Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Capital Factory
Austin Startups
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16 min readApr 17, 2017

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It’s getting warmer here in Austin and that can only mean one thing–summer is right around the corner, and with summer comes summer internships. Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team!

Visual Semantics
Visual Semantics builds cloud-based software to stream ‘predictive intelligence’ to AR/VR hardware and software applications primary for real time threat analysis.

Internship Title: Computer Vision Intern
Compensation: Paid
Description: Intern will help optimize an artificial intelligence platform that uses computer vision and machine learning to perform facial recognition and track and predict human behavior in crowds.

Skills required include programming in Python (C++ preferred) or a deep experience in one or more other languages. A background in mathematics, computer science, or similar discipline is a real plus.

To Apply: Please send your resume to admin@visualsemantics.io

JustLegal
JustLegal is a SaaS enabled marketplace allowing people to connect with the right lawyer in their area and schedule a free initial consultation.

Internship Title: Marketing Operations Intern
Compensation: Unpaid, free lunch, 12+ hours per week
Duration: April 2017-May 2017 / May 2017-July 2017 / August 2017-November 2017
Description: As the Marketing Operations Intern you will be doing a wide-ranging variety of tasks including, but not limited to, designing & ordering swag, planning and preparing for meetings/events, drafting or editing a blog post, analyzing or editing a spreadsheet, designing printouts, etc.

To Apply: Email your resume or detailed LinkedIn profile & short description of why you’re interested in startups, particularly JustLegal, to rc@justlegal.com.

Internship Title: Development Operations Intern
Compensation: Unpaid, free lunch, 12+ hours per week
Duration: April 2017-May 2017 / May 2017-July 2017 / August 2017-November 2017
Description: The Development Operations Intern will support the JustLegal team with a wide variety of tasks including, but not limited to, task management, making modifications and improving processes, development support such as workflow and system diagramming, prototyping, database pruning, dataset modifications, and software development.

To Apply: Email your resume or detailed LinkedIn profile & short description of why you’re interested in startups, particularly JustLegal, to rc@justlegal.com.

SkimKing, Inc.
SkimKing is an autonomous swimming pool skimmer that automatically cleans the surface of pools of any size and shape.

Internship Title: Marketing Intern
Compensation: Unpaid, minimum of 10 hours per week
Description: The Marketing Intern will work closely with the Marketing Manager to generate and implement campaign ideas and measure their effectiveness. You will be creating and scheduling social media posts for our Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter accounts. This will include management of both organic and paid media and replying to any comments made on those posts.

You need some Photoshop skills — mostly to resize and crop images — and the ability to write persuasive ad copy. Marketing basics are needed as well so you can research our target audience and understand them to deliver content that drives email signups and crowdfunding backers. You will also have the chance to contribute to our email campaigns, website and crowdfunding profile as well as any other marketing materials or campaigns we think up.

To Apply: Please email Greg Farrenkopf at Greg.F@skimking.com with your resume and a short cover letter.

SocialMatters.ai
SocialMatters.ai is a conversational Marketing Service that drives quality web traffic to your blog/web content by engaging with relevant people when they have relevant Tweet conversation.

Internship Title: Business Development Intern
Compensation: Paid — $10/hr
Description: The Business Development Intern will assist the Sales Team in Prospecting, Outreach and Qualifying leads, and work directly with the Business Development Manager. CRM experience is preferred, however, you will be trained. This position will provide sales, negotiation, CRM and inbound/outbound outreach experience.

To Apply: Send your resume to jeffry.lurie@socialmatterz.com

Partake.
Partake’s location-based app connects golfers to the clubhouse allowing users to order food & beverages and items from the pro shop, straight to your cart.

Internship Title: Sales and Strategy Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: Candidates should have a high desire to be creative and enthusiastic. We need candidates who are driven, take initiative, have proficient organizational skills, and previous sales/business development background. *golf interest or background will be a plus*

Candidate should also be comfortable working in and outdoors. Candidates will learn our culture and how to go through steps of sales cycle with Lead Generation, B2B and B2C sales and account management.

To Apply: Please email brian@partakegolf.com with your resume and cover letter.

