Fall 2026
Software Engineer Intern
Updated on 9/4/2026
Terranova
11-50 employees
Sequesters CO2 with underground wood chips
Compensation Overview
$20 - $28/hr
No H1B Sponsorship
Berkeley, CA, USA
Hybrid
Part-time on-site work is required.
Bachelor's, Master's
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- Working towards a bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- U.S. permanent residency is required.
- Ability to work on-site part-time is required.
- Design and implement performant, maintainable web applications using Vue, Nuxt, and TypeScript, with backends written in NestJS, Rust, or Go.
- Build and operate distributed backends with Postgres and TimescaleDB, including work within serverless constraints.
- Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, observability, and incident-response workflows.
- Collaborate with product and robotics teams to integrate data, telemetry, and control interfaces.
- Build customer-facing and internal tools.
- Develop full-stack applications.
- A history of building projects, including hobby projects or industry experience.
- TypeScript.
- Vue and Nuxt.js.
- NestJS, Rust, or Go.
- Postgres, TimescaleDB, or queues.
- GitHub Actions or Argo.
- OpenTelemetry, DataDog, or Sentry.
- iOS and Android app development, with a focus on cross-platform programming.
Terranova provides carbon credits by sequestering carbon in the ground using underground wood chips to raise land and prevent inundation of plots and structures. The wood chips method works by distributing and burying wood chips underground, offering a low-cost way to elevate land and capture CO2 in trees and soil; the credits are sold through their website. The company differentiates itself through a low-cost, scalable approach to elevation compared with traditional methods and by tying forest-management incentives to chip-based sequestration, including encouraging removal of dead trees to prevent future fires that would release CO2. The goal is to build a market for wood chips that incentivizes local forest stewardship and CO2 sequestration, encapsulated in the motto “Think Globally, Sequester Locally.”
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$7M
Headquarters
San Rafael, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Terranova closed a $7 million seed round in November 2025, three times oversubscribed.
- Its San Rafael target, $92 million, undercuts $500 million to $900 million alternatives.
- The official 2026 site shows active commercialization for housing, commercial, industrial, and wetland projects.
What critics are saying
- San Rafael’s first field pilots in 2026 still face permitting, geology, and execution failure.
- TechCrunch reported experts questioning earthquake impacts from consolidated wood slurry underground.
- Seawalls and dikes remain proven alternatives; one bad pilot can kill municipal adoption.
What makes Terranova unique
- Terranova’s November 2025 seed round backed Outlander and Congruent, validating category leadership.
- The Ark system raises one acre one foot per day through autonomous wood-slurry injection.
- The company sells land elevation plus carbon credits, linking flood defense and decarbonization.
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Company News
Instead of building seawalls or dikes, Terranova has developed a new way to raise cities to protect them from sea-level rise.