About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
As a UX Engineering Pintern, you’ll work alongside current Pinployees on impactful and high-exposure projects. Throughout your internship, you’ll work within the design system team and help evolve the system to meet the needs of our users; Building reusable UI components, creating helpful automations, and developing useful tools that allow team’s at Pinterest to build faster. The design system team lives at the intersection of design and engineering and helps bridge the gap between the two disciplines across all of Pinterest.
We offer a 12-week summer internship program in San Francisco.
What you’ll do:
- Take ownership over the completion and quality of your tasks and project while incorporating guidance from your mentor, manager, and peers
- Execute scoped technical tasks end-to-end to help build the future of Pinterest
- Deliver code that is well-documented, tested, and operable
- Bridge design and engineering teams
- Communicate new ideas and opinions with candor as you grow both professionally and personally through learning and development opportunities
What we’re looking for:
- This position requires current enrollment in a school or education program in which the individual is working towards a Master's in statistics, psychology, sociology, applied sciences, computer science or related field
- Obtain Master’s in statistics, psychology, sociology, applied sciences, computer science or related field by June 2027
- Previous Software Engineering internships
- Passion for solving user-experience problems / upleveling the quality of the Pinner experience
- Proficiency in a dynamic programming language such as JavaScript, CSS, C++, HTML, Python, Java, Go–we use a variety of programming languages and tools
- Ability to continually learn from your experiences
We offer 2 internship start dates:
- May 20, 2025 - August 9, 2025
- June 17, 2025 - September 6, 2025
In-Office Requirement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role may require you to be located near an office for in-person collaboration, and therefore may need to be located a commutable distance from one of our San Francisco office.
Our Commitment to Diversity:
At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love - and that includes our employees. We’re taking on the most exciting challenges of our working lives, and we succeed with a team that represents an inclusive and diverse set of identities and backgrounds.
The salary for this position is $11,000 monthly.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It’s the biggest dataset of ideas ever assembled, with over 100 billion recipes, home hacks, style inspiration and other ideas to try. More than 250 million people around the world use Pinterest to dream about, plan and prepare for things they want to do in life.
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