OtterLogic
OtterLogic is a marketplace for less than truckload freight shipments that increases profits for carriers while lowering costs for shippers.

Internship Title: Marketing Intern
Compensation: Paid
Description: This role works closely with the founders to uncover and explore new online and offline marketing possibilities for the company. It will come with a lot of autonomy and clear expectations for success, but you should know the basics of online marketing and be able to function productively without being micro-managed.

To Apply: Fill out the form and submit a resume at: https://otterlogic.co/jobapply

Chiron Health
Chiron Health is HIPAA-compliant telemedicine software allowing doctors to see their patients over video with full reimbursement.

Internship Title: Marketing Intern
Compensation: Paid
Description: Assist the marketing team on daily tasks in addition to cross-department marketing campaigns. Help Chiron Health achieve company goals by working hard, learning on the fly and providing new ideas.

The Marketing Intern will perform a wide variety of tasks including, but not limited to, collecting quantitative and qualitative data from marketing campaigns, performing market analysis and research on competition, and drafting content for blogs, website, social media, etc.

All applicants are required to have a background in Marketing, Communication or related discipline, a passion for the Startup environment (especially health tech), and proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with ability to learn other programs.

To Apply: Please email your resume, a brief introduction about yourself and what interests you about Chiron Health to: marketing-team@chironhealth.com

PopUp Play
PopUp Play is a turnkey digital-to-physical design platform that makes it easy for consumer brands and companies to deliver custom product experiences on-demand. We provide a design interface and on-demand manufacturing capability to meet the needs of next generation’s retail consumers. Using our touch-based design app, consumers can create and order their own designs that we deliver to their doorstep in days.

Internship Title: Marketing Intern
Compensation: Unpaid, 15–20 hours per week (some weekends)
Description: You will be on the ground floor of one of the most exciting startups in Austin and you will have fun! Tasks include, but not limited to:

  • Plan, maintain and execute social media editorial schedule and event schedule
  • Engage and pitch relevant bloggers and social media (twitter) accounts
  • Identify and build relationships with thoughts leaders in relevant fields
  • Report success of efforts using a metric jointly developed with company founders
  • Maintain and grow email lists
  • Plan and execute on email list engagement

Who we are looking for:

  • Creative thinker who learns quickly when facing new problems.
  • You are pursuing or have completed a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, PR or related field.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • High proficiency on Twitter, Facebook and social media in general
  • Proficiency in google docs (G suite) platform.
  • Work well independently and collaboratively as a team member

It would be awesome if:

  • You have previous startup experience.
  • You can write for consumer and business audiences (especially parents and kids)

Come help us build an awesome company with lots of hard work, laughter, and fun.

To Apply: Please apply here

Cingo
Cingo is a cloud help desk that integrates directly into mobile applications to improve and streamline the customer service experience.

Internship Title: Front End Developer Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: As the Front End Developer Intern at Cingo, you’ll help improve customer and expert web app cosmetics. Applicants should have experience with React, HTML, CSS, Javascript.

To Apply: Please email kobus@cingo.me

appVuze
appVuze is the Customer Support Tool for Mobile Enterprise Apps. It helps customer support troubleshoot app issues with users in the field quickly and simply. No need for phone calls, emails or mirroring, just press the help button within the UI and customer support can see everything the user sees.

Internship Title: Software Development Intern
Compensation: UnPaid
Description: appVuze is looking for a Software Development Intern who is pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar discipline. Our ideal candidate is hands on, passionate, persistent, creative, and a DOer.

The Software Development Intern must have experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript as well as using web development frameworks like node.js, JQuery, ReactJS, angular.js.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Kristyl Gomes at kristyl@appvuze.com

Internship Title: Digital Marketing Intern
Compensation: UnPaid
Description: appVuze is looking for a Digital Marketing Intern who is working towards a degree in Marketing, Communications or other related fields. Our ideal candidate will have exceptional organizational skills and able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

The Digital Marketing Intern must have experience with creating digital content for various marketing functions (email, web, adverts, brochures, blogs etc.), familiarity with use of social media on a corporate level, as well as experience with SEO best practices, designing landing pages, and website analytics tools (Google Analytics).

