Quick Summary
About Us
Chess.com is one of the world's largest gaming sites and the premier platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess. Our team comprises over 600 fully remote professionals across more than 60 countries, all dedicated to serving the global chess community. We strive to support over 250 million chess players worldwide with the best possible products, content, and tools.
We are a technology company, a gaming company, and a content company, driven by passion and commitment to the game. We value our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, and non-corporate culture.
About You
Above all, you possess a deep love for chess and a desire to share it globally. You naturally embody a mix of the following qualities and are eager to develop them as foundational elements of your career:
- Multidisciplinary: Easily switch between relevant subject matters.
- Resilient: Demonstrate a high tolerance for ambiguity during initial project discovery phases.
- Ability to Simplify: Absorb project complexity and distill it into simplified solutions.
- Agile: Maximize output and productivity while future-proofing for growth.
- Holistic Understanding: Comprehend how various parts contribute to a project's whole, how distinct parts combine to achieve high-level goals, and how the project fits within the broader company vision.
- Unorthodox Thinker: Discover novel solutions to inherent technological limitations.
- Logical and Intuitive: Adhere to logical thought processes while leveraging intuition and gut feelings, guiding and adapting from AI and Agents.
What You'll Do as an Intern
We offer internship opportunities in two key engineering focus areas: Product Engineering or AI/ML Engineering. In either area, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to design and build optimal chess experiences, applying relevant software or data engineering principles.
What You'll Do as a Product Engineer Intern
- Build features and optimize systems, scaling for a global top 100 website.
- Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions.
- Contribute to the team knowledge base.
What You'll Do as an AI/ML Intern
- Optimize data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines.
- Develop, train, and deploy ML models, integrating them into Chess.com products.
- Build AI applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).
Preferred Skills for All Internship Opportunities
- Active chess player.
- Strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative team player.
- Currently enrolled as a degree-seeking student at a college or university, or equivalent bootcamp.
Preferred Skills for Product Engineer Intern
Training, relevant coursework, or experience with:
- Client-side programming languages (HTML, CSS, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin).
- Backend programming languages (Golang, Java, PHP preferred).
- Web application frameworks.
- Relational databases (MySQL preferred).
Preferred Skills for AI/ML Engineer Intern
Strong mathematical foundation and understanding of traditional ML algorithms. Training, relevant coursework, or experience with:
- Python or another programming language (TypeScript, Go, Java preferred).
- Machine Learning libraries and frameworks such as scikit-learn or PyTorch.
- LLMs, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), context engineering, evaluations, and agentic patterns.
- SQL (BigQuery, MySQL, Postgres, etc.).
About the Opportunity
This is a full-time, 100% remote position, allowing you to work from anywhere. This role is open to applicants eligible to work in the USA or Canada.
Learn more about us here:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-together
https://www.chess.com/about