# **tl;dr**
This is an unpaid part time software engineering internship where you use Venu yourself to identify pain points being the user and then use Codex and Claude Code to build features that solve your own pain point. Are you still interested? If so, please follow the instructions in the interview process section below to join the team.
### **About Us**
Join our fast growing, remote, Harvard and Y Combinator backed AI startup and revolutionize how the industry does community building, sales, and event production with Venu!
Learn directly from our founders how to build a product customers love and come to you to pay for, build AI to automate away hundreds of hours of manual labor, work with a cross-functional team to achieve a common goal, build a reliable product with testing and quality assurance, build customer empathy to solve customer pain points, design easy to use experiences that adapt to customer workflow, build a product that achieves product-market-fit, and learn founder skills from the Venu CEO Boot Camp to run your own startup in the future.
Venu is founded by Jeremy Lam, a 10-year CEO, backed by Harvard and YC, helping startup founders meet qualified sales leads in person by automating event production with Venu. Jeremy previously developed a metaverse events platform called Venu, hosted 1000-person conferences with Microsoft, Samsung, Stanford, CNN, and The US White House, founded a VR game development studio, founded a robotics education startup, shipped the Microsoft HoloLens and Xbox One at Microsoft, and graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering.
### **Responsibilities**
• Be the customer, use Venu yourself, develop customer empathy, and improve Venu to solve your #1 pain point as the customer.
• Deliver your first feature in 1 week and push your feature to customers in 2 weeks.
• Use, test, code review, peer code review, document, identify bugs, and identify pain points.
• Use Python, React, Django, Microsoft Azure AI/ML, databases, docker compose, and devops automation.
• Be a passionate, proactive team player, a good communicator, bring a positive energy to the team, and help team members to enable others to be successful, happy, and fulfilled on the team
• Anyone can take this position as long as you show up every day, do the work, and you're passionate about solving these problems, helping the team, and gaining experience.
### **Compensation**
• This is an unpaid part time position.
• Maximum time commitment is 5 hours a week.
Visa sponsorship is offered for this role.