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Kristyl Gomes at kristyl@appvuze.com

Peeple
Peeple is a smart camera that attaches to existing peepholes and easily connects to home Wi-Fi to identify, inform, screen, and alert people to any outside presence. If someone knocks, opens, or closes your door, you will get a push notification on your phone. With the Peeple app, you can see who is at your door whether you are home or not.

Internship Title: Social Media Strategy Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: We’re looking for interns to devise a social media strategy and help us maintain contact with our thousands of customers. We interact daily with customers through chat, email, web, Facebook, and Twitter. Our ideal candidate is a person with warm interpersonal skills as well as strong customer success qualities.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Chris Chuter at chris@building10.com

Dinner Elf
We founded Dinner Elf in 2014 because as two busy parents, we weren’t pulling off family dinners. Cooking and cleanup was taking away from homework help and takeout was unhealthy, so we thought some elves could help. Our chefs improve family dinners (a huge benefit for kids), help friends in need, and allow working moms to “have it all.”

Internship Title: Marketing Wizard
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: As an intern you’ll work with the founders and team of chefs on a variety of projects. We value you and will make sure you receive a learning experience that fits your career goals.

Your job duties will include, but not limited to, developing online marketing campaigns with a long-term calendar, building relationships with our online community through social media, cultivating and nurturing “influencer” relationships, both on-line (bloggers) and off-line (hair stylists, personal trainers, lactation consultants, doulas, etc), and organizing a chef social meetup at Capital Factory.

We seek talented interns who are self-starters, crave learning and take ownership, and who have strong written and communication skills. The Marketing Wizard will have fluency in social media — lots of creativity — understanding of the pain point of our customer and communicate it effectively — outgoing personalities (someone who walks into a room of people and makes new friends) — excitement to engage on the “front lines” with customers, influencers, and culinary talent.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Nicole Vickey at nicole@dinnerelf.com

Aunt Bertha
Aunt Bertha makes it easy for people facing social needs — and those who help others — to find and make referrals to appropriate programs and services for food, shelter, health care, work, financial assistance and more. We serve those working in healthcare, education, government, child welfare and more.

Internship Title: Marketing Intern
Compensation: Paid
Description: The Marketing Intern will be helping Aunt Bertha with their external marketing. From the easy stuff (compelling social media), to the wide reaching stuff (getting us written up in press), to the most seen stuff (making our website content and images better), to advising on the big picture stuff (helping us build a more well known, trusted brand).

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Tyler Hartung at tyler@auntbertha.com

Internship Title: Growth Hacking Intern
Compensation: Paid
Description: The Growth Hacking Intern will help drive usage, adoption, and partnerships among non-profits and programs listed on the Aunt Bertha website.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Tyler Hartung at tyler@auntbertha.com

SchooLinks
We’re a fast-growing startup, committed to revolutionizing how students plan for college.

Internship Title: Marketing Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: As a marketing intern at SchooLinks, you will help define marketing strategy, help execute the plan and gain insight into the startup world.

Our ideal candidate will have an understanding and know how to use social media, have experience in market research, as well as know how to create fun and engaging content, i.e. Buzzfeed.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Katie Fang at katie@schoolinks.com

*Must be a current student or recent grad to qualify.*

Internship Title: Business Development Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: SchooLinks is looking for an Business Development Intern with an entrepreneurial mind who wants to impact the future of education, as well as a passion for solving problems, ability to work in a team environment, and the ability to communicate effectively.

As the Business Development Intern you will learn sales and development process, evaluate the challenges school districts and colleges face, prospect and convert qualified leads, and use content and influence marketing to lead generation.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Katie Fang at katie@schoolinks.com

Internship Title: Engineering Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: SchooLinks is looking for an Engineering Intern with an entrepreneurial mind who wants to impact the future of education, as well as a passion for solving problems, ability to work in a team environment, and the ability to communicate effectively.

