Software Engineering Intern

Staying on top of thousands of stores, distribution centers, and replenishment managers is an age-old problem in consumer goods — one that is especially brutal for insurgent brands that are short on time and manpower. And it’s not a problem that will be solved with more software or more analysis: it’ll be solved with action and agents that can achieve real world results. That’s why Treater is the missing action engine for retail.

We're overturning a $200 billion industry of human sales reps that work for consumer brands from Olipop to P&G to ensure that stores are selling as much of their product as possible (typically through inefficient and lengthy store visits). Our AI agent replaces that manual labor by tirelessly working with store teams through email, text, and voice calling to ensure that every last revenue opportunity is captured for our customers.

Our mission is to enable brands and retailers to maximize sales while freeing them to focus on what they do best: delighting consumers. This will be a new world where, instead of relying on 4 disparate stakeholders in a 10-message email chain over two weeks to solve an issue that costs millions in sales, Treater's platform autonomously surfaces and resolves the same obstacle in hours. In just a few months, we’ve already driven millions of dollars in sales for a handful of launch partners.

We're looking for strong technical minds excited about this space to join us.

What You Might Do

Agentic Systems: Help us refine AI agents that text, email, and call retailers in real-time. You’ll build features that make these conversations feel human. We're seeing unprecedented growth in autonomous agent capabilities, and you'll be working hands-on with these advancements to push the boundaries of what AI agents can achieve in retail operations.
Full-Stack Dev: Drive end-to-end development across our technology stack, building and optimizing crucial components of our platform.
Infrastructure & Integrations: Make sense of unstructured, messy retail data that we ingest from all angles. Build the glue that keeps our data flows and scalable.
Anything Else: We're a small team, so you'll get to work on a little bit of everything. We encourage you to bring your ideas to the table and give you the autonomy to implement solutions that drive business value. If you see a way to improve our product or processes, you'll have the freedom and support to make it happen.

What We Promise You

High-Impact Work: We’re small, so everything you do will directly matter. No bureaucratic hoops or someone else to handle the “hard stuff.”
Exposure to Everything: We move fast. You’ll see product strategy, architecture, data modeling, AI research, pitch decks, and cutting-edge software in one summer (or semester).
You will work with everyone on the team and all of our customers. You will have a direct line to the founders. We do not build silos or org charts.
A strong technical team. Our team comes from Google, Lyft, D.E. Shaw, and many startups. We've worked on everything from web apps to distributed system infrastructure to commercial compilers/language tools to authentication systems to graph databases to container runtimes to real-time pricing systems.
Mentorship from within the company and our network.
Ownership & Autonomy: We trust you. If it makes sense and it fits the mission, build it.

What We Ask of You

Embrace a high-autonomy role. We’re small, so everything you do will directly matter. No bureaucratic hoops or someone else to handle the “hard stuff.”
You recognize output matters much more than meetings booked or lines of code written.
Passion for what we’re building and our customers. We will have tough days — and that’s when it’s really important for this job to be more than a salary or equity.
Empathetic, thoughtful, and positive when collaborating with teammates.
Pumped to work in person in New York City.
Appreciate what our customers do! CPG brands are really interesting to work with — and we’ll always have incredible snacks in our office.
You love writing code. You actively enjoy chatting about random technical topics.

Why We’re Amped About This

It’s not every day that we get to transform one of the most influential and lucrative industries in the world into something that’s not just more efficient, but more democratic. Consumer goods should succeed because they delight consumers, not because someone remembered to email a distribution center a reminder at 11:17 pm the day before a new SKU launches. We take on the nitty-gritty so that the brands can get back to what they do best: bringing great products to the world.

How to Apply

Email [email protected] with your resume and a short introduction about yourself.