Backed by Congruent Ventures.
About the role
Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on product, engineering, or startup experience through internships, student teams, research, or personal projects
- Enough technical fluency to read code, understand system architecture, and discuss tradeoffs with engineers
- Experience working with data, such as writing SQL or analyzing data in Python or spreadsheets
- Strong written communication, including the ability to write clear, concise specs and documents
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems and drive work forward with limited direction
More about this role
Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight.
Parallel Systems is seeking a Product Intern to help shape the software platform that our team, operators, and rail partners use to run an autonomous freight network. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to own a real product problem, not shadow one.
You will sit at the intersection of engineering, operations, and customers. You will talk to users, dig into data, define requirements, and work side by side with software engineers to scope and ship a feature on our platform.
The right person is technical enough to earn engineers' trust, curious enough to understand how rail and logistics actually work, and comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous problems.
You will own a specific product problem on our software platform, scoped to team priorities. Example areas include:
- User and customer research: interviewing...
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