Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
We are hiring a Software Engineering Intern to join the Beacon HQ engineering team for the Fall 2026 co-op term. You will work directly with our senior engineers on the platforms that power how we operate the portfolio: data ingestion across 25+ portcos, internal tools used by our operating team every day, and AI-powered workflows that we are embedding into both Beacon HQ and the portfolio products themselves.
What they're looking for
- Currently enrolled in a Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related undergrad or graduate program
- Comfortable writing production-quality code in at least one of TypeScript, Python, or Go. You do not need to know all three, but you should be able to pick up a new language quickly
- Comfortable working in someone else's codebase. You can read code as well as you write it
- Curious about data systems, APIs, and the practical mechanics of LLM-driven applications. Prior exposure is a plus but not required
- Strong written communicator. Beacon runs on writing, and interns are expected to write design docs, PR descriptions, and updates that hold up to senior review
- Operator instincts. You take the time to understand the problem before reaching for a solution
More about this role
Beacon is acquiring and operating a portfolio of vertical SaaS companies. Most private equity firms scale by adding people. We are building Beacon to scale by adding software. The thesis is simple: portfolio operations, value creation, and deal sourcing are bottlenecked by human attention, and an agentic operating system can lift that ceiling by an order of magnitude.
We are building that system. It has two pieces. A sensing layer is a cross-portfolio data lake on open table formats with a feature store on top that makes the data agent-readable. An action layer runs workflows across three domains: how we run the portfolio, how we grow the portfolio, and how we acquire into it. Underneath both sits a feedback loop that captures every action and outcome with stable identifiers.
We are hiring a Software Engineering Intern to join the Beacon HQ engineering team for the Fall 2026 co-op term. You will work directly with our senior engineers on the platforms that power how we operate the portfolio: data ingestion across 25+ portcos, internal tools used by our operating team every day, and AI-powered workflows that we are embedding into both Beacon HQ and the portfolio products...
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