Company Description
Backed by leading climate and American dynamism investors, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods and sea-level rise.
Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance. Our work supports climate resilience, disaster recovery, and defense across the United States and beyond.
We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it.
What to to Expect
We are seeking a software engineering intern who can design and maintain modern, scalable applications while owning our cloud and infrastructure layer. You’ll build responsive user interfaces, develop backend APIs, and architect deployments that can scale globally. OAuth/OIDC. You’ll thrive if you’ve worked on platform or infra teams (Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS) or as a product engineer at performance-oriented orgs (Stripe, Notion, etc.). Check out plan.terranova.inc for an idea of some of the web dev stuff you'll need to develop.
What You’ll Do
Design and implement performant, maintainable web apps using TypeScript, React/Next.js, and Node/FastAPI/Go.
Build and operate distributed backends with Postgres, Redis, and task queues.
Manage infrastructure-as-code deployments (Terraform/CDK) on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Implement CI/CD, 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
Full stack application development
Comfortable with the pace and intensity of early-stage startup life
Working towards a bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
U.S. permanent residency required
Preferred Skills and Experience
History of making stuff - hobby projects, industry experience
TypeScript
React/Next.js
Node/FastAPI/Go
Postgres/Redis/queues
Terraform/CDK
GitHub Actions/Argo
OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Sentry
iOS and Android app development
Compensation and Timeline
$20-28/hr + relocation + company perks
Summer Internship from May-September depending on your school schedule
Top Skills
What We Do
Terranova is rewriting the adaptation playbook by reshaping terrain itself. We do this with robots the size of cars that inject a wood slurry deep underground. This terraforming process precisely lifts properties out of their flood zones with no surface disturbance. This elevation is permanent and provides proactive protection for all types of infrastructure, wetlands, and new development projects. Our three robot and one mothership system can lift an acre by a foot every day, enabling rapid post-flood recovery. Please contact us at [email protected] for a quote on your elevation project.
