Software Engineering Intern - Waterloo University at Brave Software

<p><strong>Software Development Interns - Waterloo University</strong></p> <p><strong>Remote - Fall Semester</strong></p> <h3><strong>About Brave</strong></h3> <p>Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a <em>truly</em> independent index, private AI assistant, latest privacy and security features, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. Already over 120 million people regularly use Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.</p> <p>The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!</p> <p>Brave is hiring 2 Software Engineer interns this fall from Waterloo University to assist adding AI, security and privacy features to our products. </p> <p><strong>Software Developer Co-op - Internship Role One</strong></p> <p>Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of data-intensive systems and AI-powered services. </p> <p><strong>Key responsibilities include:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading structured and unstructured data across internal systems</li> <li>Develop backend services and tooling in Python and TypeScript to support data processing workflows and API integrations</li> <li>Integrate and optimize LLM inference pipelines, including prompt engineering, model serving, and evaluation of large language model outputs</li> <li>Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes, including writing manifests, configuring autoscaling, and troubleshooting cluster issues</li> <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve data quality, pipeline reliability, and system observability</li> </ul> <p><strong>Software Developer (Privacy) Co-op - Internship Role 2</strong></p> <p>Contribute to the design, development, and shipping of privacy and security features in the Brave browser (based on Chromium).</p> <p><strong>Key responsibilities include:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Prototype, implement, and ship privacy-enhancing features end-to-end in C++ or Rust for the Brave browser</li> <li>Build browser-native privacy protections privacy-enhancing permissions and anti-fingerprinting defenses</li> <li>Navigate and contribute to an extremely large, complex codebase, applying knowledge of the Web security model and Chromium's architecture</li> <li>Work with Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript