Hey everyone!
Happy Saturday and thanks for reading :)
Apparently recruiters did not take the weekend off. Cisco, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Gemini, ByteDance, and a remote full-stack role at Epic all showed up overnight.
There is also a software internship at a Pokemon card marketplace, which is not a sentence I expected to write today.
Let's get into it!
TODAY'S DROP
5 new grad / early career
5 internships
Best companies: Cisco, NVIDIA, Epic, Salesforce, Gemini
APPLY FIRST
Level: New grad / early career
Location: San Jose, CA / Remote listed
Pay: $104,700-$153,000/yr
Why first: Recent grads can apply with no previous experience, and Cisco is also open to people coming from bootcamps, apprenticeships, or certificate programs. The work is mostly C, embedded Linux, and networking.
Level: Internship
Location: St. Louis, MO / On site
Pay: $20-$71/hr
Why first: Most of the work is Python and Linux: running GPU benchmarks, testing ML workloads, and working with containers or CUDA. One catch: the internship lasts 8-12 months, so make sure that works with school.
Level: New grad / junior
Location: Remote, US
Pay: $120,000-$150,000/yr
Why first: Not Epic Games. This is the reading app used by kids and schools. They are hiring a remote full-stack engineer and are open to recent grads or bootcamp candidates with a good portfolio.
NEW GRAD / EARLY CAREER
Scout AI - Junior Firmware Engineer - Scout AI is a small defense robotics company in Sunnyvale. You would be working close to the hardware with C/C++, microcontrollers, and sensors. The role pays $145K-$220K, though the defense focus will not be for everyone.
Salesforce - DevOps Engineering AMTS - Salesforce is hiring an early-career DevOps engineer to work with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, and CI/CD. Coursework, personal projects, and internships all count here. Pay is $111K-$122K.
Best Buy - Associate Engineer, Compute Platforms - This is on Best Buy's internal compute team, working with Linux and automation. You can qualify with an associate degree or bootcamp, and school projects count toward the experience requirement. Pay is $71,850-$128,300.
INTERNSHIPS
ByteDance - Backend Development Engineer Intern, Infrastructure Platform Delivery, Fall 2026 - ByteDance is TikTok's parent company. This team works on the backend systems used to manage data centers, servers, and infrastructure. It is a 12-week internship in San Jose for final-year BS/MS students and pays $45/hr.
Gemini - Software Engineering Intern, Fall 2026 - Gemini is a crypto exchange, and interns can land on either frontend or backend. The program runs 16 weeks, is hybrid in NYC, and pays $50/hr. They are pretty direct about wanting people who are genuinely interested in crypto.
ASM - Software Engineering Intern, Spring 2027 - ASM makes the equipment used to manufacture semiconductors. Interns work on automation and validation tools in Phoenix for 12 weeks. A nice change if you want to learn how software fits into chip manufacturing.
Double Holo - Software Engineering Intern, Fall 2026 - Yes, it is a Pokemon card marketplace. They want someone who knows JavaScript or TypeScript, is willing to learn Ruby, and has finished at least one real project. It is a small team, so you would probably get to touch a lot.
Best of luck!
See you shortly,
--
David
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