# Software Engineering Intern at AfterQuery

- Company: AfterQuery
- What the company does: AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://afterquery.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Internship
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-11-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/afterquery/83ca470d-b1f7-41d6-935f-c1f2b8243e4b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/afterquery-software-engineering-intern/

## About the role

Working with our core engineering team, you’ll be critical in creating data infrastructure that will be shaping the future development of frontier models. You will get a lot of responsibility, owning entire projects end-to-end – meaning you can see your impact instantly. Build and scale complex data capturing workflows across web (Next.js) and desktop (Python)

## What they're looking for

- Able to take a gap semester off and join our team in person in San Francisco
- Proficiency in JavaScript (Next.js) and Python, with demonstrated experience building full-stack web applications
- Experience with serverless architecture and cloud functions for implementing heavy data processing (GCP/AWS)
- Storage, caching & search: Hands‑on with Redis (caching), Elasticsearch (indexing), and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) to build scalable, low‑latency pipelines
- Any background in AI research, LLM evaluation, or human‑in‑the‑loop systems
- Experience getting your ideas into production (founder experience preferred)

Tags: Engineering