# Software Engineering Intern at Unbound

- Company: Unbound (YC S24)
- What the company does: Use AI tools without fear of data leakage. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://getunbound.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Internship
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-04-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/unbound/jobs/hn66xKN-software-engineering-intern
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/unbound-software-engineering-intern/

## About the role

Ship real features. You'll own features from design through deployment. Your code runs in production and gets used by engineering teams at real companies. Work across the stack. Our product spans agent discovery, an LLM gateway, and a runtime policy engine. You'll touch Python, Next.js, Kubernetes, and cloud infra. If you haven't used something on this list, you'll learn it here.

## What they're looking for

- You can ship. You've built and deployed something: a side project, a class project, a startup, open source. The bar isn't perfection, it's follow-through
- You're comfortable with ambiguity. We'll give you a problem, not a spec. You figure out the approach, ask good questions, and iterate
- You code with AI tools and stay in control. We expect you to use Copilot, Claude, whatever works. But you understand what the code does and can debug it when it breaks
- You're curious about security, devtools, or infrastructure. Deep experience not required, but genuine interest matters. If you've thought about what happens when an AI agent has root access to a codebase, we should talk
- You want to understand how the whole system works, not just your piece of it

Tags: Engineering