Software Engineering Intern (Summer 2026)

Grammarly

Grammarly

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 47-47 / hour
Posted on Sep 17, 2025

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in San Francisco, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 days per week.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 7 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Software Engineering Interns to join our Engineering team for three months in summer 2026. Interns in our Engineering organization will work on various projects spanning front-end, back-end, full-stack, and mobile engineering. In this role, the intern will help Grammarly tackle some of our most interesting technical challenges and gain real-world experience shipping features to millions of users.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As a Software Engineering Intern, you will help tackle some of Grammarly’s biggest Engineering challenges. In this role, you will:

  • Work on an end-to-end Engineering challenge that directly relates to your team’s high-level goals.
  • Ship code within your first few weeks!
  • Iterate quickly in a fast-paced environment and leverage your unique perspective to provide valuable feedback on product direction.
  • Partner with a mentor to scope, design, and execute on a fully formed project over the duration of your internship.
  • Collaborate with a strong team of professionals from whom you can learn on a daily basis, especially with a mentor.
  • Get your hands on a variety of APIs, frameworks, and programming languages.
  • Learn from all the challenges that come from shipping a product to tens of millions of daily active users.

Qualifications

  • Can collaborate in person in our San Fransico hub at least two days per week.
  • Is available for the entire duration of a twelve-week program.
  • Is currently enrolled in a full-time, degree-seeking program and in the process of obtaining a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
  • Has strong computer science fundamentals: CS fundamentals can come from being self-taught, previous internships, what you’ve learned at school, passion projects, and more. However you got there, it’s great for us!
  • Has proficiency in at least one programming language (Grammarly’s Engineering tech stack includes Java, JavaScript, C#, Python or Go but feel free to apply if your specialty is different!).
  • Demonstrates strong communication skills, especially as it relates to technical collaboration.
  • Is excited to learn!
  • Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
  • Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation

The expected pay for this position is $47.00 USD/hour and may be modified in the future.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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