A paid internship on the human division at MADITECH, the company behind JOEY. You pick a track, you ship real work on real products, and if you pass the Final Exam at the end, your onboarding spot is guaranteed.
The guarantee
If the four conditions below are met, MADITECH will offer you a paid onboarding spot on the human division. There is no second interview loop and no separate hiring committee standing between you and that offer. The exam is the bar.
You complete the full internship term.
You pass the end of internship Final Exam.
You are legally eligible to work in the United States at that time.
A seat is open on your track when you finish. If it is not, we offer you the nearest track that is staffing, or hold your guaranteed spot for the next cohort, whichever you prefer.
What we are not doing on this page is naming a title, a team or a start date, because those are set per cohort and a detail invented for a recruiting page is worse than no detail at all. You will have all three in writing, and time to think about them, before you accept anything.
This internship is paid. The rate is agreed case by case, based on your track, your experience and the hours you can commit, and it is stated in writing in your offer before you accept anything.
16 of 20 seats in the first cohort are open. The recruiting evening runs the first of every month, 7pm to 9pm, and the dates are further down this page.
The tracks
You apply to a track and you spend most of your time in it. You are also on a team small enough that crossing into another track is a conversation, not a transfer request. Plenty of people arrive wanting to write code and leave knowing they would rather design, or the reverse.
The part of the company that is actually AI. You work on the agent fleet that runs the business, not on a chat box bolted onto a form.
Curiosity about why a model did what it did, and the patience to measure it instead of guessing.
Ship pages and features to production sites that real people load today, in the same repos the full-time team uses.
You have built something on your own and shipped it somewhere a stranger could use it.
Turn what the fleet does all day into numbers somebody can act on, and keep those numbers honest.
You are the person who asks where a number came from before quoting it.
We have well over a hundred landing pages and a free tool suite. This track owns whether any of it gets found.
You can write clearly and you would rather publish something honest than something clever.
Several brands, one small team. Design here means deciding what a brand is, not decorating a page after the fact.
A portfolio with your reasoning in it, not only the final frames.
The showroom floor is where JOEY was built. This track sits closest to the actual customer problem.
Care about the person on the other end of the message. This track is held to the strictest safety rules we have.
A fleet of daemons and services runs around the clock. This track is why it is still running tomorrow.
You find it satisfying rather than tedious to make a thing fail on purpose.
Real nonprofit experience alongside the commercial work, on a 501(c)(3) serving children and families.
Steadiness and discretion. You will be near families at a hard moment, and that comes first.
The Final Exam
The exam exists so the guarantee can exist. It is the same bar for every track, applied to the work of that track, and it is designed to be passable by anyone who genuinely did the internship rather than sat through it.
A real piece of work on a real surface, scoped with your supervisor at the start of the term and shipped before the end of it. Not a toy exercise and not a take home puzzle. Something that goes live and that you can point at afterwards.
You walk the team through what you built, why you chose that approach, what you tried that failed, and what would break if somebody deleted your work. Explaining the reasoning is the part we grade hardest, because it is the part that shows you understood the system.
Something real goes wrong in front of you and you work it. We are not looking for the fastest fix. We are looking for whether you verify before you claim it is fixed.
You will know how you are tracking against all three long before the end. Your supervisor tells you where you stand at the midpoint, in writing, while there is still time to do something about it. Nobody gets to the last week and finds out for the first time that they were behind.
University class credit
What we do is build the program so it clears the bar most schools set for an internship that counts, and then do the administrative work that usually falls on the student. When your school sends paperwork, we fill it out. When it wants a supervisor evaluation, your supervisor writes it. When it wants signed hour logs, we sign them. When it wants to speak to somebody here, there is a named person to speak to.
Whether credit is awarded is your institution's decision alone, and requirements differ between schools and even between departments. Confirm with your advisor or internship office before your first day, and tell us what they need. We would rather adjust the paperwork up front than find out at the end that a form was missing.
MADITECH is not an accredited educational institution and does not claim to be. Nothing on this page is an accreditation, an affiliation, or an endorsement by any school.
Subject to your institution's approval in every case. If your school requires something not on this list, send it to us and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
TRUETH FoundationThe TRUETH collaboration
TRUETH Jin Sun Do is a movement-based mental and emotional regulation program for children ages 5 to 17, with particular focus on neurodivergent children. It was developed by Grand Master Won Kuk Kim over sixty years of martial arts mastery and thirty years of direct practice with neurodivergent children in Greater Seattle, unifying ten disciplines into one methodology.
Every session runs on three elements, structured breathwork, movement sequences, and emotional literacy. Cohorts are intentionally mixed, placing neurodivergent and neurotypical children together, which removes the stigma of a mental health program and replaces it with the pride of mastering something hard alongside others doing the same. No child is turned away for financial reasons.
MADITECH builds and runs the technology behind it. Interns on any track can take TRUETH work alongside their commercial work, and the TRUETH track is entirely nonprofit program work. Your hours there are nonprofit hours, and we will document them as such for your school.
Read the full mission at trueth.groupTRUETH programs support wellbeing through movement, breathwork, and community. They are complementary to, and never a replacement for, professional medical, psychological, or educational care.
What you would be working on
This is the whole portfolio, not a highlight reel. Products, client brands, a nonprofit, a free tool suite, and the internal platform that keeps all of it running. Interns work on this list. Which part depends on your track.
Every mark shown on this page belongs to MADITECH or to a brand we build and operate. We do not display university, partner or press logos here, because we are not going to imply an endorsement nobody gave us. Portfolio snapshot taken 2026-08-05.
Recruiting days
You should not have to guess what a place is like from its website. The first of every month, 7pm to 9pm, at TRUETH headquarters. Come and see the team and the systems before you commit to anything. Nobody is turned away at the door for not having signed up.
Two hours with the team at TRUETH headquarters. We walk through what each track actually does, show the systems running, answer whatever gets asked, and talk to anyone who is ready. Same event every month, so if you cannot make this one there is another one four weeks later.
All four are at TRUETH headquarters, Seattle, WA. The exact address is sent to you when you RSVP.
Add the monthly evening to your calendarThe calendar file repeats on its own, so it keeps working past the four dates listed here.
16 of 20 seats in the first cohort are still open. 4 are taken. That number is updated when a seat is actually filled, so it is the real one.
This is the first cohort of a new program. The list below is everything we have not settled. None of it is hidden in a footnote and none of it is filled in with a number we made up, because you would find out the truth on day one anyway and by then you would have moved your life for it.
Request information
This is not an application and it commits you to nothing. It puts you on the list for the first cohort and gets you the answers to the open items above as soon as they are settled. If you would rather just come and meet us first, the recruiting evening runs every month and the next dates are above.
Looking for a full time role instead? Those are on the careers page. General questions can go through contact.
