Product Design Intern

Job Description

Job Description

About Brilliant

Brilliant is creating a world of better problem solvers. We deliver learning that's interactive, adaptive, and fun – at scale. You can learn more about our approach, learners, and method on our about page.

We have always prioritized building a real, healthy business. We serve hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, and want you to help us serve millions. We are default alive (will be profitable before needing to raise), and make hires very selectively and intentionally.

In our day-to-day, we value adventure, excellence, generosity, and candor. We are optimists in the face of uncertainty, we take pride in our work, we go the extra mile for each other, and we tell it like it is (the good and the bad). We’re here to do the best work of our lives together.

We believe that real-time collaboration and human connection are necessary ingredients in building a high-velocity, creatively-oriented consumer product. We maintain core hours (9 : 30am - 2 : 30pm Pacific) when everyone is online, regardless of timezone. Over half of us are located near our hubs in SF and NYC.

In addition to what’s below, you can see all open roles and learn more about our culture on our careers page.

The Role

We’re seeking a highly motivated intern to join our design team.

By default, interns will join in Summer 2026. That said, we’re open to off-cycle internships for the right candidate. You’ll be working in-person in our NYC or SF office, with a pay-rate of $2,500 / week.

You’ll design interactives on Brilliant, the various game-like modules we build to teach math, science, data, and programming concepts. You'll design the core interactions that teach : the visual systems for feedback to support our learners, the way someone builds up and simplifies a symbolic math expression, drags code blocks, or wrangles a neural network on a phone.

The exact work is TBD, based on our priorities and your skillset. But it will be real work, on real priorities, affecting real users — not “intern projects.”

By the end of the internship, you’ll have made a material impact on our customers and the future of learning. You’ll have meaningfully up-leveled because of who you get to work with, and hopefully we’ll each be eager for you to start full-time ASAP.

You :

• Want to work at Brilliant full-time, and are graduating in 2027 (or sooner)
• Care deeply about craft and have developed your user interface and interaction design skills in and out of school
• Are energized by math, logic, code, and problem solving and how to teach these topics
• Have prior internship experience design products for real people
• Are already excellent at your craft, and want to be surrounded by people who will push you even further
• Specifically want to join a small company where every person works very hard and has outsized ownership
• Are driven by making useful things that impact real people (versus creating hype without utility)
• Are an excellent writer + reader (because we have a writing-heavy culture)