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title: 'Software Engineering Intern - Waterloo University at Brave'
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# Software Engineering Intern - Waterloo University at Brave

- **Company:** Brave
- **Location:** Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/brave/jobs/8161945

## Job description

Software Development Interns - Waterloo University

Remote - Fall Semester

## About Brave

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, private AI assistant, latest privacy and security features, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. Already over 120 million people regularly use Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.

The internet is a sea of ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what’s true and what’s not. Brave is fighting back. Join us!

Brave is hiring 2 Software Engineer interns this fall from Waterloo University to assist adding AI, security and privacy features to our products.

Software Developer Co-op - Internship Role One

Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of data-intensive systems and AI-powered services.

Key responsibilities include:

- Build and maintain ETL pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading structured and unstructured data across internal systems
- Develop backend services and tooling in Python and TypeScript to support data processing workflows and API integrations
- Integrate and optimize LLM inference pipelines, including prompt engineering, model serving, and evaluation of large language model outputs
- Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes, including writing manifests, configuring autoscaling, and troubleshooting cluster issues
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve data quality, pipeline reliability, and system observability

Software Developer (Privacy) Co-op - Internship Role 2

Contribute to the design, development, and shipping of privacy and security features in the Brave browser (based on Chromium), bringing cutting-edge protections to 115M+ users without breaking the Web.

Key responsibilities include:

- Prototype, implement, and ship privacy-enhancing features end-to-end in C++ or Rust for the Brave browser
- Build browser-native privacy protections privacy-enhancing permissions and anti-fingerprinting defenses
- Navigate and contribute to an extremely large, complex codebase, applying knowledge of the Web security model and Chromium's architecture
- Work with Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to develop and validate browser features
- Collaborate async with a geographically-distributed, open source team using Git and GitHub

Working at Brave - What we offer

- Ability to work at an exciting and well-funded international startup headquartered in San Francisco
- Cutting-edge technology, allowing you to work with state-of-the-art tools and software solutions
- Competitive compensation of $6000.00 per month for 3 months
- Great international exposure and team atmosphere

If you are currently a student at Waterloo University, we would love to hear from you.  We offer flexible schedules to accommodate your studies.

## About Brave

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brave develops a privacy-first web browser and independent search engine that blocks ads and trackers by default, while offering a suite of tools including AI, VPN, crypto wallet, and an advertising platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding details not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with an additional office in London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript, co-founder of Mozilla) and Brian Bondy (formerly of Khan Academy and Mozilla)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Internet software – privacy-focused browser, search engine, and advertising.
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers seeking private browsing) and B2B (advertisers through Brave Ads, developers via the Brave Search API).
- **Mission**: “To build a user-first Web” – countering Big Tech’s data exploitation by giving users privacy, speed, and independence.

## Products & Services
- **Brave Browser**: A Chromium-based desktop and mobile browser that blocks invasive ads, trackers, cross-site cookies, fingerprinting, and more by default. Available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- **Brave Search**: An independent search engine powered by its own web index – one of only three global-scale indexes outside of Big Tech. Includes AI-powered answers (Summarizer) and a conversational interface (Ask Brave).
- **Brave Search API**: A publicly available API that provides real-time, independent search data for AI applications and other search tools. Used by Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, You.com, and others.
- **Brave Ads**: A private advertising network that offers high ROI for advertisers while respecting user privacy. Users can opt in to view ads and earn Basic Attention Token (BAT).
- **Brave Leo**: An AI assistant built directly into the browser. Can answer questions, summarize pages, generate content, translate, write code, and more. Supports multiple models including Anthropic’s Claude and Meta’s Llama.
- **Brave Wallet**: A browser-native, multi-chain crypto wallet for NFTs, DApps, and DeFi, with low fiat-to-crypto fees.
- **Brave VPN**: A secure, built-in VPN that hides IP address and masks location.
- **Brave Talk**: Browser-based encrypted video calling (peer-to-peer).
- **Brave Rewards / BAT**: Users earn Basic Attention Tokens for viewing privacy-respecting ads, and can use them to support content creators.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over 100 million monthly active users (MAU) worldwide, 42 million daily active users (DAU), and 1.6+ billion queries per month as of early 2025.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partnerships include AI companies like Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, and You.com (via Search API). Other partners are not detailed in public materials; press contacts available for inquiries.
- **Growth Signals**: Surpassed 100M MAU in 2025; Search API usage growing at an exponential rate; continuous expansion of language support (50+ for browser, 40+ for Search); new AI features (Leo, Summarizer) driving adoption.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Independent search index**: Brave Search is the only global-scale search engine not influenced by Google or Microsoft.
- **Privacy-by-default**: Unlike other browsers, Brave blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting out of the box – no extensions needed.
- **Integrated AI**: Leo offers a private, account-free AI assistant directly in the browser, with no data retention for model training.
- **Token ecosystem**: BAT and Brave Rewards create a unique economic model that directly compensates users and content creators.
- **Multi-product suite**: Browser, search, VPN, wallet, video calls – all in one app with a consistent privacy focus.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growing the Search API**: Making Brave’s independent index available to AI and search applications at competitive pricing.
- **Advancing AI capabilities**: Expanding Leo’s models and features (e.g., memory, temporary chats, language support) while maintaining privacy.
- **Increasing user base**: Continuing to grow beyond 100M MAU through word-of-mouth, partnerships, and default search settings.
- **Monetizing without compromising privacy**: Scaling Brave Ads and premium offerings (Brave Premium, VPN) while keeping core products free.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: Employees are driven by the mission to fix the internet’s privacy problems and take on Big Tech.
- **Remote & hybrid options**: Many roles are fully remote (US and global), with hybrid options for London and San Francisco offices. Some positions (e.g., Workplace Operations Coordinator in London) require in-office presence.
- **Engineering excellence**: Described as a “world-class engineering, security, and research team” – notable for working on cutting-edge browser internals, AI, and blockchain/crypto.
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Brave is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and does not discriminate.
- **Global team**: Employees work from around the world; offices in San Francisco and London.
- **Typical perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company offers a modern tech stack, opportunities to work on open-source (Chromium), and the chance to shape the future of the web.

## Sources
1. [brave.com/about](https://brave.com/about/)
2. [brave.com/careers](https://brave.com/careers/)
3. [brave.com](https://brave.com/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/brave-software](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software)
5. [builtin.com/company/brave](https://builtin.com/company/brave)

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