Summer Intern, Product Engineering

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About the People Inc. Summer Internship Program:

The People Inc. Summer Internship Program is a 9 week full time paid program that runs from June 9th - August 8th based out of our New York office. The intern program consists of hands-on learning opportunities to create work that has an impact on the business along with workshops in preparing you for post-college life (resume / interviewing) plus fun events throughout the summer!

People Inc. is committed to diversity equity and inclusion and representing the communities that we serve. We strongly encourage BIPOC and LGBTQIA students to apply.

Deadline to Apply: Monday January 26 2026

Eligibility Requirements:

• Internships are available to current Sophomores Juniors and Seniors at an accredited college or university.

• You must be available to work full time for the entire 9 weeks of the program in the NY office 3 days a week

• You must have access to your own housing and transportation to/from the NY office

About the Team:

The Healthy Domains team ensures that People Inc.s content ecosystem remains high-quality discoverable and aligned with modern search standards. We focus on technical SEO and platform-level optimizations that improve how our content is understood indexed and ranked by search engines. By strengthening site architecture optimizing domain performance and implementing SEO best practices at scale we help maximize visibility and deliver trustworthy information to users.

In todays AI-driven search landscapewhere ranking signals content evaluation and crawl behavior evolve rapidlyour work is more critical than ever. Maintaining technical excellence and search health ensures that People Inc.s content continues to reach audiences reliably remain competitive and uphold our reputation for quality.

About the Role:

As an intern on the Healthy Domains team you will work on the technical systems that shape search performance and domain health contributing improvements to structured data metadata sitemaps crawl optimization and other SEO components. You will take on well-scoped engineering tasks lead a focused project such as enhancing domain-health tooling or building SEO automations and collaborate with engineers SEO specialists and editorial teams to validate changes and support cross-functional search strategies.

Internship Responsibilities will Include:

• Implement improvements to technical SEO components including structured data meta configuration sitemaps and crawl optimization.

• Address well-scoped engineering tasks related to domain health metrics link integrity and site performance.

• Lead a scoped internship project such as enhancing a domain-health dashboard building an SEO automation tool or improving search-facing platform components.

• Collaborate with SEO specialists editorial partners and engineering teams to validate changes and contribute to cross-functional search strategies.
  

About You:

Candidates for this role should have:

• Foundational knowledge in web engineering particularly HTML CSS JavaScript and basic web architecture concepts.

• Interest or introductory exposure to technical SEO topics such as structured data rendering behavior or performance optimization (not required but a plus).

• Excellent communication time management and organizational skills.

• Open to new challenges and excited to grow within a fast-paced expanding and constantly evolving organization

• Creative and driven self-starter that can take direction and run with it asking questions up front to ensure youre able to complete the task successfully

• Motivated problem solver who will proactively troubleshoot and create solution

• Experience with Google & Microsoft Suites

• Some experience with digital media is a plus but not required

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing .

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program please click here: Range

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Incs total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives.In additionPeople Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits including medical dental vision prescription drug coverage unlimited paid time off (PTO) adoption or surrogate assistance donation matching tuition reimbursement basic life insurance basic accidental death & dismemberment supplemental life insurance supplemental accident insurance commuter benefits short term and long term disability health savings and flexible spending accounts family care benefits a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program 10-12 paid holidays annually and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents) all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance accident critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage life and disability insurance.