Engineering Intern
Checkr
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
About the roles
Checkr is looking for Summer 2026 Engineering Interns to join us for 10 weeks and work on high-value engineering projects that will deliver real-world impact to our customers, candidates, and engineering organization. Inevitably, issues arise within Checkr and external systems, prolonging the background check process which delays candidate's access to employment, housing, and financial opportunities. When you join our team, you will learn how to leverage AI as a productivity enhancer and how to deliver AI-integrated solutions to improve issue visibility, increase system resiliency, and create powerful tools that enable non-Engineering stakeholders to unblock candidates.
Checkr’s internship program is an amazing opportunity for anyone who is pursuing a career in software development and wishes to learn from a diverse cultural perspective. We are looking for candidates who have a strong understanding of engineering principles and who are interested in learning about generative AI and system scalability. Our interns will embody Checkr’s core values of grit, ownership, humility, transparency, and connection as you push to deliver value over the summer.
We’re hiring across 5 engineering teams:
- Software Engineering: gain experience in enhancing systems to streamline operations, improve resilience, and develop tools that empower stakeholders. Learn about Ruby, React, automation, and scalability.
- Product Foundations: gain experience building platform capabilities in high-throughput microservices that will be used throughout the Checkr ecosystem. Learn about microservices architecture, API design, database optimization, service scalability, and building reusable infrastructure components that power multiple teams and services.
- Platform Engineering: gain experience in finding ways to increase automation in incident response and cloud infrastructure. Learn about AWS, containers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, incident response, observability, and AI tools.
- Data Engineering: gain experience working on production-grade data pipelines and make a meaningful impact on how we ship analytics code at Checkr. Learn how top startups build and innovate upon a modern data tech stack of Airflow, dbt data modeling, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- AI/ML Engineering: gain experience working on ML, AI, observability, fine-tuning, and RAG, while defining success metrics. Learn about how top startups build scalable ML/AI models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large Language Models (LLMs), and dataset splitting strategies.
What we value in an intern:
- Familiarity with Ruby, Python, and/or SQL
- Enthusiasm and interest in AI
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and pride in your work
- Self-awareness and a desire to better yourself
- Curiosity about how and why things work
- Recently completed or are graduating in Spring 2025 with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or a related field
Interns are expected to work from the Denver office 4 days a week.
We are not able to provide sponsorship for internship roles.
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Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.
At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, Nashville, TN, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.
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