Engineering Intern

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Engineering intern building scrapers and ingestion pipelines for GovSignals’ AI-powered government contracting data platform. Validating source data and improving extraction reliability.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain data scrapers and ingestion pipelines for government data sources across the United States
  • Use internal tooling and AI agents to research sources, develop extraction approaches, and accelerate implementation
  • Validate data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability before platform ingestion
  • Monitor existing sources, investigate failures or source changes, and improve scraper resilience
  • Document source behavior, extraction logic, and data-quality checks
  • Support other technical and operational work across the company as needed

Requirements:

  • Third- and fourth-year undergraduate students and recent graduates
  • Experience with TypeScript
  • Python is valuable for data collection and analysis
  • Familiarity with web scraping or browser automation using BeautifulSoup, Playwright, or Selenium
  • Comfortable working with HTML, APIs, structured and unstructured data, JSON, and CSV
  • Strong attention to detail and ownership of data quality
  • Familiarity with Git, debugging, and clear technical documentation
  • Interest in using AI agents while carefully validating their output
  • Curiosity about public-sector data and persistence with inconsistent websites and source formats
  • U.S. citizenship or other U.S. person status required due to U.S. export-control requirements

Benefits:

  • Paid 6-week internship
  • Exposure to how a high-velocity startup builds trustworthy data products
  • Opportunity to learn reliable processes, downstream-effect anticipation, and data-quality tradeoffs