As the Engineering Intern you will prototype technology evaluation results and integration, improve dev setup environment (local and integration env for testing), deploy Automated Testing — phpunit, Karma, Selenium, unittest, pytest, deploy to AWS, and conduct Technology Evaluation — front end frameworks, backend db, caching, NoSQL.

Skills required -

  • PHP (Cake or similar preferred)
  • Python (Django or similar preferred)
  • HTML, CSS, LESS
  • JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS preferred)
  • Database (MySQL preferred)

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Katie Fang at katie@schoolinks.com

Internship Title: UIX Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: SchooLinks is looking for an UIX Intern with an entrepreneurial mind who wants to impact the future of education, as well as a passion for solving problems, ability to work in a team environment, and the ability to communicate effectively.

As the UIX Intern you will work directly with the development team to bring your design to life, conduct user research online and with focus groups, and shadow head of product design and design UI.

To Apply: Email cover letter, resume, and portfolio link to Katie Fang at katie@schoolinks.com

Albino Dragon
Albino Dragon Games is committed to bringing great games to the table. Combining high quality art, design, and components to make games that look and feel as good as they play. We bring our ideas to you using crowd-sourcing sites such as Kickstarter to make sure that you are a part of the creation process, so our games will reflect a piece of you, the gamer.

Internship Title: All-Around Amazing Intern
Compensation: Unpaid, 10–20 hours per week
Description: Our ideal intern is someone that is a self-starter, has the ability to be given a task and can go figure out how to get it done with minimal instruction. The skill sets we are most in need of are marketing, social media, graphic design, content creation (video, articles, etc), and sales.

There are a ton of other facets to the business that you’ll likely pick up along the way (licensing, marketing, retail, etc), so there is plenty of work for anyone willing to learn, but the listed skills are the ones that would help us the most and likely be open positions within the next year or so. Did we mention that part of the job is to also play games?

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Erik Dahlman at erik.dahlman@albinodragon.com

AUTHORS.me
AUTHORS delivers insights and predictive analytics to entertainment companies during the acquisitions process, supporting editors and producers in making smart project decisions. This cutting edge technology reads thousands of manuscripts in minutes and analyzes hundreds of key attributes. This brings scale to the first and crucial step in Entertainment — determining the right project to pursue. Meanwhile, the writers are assured of their best chances to be matched to the right agents, publishers, and producers.

Internship Title: B2C Marketing Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: The B2C Marketing Intern will help the team with managing the website, blogging, social media, and writer communication.

To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to monica@authors.me

Internship Title: B2B Marketing Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: The B2B Marketing Intern will help AUTHORS.me with researching competitors, spend by studios for comps, development, etc., researching potential customers (studios and publishers), and finding leads.

To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to monica@authors.me

Internship Title: Operations Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: The Operations Intern will help the team with organizing decks, accounting, materials, calendars, and managing internal tools to increase team’s productivity.

To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to monica@authors.me

Yip Yap
At Yip Yap we are changing the way kids (and their parents) do wireless! We have created a complete solution that combines age-appropriate hardware for kids with easy-to-use parent controls in the form of a smartphone app which parents can use to manage and curate connections to content and contacts directly from their own phone.

Internship Title: Android Game Developer Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: The Android Game Developer Intern with help build out Yip Yap’s free and paid gaming content library.

A basic understanding of Android game coding, not necessarily to build games from scratch but to take existing games and map controls to our d-pad interface. You will be doing a variety of “quick” projects that use same skills/approach. Knowledge in iOS and android app development preferred.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Michael Smith at michael@yipyap.com or Angela Smith at angela@yipyap.com

Internship Title: Database Analyst Intern
Compensation: Unpaid
Description: The Database Analyst Intern will have a knowledge of SQL, Python, AWS, dynamic databases to mine system usage data from our databases, allowing us to better understand how our users are engaging our technology.

To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Michael Smith at michael@yipyap.com or Angela Smith at angela@yipyap.com

Interested in other opportunities? Join our Jobs Facebook Group to find out about jobs at startups in Capital Factory’s amazing workspace in the center of downtown. If you want to get in on the ground floor at a startup and work at the best office in Austin — join this group and keep an eye out for your perfect opportunity. You should also follow @CFStartupJobs on Twitter.

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