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title: 'Engineering Intern at Cluely'
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# Engineering Intern at Cluely

- **Company:** Cluely
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cluely/89809243-a79a-4a8f-a394-8e8b12743108

## Job description

## About Cluely

Cluely is building AI to give you an unfair advantage in every situation. It acts as a desktop assistant that takes in screen, mic, and audio context to give you information and suggestions that existing model providers cannot, due to a lack of context. We will win for two reasons:

1. Chatbots are not the best interface for multi-modal AI
2. We can make anything viral

## About the Role

We work six days a week in-person in San Francisco, 10-12 hours a day. You are expected to live within a block of the office (housing provided). Our eng team is a mix of staff-level SWEs and tuff 19 yr olds, check it out [here](https://www.notion.so/Cluely-Team-1fd73e859d3280eebff2ca7e174078dc?source=copy_link). You might be a good fit if you are:

- One of the best engineers in the world
- Down to gamble your life into greatness

Compensation:

- Founding engineers get anywhere from $250-350k base + 0.25-0.5% equity
- We also offer free housing, free food, and free transportation.

## About Cluely

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cluely is a desktop application that provides real-time AI assistance during virtual meetings, generating notes, answers, and next steps without joining as a bot or appearing on shared screens.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025 (April 20, 2025)
- **Founders**: Chungin “Roy” Lee, Neel Shanmugam, Alex Chen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence / AI meeting assistant software
- **Target customers**: B2B professionals and individual users who attend frequent virtual meetings (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.)
- **Mission statement**: Not explicitly listed, but the product positions itself as “the #1 undetectable AI for meetings” and aims to help users “be the most prepared person on every call.”

## Products & Services
- **Cluely Desktop App**: A real-time AI meeting assistant that listens to meeting audio, transcribes with 95% accuracy, and provides instant answers, notes, and action items. It uses an overlay that is invisible to screen sharing and never joins the meeting as a participant. Supports 12+ languages. Available via subscription (e.g., $20/month per seat).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$20.3M** (Seed $5.3M + Series A $15M). Claimed annual recurring revenue of **$5.2M** (per founder screenshots, though an earlier $7M claim was later admitted as false).
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz (led Series A), Abstract Ventures (co-led Seed), Susa Ventures (co-led Seed).
- **Growth Signals**: 70,000 user signups in the first week after launch; headcount grew to ~24 employees (LinkedIn) with 1,700% YoY growth; operations in 7 countries; monthly website traffic of ~752,000 visits.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Undetectability**: The app never appears in shared screens, recordings, or meeting participant lists, making it discreet for user-facing use.
- **Speed**: Real-time transcription with a claimed response time of ~300ms, faster than many competitors.
- **Compatibility**: Works with all major meeting platforms (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, Slack) without requiring integration.
- **Privacy**: Does not join meetings as a bot; user’s own audio is processed locally or via cloud.

## Strategic Focus
- Pivoted from an initial controversial “cheat on everything” marketing campaign toward positioning as a legitimate AI meeting assistant competing with tools like Otter.ai.
- Focus on enterprise adoption and reliability, with improvements to product accuracy and latency since launch.

## Why Work Here
- Fast-growing startup (24 employees, 1,700% YoY headcount growth) with significant venture backing (a16z, etc.).
- Engineering-heavy culture with a tech stack including TypeScript, React, Swift, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenAI.
- Controversial but high-profile founding story (founders suspended from Columbia over Interview Coder tool) gives the company a “rebellious” brand.
- Roles span marketing, engineering, design, and customer experience; key executives include a CEO/Co-Founder (Roy Lee), COO (Neel Shanmugam), and CTO (Alex Chen).
- Headquarters in New York City; office presence likely (previously San Francisco but moved to NYC).

## Sources
1. [cluely.com](https://cluely.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/cluely](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cluely)
3. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/802998-10](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/802998-10)
4. [wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluely)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cluely](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cluely)

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