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title: 'Engineering Intern - Budapest (Jun 1 – Aug 31, 2027) at Hiya'
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# Engineering Intern - Budapest (Jun 1 – Aug 31, 2027) at Hiya

- **Company:** Hiya
- **Location:** Budapest, Hungary
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiya/4c0572d8-3cc1-4c0a-9515-ec74c679f989

## Job description

## About Hiya

At Hiya, we’re making business calls more trusted, useful, and effective. Voice remains one of the most important ways businesses communicate with their customers, but the value of a call depends on trust. When customers do not recognize who is calling or why, important conversations are missed, customer relationships suffer, and business outcomes are harder to achieve. Hiya helps businesses create trusted calling experiences that benefit both sides of the conversation: enterprises can reach customers with confidence, and customers can answer with confidence. Our products support branded business calling, trusted caller identity, call performance insights, customer engagement, and voice security capabilities that help businesses strengthen relationships and improve outcomes. This role sits in a core business area for Hiya and is focused on helping SMB and enterprise customers succeed.

## About the Role

The engineering intern position is for an individual contributor who is responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining significant systems that serve hundreds of millions of requests per month. Hiya provides high-availability, latency-sensitive capabilities to telecoms, mobile apps, and other partners. In addition, you'll work with engineering teams across Hiya, some in Seattle and some in Europe, to define and deliver shared components and services. From day one, you will be paired with a dedicated mentor who provides structured guidance, technical feedback, and ongoing career mentorship.

## What You'll Do

Design, code, and operate high-performance services and data processing pipelines on a modern technology stack, supported by a structured technical crash course during your first two weeks covering our core tools, architecture, and repositories. Work at a supportive and fast-growing startup with a fantastic team, where you can collaborate with and learn from other great team members. Make an impact in the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers. Be supported in developing your skills and accelerating your career.

## What We Are Looking For

- Excitement to work on innovative technology advancements
- A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement
- Working knowledge of building services that adhere to operational SLAs
- A preference for velocity over perfection
- A commitment to respectful and impactful collaboration
- Self-motivated and excited to learn about new technologies

## What You Can Expect From Us

- Dedicated technical mentorship with structured, regular feedback check-ins
- Clear project scope and goals provided right at the start of your internship
- Comprehensive onboarding to get you up to speed on Hiya's tooling, codebases, and systems quickly
- A supportive, collaborative environment built on psychological safety and genuine impact

## How We Work

Hiya is not a passive environment. We expect people to take ownership, form opinions, and engage directly with hard problems. We work with a high degree of transparency and autonomy. Context is shared openly, and decisions are discussed, challenged, and then made. Once a call is made, we commit and move forward. You'll be expected to work through ambiguity, weigh tradeoffs, and take responsibility for results, while keeping a high bar for quality and customer trust. Every team member at Hiya is expected to live our core values:

- Serve, our customers and partners by holding a high bar for trust and quality
- Own, share in success and open up to failures
- Lead, listen, show up with a point of view but commit entirely once a decision has been made
- Improve, even if it means changing course or contradicting ourselves
- Do, rather than observe

Come Work With Us! We're building a team with diverse perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate candidates through a business lens and believe that diversity and unique viewpoints make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career. We've been recognized by Built In, GeekWire, Comparably, G2, Forbes, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for our culture, innovation, leadership, compensation, and more. At Hiya, we're a people-centric company focused on helping each employee grow both personally and professionally. We create a culture of support and empowerment that challenges the status quo, resulting in an energized team that's passionate about their work. You'll love working here if you're looking for an innovative challenge that's disrupting an industry. Come join us!

Hiya is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Hiya

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hiya provides an AI-powered voice platform that protects consumers from spam and fraud calls, helps businesses connect with customers through branded calling, and secures telecom networks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A and subsequent rounds; latest funding $4.7M in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States (additional offices in London, UK and Budapest, Hungary)
- **Founded**: 2016 (spun out of Whitepages; product development began in 2015)
- **Founders**: Alex Algard

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Voice security, telecommunications, AI voice intelligence, anti-fraud
- **Target customers**: B2B (carriers, enterprises) and B2C (mobile app users)
- **Mission/purpose**: “Modernizing voice with intelligence for security and productivity” – protecting against spam and fraud, connecting businesses with customers, and securing global telecommunications.

## Products & Services
- **Hiya AI Phone (Consumer App)**: AI assistant that screens calls, detects spam and fraud, transcribes and summarizes calls, and detects synthetic (deepfake) voices.
- **Hiya Protect (Carrier/Network)**: Network-based spam and fraud blocking solution used by telecom carriers; includes Adaptive AI self-learning fraud detection.
- **Hiya Connect (Enterprise SaaS)**: Branded Call platform that displays business name, logo and call reason to increase answer rates; also includes Caller Reputation and Number Registration.
- **Deepfake Voice Detection**: Acquired from Loccus.ai in 2024; integrated into Hiya’s platform for real-time synthetic voice detection.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $22.7M (including $18M Series A led by Balderton Capital in 2017, plus subsequent rounds)
- **Recent Annual Revenue**: $120M (per LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors & Partners**: Balderton Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners, 2xN, Lattice CEO Sarah Franklin (board); carrier partners include AT&T, Telenor Norway, Rogers Canada, BT/EE, O2, Liberty Latin America.
- **Growth Signals**: 500M+ active users; 150+ employees (+20% YoY); expanded into UK, Canada, Latin America; deepfake detection acquisition; named a 2025 “Happiest Employees” company and multiple “Best Places to Work” awards in Seattle.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Carrier-level integration**: Hiya’s technology is embedded directly in major telecom networks (e.g., AT&T, Rogers, BT), giving it scale and trust that standalone apps cannot match.
- **Adaptive AI**: Self-learning fraud detection model that continuously adapts to new scam tactics.
- **Deepfake voice detection**: Unique capability acquired from Loccus.ai, providing real-time synthetic voice analysis.
- **Branded Call reputation**: Proprietary Caller Reputation score that helps businesses avoid being flagged as spam.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding global carrier partnerships (40+ countries covered) to extend spam protection and branded calling capabilities.
- Deepening AI capabilities in voice security, especially deepfake detection and conversational intelligence.
- Growing the Hiya AI Phone consumer product as a productivity tool with transcription and summarization features.

## Why Work Here
- **Award-winning culture**: Recognized in 2025 as a “Happiest Employees” company and “Best Leadership Team” (Midsize #39); consistently ranked among Seattle’s Best Places to Work.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Flexible work environment; employees receive a work-from-home office stipend. Flexible vacation time.
- **Benefits**: Stock options, fully covered medical/dental/vision, 401k with employer match, paid parental leave, $1,000 learning & development budget, $1,000 charitable matching, employer-paid life and disability insurance.
- **Engineering culture**: “We are doers, not observers” – fast-paced startup environment where employees own real work and stretch themselves; values include Serve, Own it, Lead, Improve, Do.

## Sources
1. [hiya.com/about](https://www.hiya.com/company/about)
2. [hiya.com/careers](https://www.hiya.com/company/careers)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiya](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiya?embed=js)
4. [hiya.com](https://www.hiya.com/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/hiyainc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiyainc)

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