talentpluto
Forward Deployed Engineering Intern
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 13 days ago · Found 2h ago
First listed 13 days ago and still open.
Salary
Not stated
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Entry
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "United States, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in United States
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Location: Remote (United States)
Work Model: Remote
Industry: AI recruiting and talent marketplace (B2B SaaS)
Compensation: $20–$35 per hour
About the Company
TalentPluto is a Y Combinator-backed startup building the hiring stack for high-growth companies. We run two connected products: a talent network that places engineering, go-to-market, and operations people into fast-moving startups, and an AI recruiting tool that lets a hiring team run candidate search, tiered enrichment, rubric-based scoring, and outbound campaigns directly from their assistant. We work with dozens of venture-backed startups across AI, developer tools, fintech, and healthcare. The team is small and founder-led, and interns work on live problems rather than practice ones.
The Opportunity
This is a forward deployed engineering internship: engineering pointed directly at real workflow problems rather than at a backlog. You will sit close to the people who actually use our product, including customers and our own internal operators, find where the work breaks down, and build the scripts, integrations, and internal tools that fix it. A good week here might mean debugging why an enrichment pipeline is returning the wrong person, wiring an integration between two systems that were never meant to talk, and then explaining to a non-technical operator what changed and why.
The role suits someone who likes the practical half of engineering: shipping something small that removes a real bottleneck today, rather than a perfect abstraction that lands next quarter. You will need to be comfortable with ambiguity, because the problem is often not defined before you go looking at it.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain internal tools, scripts, and automations that solve real operational bottlenecks.
Work with APIs, data pipelines, and integrations between systems, including debugging them when they misbehave.
Sit with users, customers, and internal operators to find where workflows actually break, then fix the underlying cause.
Investigate data quality problems and trace them back to their source.
Explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical teammates.
Requirements
Strong coding fundamentals in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a similar language.
Comfort working with APIs, data, scripts, and technical debugging.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-engineers.
Genuine interest in customer-facing or operations-facing engineering work.
Resourceful and practical, comfortable solving ambiguous problems without a fully specified brief.
Self-directed and comfortable working in a remote startup environment.
Requirements
- ·Strong coding fundamentals in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a similar language.
- ·Comfort working with APIs, data, scripts, and technical debugging.
- ·Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-engineers.
- ·Genuine interest in customer-facing or operations-facing engineering work.
- ·Resourceful and practical, comfortable solving ambiguous problems without a fully specified brief.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at talentpluto, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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