About the Role
Company Description
Trifecta Enterprises is the operating entity behind a portfolio of AI products, platforms, and community initiatives founded by Christie Mealo — senior technology executive, AI product strategist, O'Reilly author, and founder. We build Kynra, an AI-native local event discovery and community platform. We lead Philly Data & AI, a 2,500+ member tech community across the Philadelphia region. Everything we build is connected. Everything compounds.
Role Description
This is a part-time, fully remote Summer 2026 internship — one spot each for a student from Temple University, Drexel University, and the University of Pennsylvania. You will own and ship a real software project over 10 weeks minimum. Not a mock project. Not a simulation. Something that runs and gets used.
The projects
• AI News & Insights Aggregator
• CRM Integration & Research Module
• Personal Brand Intelligence Dashboard
• Other potential projects, priority subject to change
The deal
• $15/hour, all working and meeting hours
• 10 hrs/week minimum, async-first
• Temple and Penn: start as early as May 15. Drexel: mid-June
Qualifications
• Enrolled in CS, data science, software engineering, or related program at Temple, Drexel, or Penn
• Strong foundations in at least one core programming language
• Familiarity with full-stack concepts — front-end, back-end, APIs, data
• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Comfort working independently and figuring things out
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) — we expect you to use them
• Graduate students preferred; ambitious undergraduates equally welcome
What you get
• Technical mentorship from a senior AI-native engineer — real code review, real feedback
• Direct time with Christie
• Real ownership over a shipped product
• A reference that actually means something
A note on values.
This is not the right opportunity for you if you don't believe the following are basic human rights:
• Women have the right to make their own healthcare and bodily decisions, without government interference
• LGBTQ people deserve full and equal rights under the law
• Every person deserves due process regardless of their background
• Democracy matters, and what's happening to it right now should concern you
If you're neutral on any of that, this isn't your project — and that's okay. But I won't compromise on it.If you read that last part and felt relief instead of resistance, let's talk.
Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGmWne8FZwAtR7yYBCgvgd6xEnqojxTd5dL1kbu_zs7FbANQ/viewform