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As a paid intern, you’ll be a valued part of the team from day one-no coffee runs or making copies. You’ll take on meaningful projects that impact our business, attend meetings, share your insights.\nOur internship program is designed to help you explore career opportunities, build valuable skills, and grow both personally and professionally. Work alongside a supportive and dynamic team to see what being part of Nitro is all about.\nJoin Nitro’s Core Tooling Engineering Team\n\n Nitro’s Core Tooling Engineering Team builds the shared libraries and tools that power capabilities across Nitro’s products. Our goal is to build core functionality once, so that product teams across the company can reuse it.\nWe work mainly on libraries and tooling, primarily in C++. 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