AI Developer Intern | Summer 2026
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Job Location:
Columbia, IN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Grassroots Analytics mission is to provide innovative data solutions to amplify forward-thinking voices causes and people.
Grassroots Analytics (GA) maintains a detailed database on more than 20 million active American donors including data on net worth ideological preferences political donation history non-profit donation history demographics and contact information.
Who You Are
Youre a college student or recent graduate with a Computer Science background whos excited to take on meaningful work and grow in a supportive high-trust environment. Youre looking for real responsibility and the chance to learn directly from experienced engineers who are invested in your success.
What Youll Own
This is a hands-on engineering role where youll work closely with the team contributing to code and features that matter from day one. Youll have support when you need it but also the freedom to take ownership of your work.
- End-to-End Ownership: Guide features from initial concept through deployment and user adoption. Youll see the full picture not just isolated tasks.
- Build Critical Infrastructure: Help build and maintain the data ingestion pipelines and analyst tools that power our platform. Your work will directly enable insights for clients and internal teams.
- Explore the AI Frontier: Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI tools and technologiesthink evals retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) semantic data layers and other emerging capabilities. Youll have the opportunity to research and experiment with new approaches that could shape our product direction.
- Work on Exciting AI Projects: Contribute to research and development initiatives exploring how AI can enhance our data tools and analytics capabilities. This is your chance to learn by doing at the forefront of the field.
- Solve Real Problems: When platform or data challenges arise youll help design solutions and contribute meaningfully to the approach we take.
- Learn Through Doing: Deploy new releases communicate with users and iterate based on feedback. Each cycle will help you grow as an engineer.
- Direct Mentorship: Work closely with senior engineers who genuinely want to help you develop. Ask questions pair program get feedback and build your skills in a supportive environment.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with different groups to achieve shared goals. Youll practice explaining technical concepts to various audiences and translating user needs into solutions.
- Work with Data: Design and perform analysis on our proprietary dataset to help inform product direction and understand your works impact.
What Were Looking For
We value potential and eagerness to learn over having every skill mastered. Ideal candidates have:
- Initiative: Youre excited to contribute and willing to take on challenges
- Curiosity About AI: Interested in exploring how AI/ML can solve real problems (no prior AI experience requiredjust genuine interest)
- Growth Mindset: Eager to learn open to feedback and excited by new challenges
- Strong Communication: Can explain your thinking clearly and ask thoughtful questions
- Team-First Mentality: Collaborative supportive and focused on shared success
- Technical Foundation: Some exposure to technologies like:
- Python Django Flask JavaScript Vue Node HTML CSS
- Docker Airflow SQL Postgres Google Cloud Platform Firebase
- Git CI/CD pipelines
- Statistical modeling or data analysis (helpful but not required)
Why This Role Is Different
We believe in giving interns meaningful work and treating you as a developing engineer not just someone passing through. Youll experience:
- Real autonomy over your projects with guidance when you need it
- Genuine ownership of features that users rely on
- AI exploration opportunities to research and experiment with emerging technologies
- Close mentorship from engineers who remember what its like to be starting out
- Fast learning cycles that help you grow quickly through hands-on experience
- Broad exposure across the stackfrom data pipelines to user-facing features to cutting-edge AI/ML tools
This internship is designed for those who want to actively contribute and grow working on real problems alongside a supportive team while exploring the frontier of AI-powered data tools.
This internship pays $27/hr plus a relocation stipend for those coming from outside the DMV area. Strong preference for seniors and graduates. The program will run fromJune 1st to August 7 2026. This is a full-time in-office position based in our office in Chinatown at 806 7th St NW Washington D.C. 20001.
Grassroots Analytics is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a diverse inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone is empowered to do their best work. Grassroots Analytics does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender gender expression age national origin disability marital status sexual orientation or military status.
Required Experience:
Intern
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Public Relations
- Google Docs
- Data Collection
- MailChimp
- Microsoft Word
- Dermal Fillers
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Photoshop
- Writing Skills
About Company
Grassroots Analytics is a Washington, DC tech company breaking down barriers in fundraising for forward-thinking candidates, causes, and nonprofits. Since our founding in 2017, we have evolved into a premier data and technology firm, assembling a team of the top political, nonprofit, ... View more
