Software Engineer Intern

About Clockwork Systems

Software Driven Fabrics to increase GPU cluster utilization

Clockwork Systems was founded by Stanford researchers and veteran systems engineers who share a vision for redefining the foundations of distributed computing. As AI workloads grow increasingly complex traditional infrastructure struggles to meet the demands of performance reliability and precise coordination. Clockwork is pioneering a software-driven approach to AI fabrics by delivering cross-stack observability to catch and quickly resolve problems workload fault tolerance to keep jobs running through failures and performance acceleration that dynamically routes and paces traffic to avoid congestion.

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Clockwork Systems is building next-generation high-performance applications that power distributed systems at scale. We are looking for Full-Stack Software Engineer Interns who want hands-on experience designing and building both backend and frontend systems in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

If you love coding across the stack solving challenging problems and delivering real impact this role is for you.

What Youll Do

• Design implement and deploy scalable backend services
• Build responsive user-friendly frontend applications
• Work across the full stack integrating frontend interfaces with backend systems
• Collaborate on API design database modeling and system architecture
• Debug and optimize applications for performance reliability and scalability
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team-wide engineering best practices

What You Bring

• Currently pursuing a Bachelors Masters or PhD in Computer Science EE or related field
• Strong programming skills in Python Java C Go or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with frontend frameworks (React Angular Vue) and backend frameworks (Django Spring)
• Solid understanding of databases REST APIs and software design principles
• Knowledge of data structures algorithms and full-stack development concepts
• Strong problem-solving debugging and communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure)
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
• Exposure to low-latency or high-performance systems
• Previous full-stack project experience (personal academic or professional)

Why Clockwork

• Work on challenging engineering problems
• Learn from a small team of senior engineers
• Build real-world applications that impact distributed systems at scale
• California sunshine and the heart of Silicon Valley tech culture
• Catered lunches and a collaborative inclusive environment

Clockwork Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building world-class teams by welcoming bright passionate individuals from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ancestry religion age sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin disability or protected veteran status. We believe diversity drives innovation and we grow stronger together.