Domain depth
• Skill with LLM tools
• Independence
• Communication
• A big appetite for learning

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship, now and later.
• Candidates must be able to start a new, full-time, post-grad role in the next 6-8 months.
• To apply, you should be able to start full-time August 2027 or earlier.
• If you still have another year of school/grad school ahead of you, this internship is not a fit at this time.

The Fine Print

• No health insurance, 401(k), nor equity.
• No housing nor relocation stipend.
• No paid vacation; unpaid days off by arrangement.
• Company holidays are paid, and sick leave follows local law.
• Full-time conversion is the goal but not guaranteed.
• Offers may be in support engineering, applied AI, infrastructure/SRE, or full-stack.
• No visa sponsorship, for the internship or a full-time role at this time.