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Strong interns may be considered for full-time opportunities.\n\nYou might be a fit if you Are obsessive about user experience.\n\nMeasure thrice, cut once.\n\nSweat the small details.\n\nBelieve great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.\n\nLive at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.\n\nHave strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.\n\nThink the internet should be faster.\n\nHave shipped unusually polished work for your stage.\n\nUnderstand why a spring beats a tween.\n\nCare about optimal bundling strategies.\n\nView software engineering as moving typed data around.\n\nBelieve actions speak louder than words.\n\nAre high agency and fiercely independent.\n\nSay how things ought to be built, then build them.\n\nLearn quickly and actively seek difficult feedback.\n\nCan explain the hardest part of your work in detail.\n\nAre a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.\n\nGo above and beyond in everything you do.\n\nWhat you’ll do Design and build interfaces for AI-agent infrastructure.\n\nWork across interaction design, visual design, and frontend engineering.\n\nTurn ambiguous product ideas into thoughtful, polished experiences.\n\nBuild responsive, accessible, and high-performance interfaces.\n\nPrototype new interactions using modern browser and rendering technologies.\n\nContribute production-quality work rather than disposable intern projects.\n\nWork closely with Dedalus engineers and receive direct, rigorous feedback.\n\nOwn a meaningful project from initial thinking through implementation and refinement.\n\nWhat we look for We care much more about what you have built than your school, credentials, or years of experience.\nStrong ability with React and TypeScript.\n\nExperience with frameworks such as Next.js, Vite, or Remix.\n\nFluency with AI coding tools.\n\nStrong instincts for responsive design and motion.\n\nThoughtful use of styling systems such as Tailwind CSS.\n\nGood judgment around RSC, streaming, loading states, and perceived performance.\n\nEvidence that you care about accessibility and Core Web Vitals.\n\nModern CSS you are a little smug about.\n\nA strong personal website demonstrating your taste and craft.\n\nA public GitHub showing how you think and build.\n\nClear evidence of personal ownership over the work you present.\n\nThe ability to explain your decisions, tradeoffs, failed approaches, and hardest technical problems.\n\nNice to have Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.\n\nFamiliarity with high-performance tooling such as Vite+, Oxc, or related projects.\n\nExperience with Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.\n\nMeaningful open-source contributions.\n\nTools or techniques we have not heard of yet.\n\nExperience writing APIs.\n\nComfort with Supabase or a similar database.\n\nStrong knowledge of types.\n\nInterest in category theory.\n\nA self-directed project that goes significantly beyond a class assignment.\n\nEvidence of unusually rapid learning or achievement for your stage.\n\nTaste You know what good looks like—and your work demonstrates it.\nA beautiful portfolio is not enough on its own. 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