Software Engineering Intern

Summary

Unbound is a startup focused on building governance and security solutions for AI coding agents. As a Software Engineering Intern, you will own features from design to deployment, work across the tech stack, and gain insights into the business and product development directly from the founders.

Responsibilities

• 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, Ruby on Rails, Next.js, Kubernetes, and cloud infra. If you haven't used something on this list, you'll learn it here
• Work with founders directly. You'll have full context on what we're building and why. You'll sit in on customer calls, see the roadmap, and understand the business, not just your tickets
• Pick up what matters. No backlog grooming ceremonies. You'll see gaps, flag them, and fill them
• Build in AI security. You'll work hands-on with how AI agents operate under the hood (hooks, MCP servers, tool-use lifecycles) and build the guardrails around them
• In your first two weeks, you'll ship a feature to production. Past projects have included agent integrations, policy engine rules, and dashboard features. Your project depends on what's highest priority when you start, but it will be real and it will ship. By day 30, you'll have full context on the product, customers, and codebase, and you'll be picking up work on your own

Skills

• You've built and deployed something: a side project, a class project, a startup, open source
• 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
• You want to understand how the whole system works, not just your piece of it
• Experience with Python, TypeScript/Next.js, or Ruby on Rails
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, K8s)
• Experience building in the AI/LLM stack
• You've been a founder or want to be one

Qualifications

Must Haves

• You've built and deployed something: a side project, a class project, a startup, open source
• 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
• You want to understand how the whole system works, not just your piece of it

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Python, TypeScript/Next.js, or Ruby on Rails
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, K8s)
• Experience building in the AI/LLM stack
• You've been a founder or want to be one