Position Title: AI Software Development & Product Innovation Intern — TangentOS
Company Description: The Tangent Club is an early-stage startup based in Wake Forest, North Carolina, focused on neurodivergent awareness, understanding, acceptance, and support. We’re developing practical tools, digital planners, educational resources, and technology for people with nonlinear minds — and the people who care about them.
Our mission is to turn distraction, curiosity, creativity, and chaos into connection, progress, and possibility.
We’re also developing TangentOS, a modular AI software platform designed to make artificial intelligence more personal, adaptable, and accessible. Through customizable personas, interchangeable AI models, and modular capabilities, our goal is to create a unified AI experience without requiring users to maintain multiple separate AI subscriptions.
We’re early-stage and building toward our first major product releases. Our guiding philosophy is simple: There must be a better way.
Company Website: https://thetangentclub.com
Internship Job Description:
Help build the foundations of TangentOS, an emerging commercial AI platform designed to adapt to how people think, work, and interact with technology.
You’ll work directly with the founder to explore how customizable AI personas, modular capabilities, and intuitive interfaces can create a more personal AI experience.
What you’ll do:
– Help develop and test customizable AI personas that influence how the system interacts with users.
– Assist in prototyping modular software features that can be added, customized, or removed.
– Build or improve user interface components and interactive experiences.
– Explore how AI agents, tools, and workflows can work together.
– Research existing open-source projects and identify opportunities to build upon them.
– Test features, troubleshoot problems, and document findings.
– Contribute ideas and participate in product development discussions.
Your project: Help create a working prototype demonstrating how different AI personas can interact with the same underlying tools while maintaining distinct user experiences.
You’ll gain hands-on experience in software development, AI product design, prototyping, and startup entrepreneurship.
Good fit: Students interested in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, or product design. Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, GitHub, or AI-assisted coding is helpful but not required.
Type and Timing: Part-time, Spring and Summer 2027, April 5–August 5. Approximately 180 total hours, generally 15 hours per week during active working weeks, with flexible scheduling to accommodate academic commitments and planned vacations.
Location: Primarily remote, with scheduled virtual meetings and optional in-person collaboration in Wake Forest, NC.
Type and Timing of Internship:
Part Time, during
Spring Semester;Summer
Approximate Start and End Dates:
2027-04-05T00:00:00Z to 2027-08-05T00:00:00Z
Internship Location: Wake Forest, NC (Primarily Remote)
Paid or Unpaid: Yes –
Application Instructions:
2027-02-26T00:00:00Z
Please email your résumé and a brief introduction (3–5 sentences) to info@thetangentclub.com, with the internship title and your name in the subject line.
Tell us what interests you about the opportunity, what you’re hoping to learn, and any relevant experience or projects you’ve worked on.
**Examples of previous work are preferred but not required.** These might include personal projects, school assignments, GitHub repositories, websites, writing samples, research, or creative work.
We especially encourage you to share something you’ve built, explored, experimented with, or attempted — even if it didn’t work out as planned. We’re interested in your curiosity, how you approach challenges, what you’ve learned, and what you might do differently next time.
Projects don’t need to be completed or professionally polished. Initiative, creative thinking, and a willingness to learn matter more to us than having all the answers.
Students may apply for more than one position. Please submit a separate email for each role.
Primary Contact Email: info@thetangentclub.com