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Sweep

The best AI coding assistant for JetBrains

Founding Engineer/Intern

$150K - $225K*1.00% - 4.97%*San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
Will sponsor
Skills
Python, Kotlin, Machine Learning
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William Zeng
William Zeng
Founder
William Zeng
William Zeng
Founder

About the role

We're building an AI coding assistant for JetBrains IDEs.

You'll work with great builders on some of the hardest and most
user-facing problems in AI today.

Whether an internship or full-time position, you'll work from our
office in Dogpatch five days a week in-person.

About the interview

Take https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template
and build something like GitHub Copilot autocomplete for JetBrains.
Figure out how to do this quickly!

About Sweep

Sweep is the best enterprise AI coding assistant for JetBrains IDEs.
No data ever leaves your VPC.

We have large customers in production. We ship fast.

Sweep
Sweep
Founded:2023
Batch:S23
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
  
 
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