We power people’s progress
At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled — and it’s creating real impact.
We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries — and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.
Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.
About the program
Preply AI Talent Accelerator is Preply’s first engineering internship — a 6-month paid program for AI-native builders at the very start of their careers. You will join one product team as a contributing engineer, work on real problems on the same roadmap as everyone else, and ship an AI-driven project that reaches millions of language learners and tutors worldwide.
We’re selecting 5 interns for the first cohort. