Software Engineering Intern at Venu AI (W21)
Build your community with Venu AI
Remote (US)
Internship
About Venu AI

Wvrld Studios Inc. is a virtual reality studio with experience in creating VR applications for enterprise, as well as creating & publishing VR games. In addition, we have been the event organizer of VR Arcade Conference and VR LBE Summit. Combining our own event organizer experience with VR, we created Venu as the true-to-life trade show in virtual reality that can be accessed from Windows or Mac computers, as well as VR headsets.

About the role
Skills: Python, React, Microsoft Azure

tl;dr

This is a part time AI software engineering internship with many responsibilities, high impact, and initially unpaid. 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 conference production with Venu AI!

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 AI is founded by Jeremy Lam, a 10-year CEO, backed by Harvard and YC, helping founders build top of funnel sales, meet qualified leads in person, build a community, and host a 100-person conferences in 3 months fully automated with Venu AI. 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

• Build AI features and products on the Venu AI platform to automate manual tasks, solve customer pain points, and enable customers to automate hosting conferences and grow top of funnel.

• Be the customer and use Venu AI to host conferences for our customers, build customer empathy, and work on features that solve your #1 pain point as the customer.

• Quickly learn and use Python, React, Django, Microsoft Azure AI/ML, databases, and github devops automation.

• Deliver your first feature in 2 weeks and help deliver your first product with the team in 2 months.

• 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 a part time position that is initially unpaid.

• Maximum time commitment is 5 hours a week.

Technology

We develop on Unity and occasionally UnReal for all major platforms including Windows 10, Mac OSX, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Windows MR, Valve Index, iOS, and Android.

Interview Process

Interview Instructions

  1. Find any B2B SaaS startup CEO. Find their LinkedIn and company website.
  2. Using information from their LinkedIn and company website, fill out the fields within the brackets < > in the email template below. Do not change the template.
  3. Review and revise your own email. Do your fields make sense in the rest of the sentence? Do your fields accurately describe what they do, what they specialize in, what they would want to promote about their company? Do you sound familiar and say their first name and company names the same way they or their colleagues would without sounding too formal and alien?
  4. Send the email to [email protected].
  5. Please complete an onboarding call with the AI interviewer here. If the AI interviewer doesn’t work, please skip it.
  6. Schedule onboarding call with team to ask any questions you have and receive offer letter.

Email Template

Subject: < first name > Speaking On < 1-2 words summarizing expertise or industry > Panel in SF

Body:

Hey < first name >,

I found your experience in < 2-3 words summarizing what their company does >, and we’d love to invite you to speak and promote < company name > to our community of < their customer persona > on our <1-2 words summarizing their area of expertise or industry > Panel in San Francisco.

This will be a great opportunity to meet < their customer persona > in person, learn about the latest developments in < their industry >, and partner with other founders.

A little about me, I’m Jeremy, CEO of Venu AI, helping founders meet qualified sales leads in person, build a community, and host a 100 person conference in 3 months fully automated with Venu AI.

Reply yes I'm interested to speak on the panel!

Thanks,

Jeremy

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