Posit Intern @ Posit PBC (formerly RStudio)

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Posit creates great software that helps people understand data and make better decisions in real-world applications. Our core offering is an open-source data science toolchain, and we aim to make it available to everyone, regardless of their economic means. We also develop enterprise products that help organizations put data science into production — including Posit Connect, a platform that makes it easy to deploy and share apps, APIs, reports, and notebooks securely at scale.

This summer we are hiring four paid technical interns to contribute to projects across our engineering and open-source teams. All four interns will start and end on the same dates, participate in shared programming, and have the opportunity to present their work to the broader organization.

Program Details

Duration: 10 weeks, May 26 to July 31, 2026, with the option to extend up to an additional 2 weeks if the intern is available and meaningful work remains
Location: Posit is a geographically distributed team — you can be based anywhere in the United States
Compensation: $30/hour assuming 40 hours per week
Eligibility: Applicants must be residents of the United States and legally authorized to work in the US

What to Expect

In addition to your project work, all interns will:

Participate in team meetings and meet regularly with their manager
Be part of a shared intern cohort with regular check-ins
Have the opportunity to write a blog post about their experience
Present their work to a large audience of Posit’s open-source and professional engineering teams in person and via blog posts

Interns are expected to be available for at least 8 of the 10-12 weeks of the program. Please plan accordingly when applying.

A Bit About You

All four internships are technical roles. Across positions, we’re looking for candidates who have strong coding skills in R or Python with a demonstrated focus on data-related work, and who are comfortable with Git and GitHub. An existing valid GitHub account is required to apply.

Your application must include links to one or more of the following: a package, a dashboard or web application, a data analysis repository, or other relevant software. We want to see what you’ve built.

Open Positions

Skills & Evals Intern — PyData Team

The PyData team is looking for an intern to help make AI agents better at using our Python open-source projects by writing skills and evaluations for common user tasks.

The core of the role is to identify the tasks users perform with our tools — such as Plotnine and Great Tables — translate them into clear skill definitions that agents can use, and build evaluations that measure whether agents can reliably complete those tasks. This includes writing prompts, creating example workflows, and developing automated tests that measure how well agents perform. A major focus will be applying the emerging skills format, while the broader goal is to improve documentation, examples, and API design across the PyData ecosystem in ways that make our tools work better with AI-assisted workflows.

R Modeling Intern — Tidymodels Team

The tidymodels R internship is focused on different tasks, including: expanding tabular deep learning models (in brulee), additional performance metrics for survival analysis models, modernizing the caret package, and/or Rust bindings for predictive models. The intern is welcome to suggest R-based projects focused on modeling and/or data analysis.

Shiny Accessibility & Testing Intern — Shiny Team

The Shiny team is looking for an intern to help advance accessibility and testing across the Shiny framework. You’ll audit Shiny components against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), implement fixes, improve test coverage, and contribute to documentation that helps the broader community build accessible Shiny apps.

Some of the harder problems in this role aren’t strictly code problems. Shiny’s components are built for flexible, abstract usage, so you can’t always anticipate how they’ll end up in a page. Making them accessible means understanding HTML semantics and WCAG well enough to exercise good judgment and make sensible compromises when there isn’t one clear right answer. Candidates should be comfortable with Git and GitHub, have solid working knowledge of HTML/CSS, and experience in at least one of R, Python, or JavaScript. Familiarity with WCAG, assistive technology, automated testing frameworks, or open-source workflows is a plus.

Software Engineering Intern — Posit Connect Team

The Posit Connect team is looking for an intern to contribute to the development and quality of Connect, Posit’s professional platform for publishing and sharing data science and AI applications at scale. The primary focus of the internship will be to contribute reports and applications to the Connect Gallery, an open-source collection of useful extensions and example content. These Python, R, and Quarto projects help data science teams realize the full potential of the product and allow us to experiment with new features. In the process of building these apps, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the Connect product as well.

Working at Posit:

We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
We prioritize giving ourselves “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software. We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.
Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community's interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.

Notable:

We offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being. These benefits apply to full-time positions only.

100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
All full-time employees are eligible for 401k enrollment starting on day one.

After six months of employment, Posit provides a substantial yearly match to employee 401K contributions.

An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Boston office.

We offer a $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental if you prefer to work away from home.

Our Lifestyle Savings Account offers an initial deposit of $1800 and then an additional quarterly stipend of $375 to cover the costs of professional development, wellness, financial health, charitable giving, and remote work support.
We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 15 paid company holidays.

Are you excited about this role but not sure if your experience aligns with every qualification in the job description? That’s okay. We know multiple perspectives are essential for a thriving organization and we'd still love to hear from you!

Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

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