Software Engineering Intern - AI Content Systems
About Plato+
Plato+ builds innovative, productized services powered by modern technology and guided by exceptional people. We began with premium tutoring and fully personalized education services and are now building tech supported programs that help students thrive in school and beyond.
This role supports a flagship initiative. We are working to create a truly vibrant and meaningful online class that helps students build real confidence and real skills in writing and communication, not just better grades on a worksheet. Your work will directly influence how many students gain access to that experience.
We take on very few interns at a time, so you are treated as part of the core team, not one of dozens.
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The Challenge
This internship is deliberately hard.
We are not looking for someone to check boxes. We are looking for someone who is:
- Very strong technically
- Extremely hard working
- Able to think clearly about systems, data, and human behavior
- Comfortable being judged on real world results
Your mission is simple to state and hard to achieve:
Build and improve an autonomous content and email engine that regularly fills a real class with real students.
If you are usually in the top group of problem solvers among your peers, enjoy deep, focused work, and want a problem that genuinely stretches you, this role is designed for you.
The Class You Will Power
You will support an ongoing online writing class for 8th to 10th graders focused on short stories, strong sentences, and confidence.
A typical session looks like:
- Short mini lesson on a core topic such as plot, character, openings, or sentence flow
- Quick write where students have five to seven minutes to draft a short scene and post it in the chat
- Live workshopping of a few student examples plus a deliberately flawed example from the instructor
- A focused grammar or sentence craft segment
- A brief bridge to school writing, such as how today’s story structure also helps with essays
The goal is not only better essays but students who feel, for the first time, that they can say what they mean on the page. The class is designed to be energetic, encouraging, and intellectually serious at the same time.
It is built for students who are:
- Moving from middle school to high school and want to feel ready for harder English classes
- Recovering from disrupted early schooling and need both practice and encouragement
- Creative and curious about fiction or even publishing
Parents enroll because they want higher confidence, stronger writing grades, and lasting communication skills. Your work is how those parents discover this experience, understand what actually happens in class, and decide to sign up.
Role Overview
You will build a self running marketing system around this class. You can use no code tools for pages and forms. The core of your work is the content and email engine behind those pages.
You will:
- Create short, compelling video content and scripts using artificial intelligence that attract parents of 8th to 10th graders
- Design and operate an artificial intelligence assisted email nurture pipeline that converts interested parents into paid sign ups
- Add smart layers around this engine, including lead magnets, segmentation, experiments, dashboards, and documentation so it can be reused for future classes.
What You Will Build
1. Artificial Intelligence Video Content Engine
- Turn lesson outlines, transcripts, and class recordings into short form video ideas and scripts that show what the class feels like
- Use large language models to propose hooks, captions, and post ideas
- Build a workflow that finds highlight moments from recordings and turns them into ready to publish clips for platforms such as YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels
2. Artificial Intelligence Email Nurture Pipeline
- Design sequences that move parents from “my child is struggling with writing” to “I understand this class and I am ready to enroll”
- Use large language models to draft emails from templates and real class material
- Trigger different sequences based on behavior, for example opens, clicks, quiz results, and visits to key pages
3. Lead Capture, Segmentation, and Experiments
- Build a simple quiz or lead magnet, such as a writing confidence check for parents
- Tag and score leads by key pain points such as confidence, grades, or enrichment
- Run basic A/B tests on subjects, hooks, and calls to action and fold learnings back into prompts and templates
4. Tools, Dashboards, and Reuse
- Use no code tools such as Wix, Webflow, Framer, or Carrd and connect them to your automation engine
- Create a highlight snippet workflow for class recordings and simple parent resources such as weekly prompts
- Build a small dashboard for leads, engagement, and enrollments and set up a weekly summary for the team
- Document the system with an operator guide so it can be reused for future offerings such as essay labs or college essay workshops
What You Will Learn and Gain
Top students care about learning, impact, and signal. This role is designed to give you all three.
You will learn:
- How to connect software, artificial intelligence, and growth into one working system
- How to design and improve funnels using real world metrics such as conversion rates and retention
- How to use artificial intelligence to transform messy inputs such as transcripts and recordings into structured content and experiments
- How to think like a product and growth engineer who owns outcomes, not just features
You will gain:
- Production grade experience building and operating the engine that directly drives real revenue and enrollments
- Concrete metrics and artifacts for your portfolio, not just a list of tasks
- Close collaboration with the founder and core team of Plato+ with the ability to impact key strategic and engineering decisions
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- Strong programming skills in Node.js or Python for scripts, integrations, and basic services
- Experience with application programming interfaces and webhooks or automation tools such as Zapier or Make
- Familiarity with large language models for summarization, rewriting, or content generation
- Strong written communication and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently, break down ambiguous problems, and ask clear questions
- Able to commit at least 15 hours per week consistently during the internship
You should be comfortable treating this internship as a serious, high effort project, not as a light resume line.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with at least one of:
- No code landing page and form tools such as Wix, Webflow, Framer, or Carrd
- Email or marketing tools such as Mailchimp, ConvertKit, or Klaviyo
- Analytics and funnels such as event tracking and basic metrics dashboards
- No code landing page and form tools such as Wix, Webflow, Framer, or Carrd
- Interest or experience in any of the following:
- Content creation or social media
- Short form video editing or clipping
- Writing, storytelling, or education
- Content creation or social media
- A portfolio, GitHub, or project examples that show end to end ownership
Our Team & Culture
We’re a team of people who want to create outsized value and grow fast; as a company and as individuals. We work hard, we think deeply and we challenge each other, so the best ideas win. If you want to ship real products, build a real career, and be surrounded by people who make you better, this is your place.