Summer 2027 Internship - Software Engineering

About this role

<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">About the company</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":320,"335559739":120}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><u>General Matter enriches uranium.</u></p> <p>We are designing, building, and operating the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services, here in the US. &nbsp;</p> <p>In the process, we are restoring America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel to power AI, advanced manufacturing and critical industries our country relies on to remain competitive.&nbsp;</p> <p>Fuel drives the cost of advanced reactor electricity production, and enrichment drives the cost of the fuel that advanced reactors consume. &nbsp;Reliable, low-cost enrichment is the catalyst for the nuclear Renaissance now under way.</p> <p>Our mission is to make nuclear not only the cleanest and safest source of baseload power, but also the most affordable. &nbsp;We believe abundant nuclear energy will lead to a post-scarcity society.&nbsp;</p> <p>We were incubated inside Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by over a dozen of the world's top venture capital firms. &nbsp;</p> <p>Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production. &nbsp;</p> <p>We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency.&nbsp;</p> <p>Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About This Role</strong></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">As a General Matter Software Engineering Intern, you will help develop performant, safe, and high-quality software. Your work will support code where reliability, performance, and safety are of utmost importance. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including electrical engineers, software engineers, chemical engineers, manufacturing engineers, nuclear engineers, materials scientists, and physicists. If you seek high-impact work and are excited by fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style projects, we encourage you to reach out to join our team.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">We're hiring interns across three focus areas:</p> <ul> <li class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Backend interns will help build high-performance services and APIs that coordinate control systems, manage state across distributed hardware, and expose interfaces for monitoring and operations.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Distributed systems interns will support the development of fault-tolerant coordination systems, real-time data pipelines processing high-throughput sensor telemetry, and the infrastructure that keeps critical systems running reliably at scale.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Tooling interns will help build the developer platforms, CI/CD systems, observability tools, and deployment infrastructure that let our team iterate rapidly and safely in a production environment where mistakes have physical consequences.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Assist in designing and implementing high-performance software systems in C++ and Python, with a focus on reliability and maintainability.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Support the architecture of solutions, contributing to decisions around system design, performance trade-offs, and technology selection.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Participate in technical design reviews and code reviews, learning and helping uphold engineering best practices across the team.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Help build and maintain automated testing and CI/CD pipelines to support software quality at scale.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Work closely with senior engineers, contributing to progress on complex, ambiguous technical problems.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Basic Qualifications</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Current undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proficiency in C++ and/or Python.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong CS fundamentals, such as algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and system design.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Collaborative team member who thrives in fast-paced, multidisciplinary environments and is eager to learn.</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Preferred Skills and Experience</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3 print:block print:space-y-1"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Exposure to distributed systems, observability tooling, or infrastructure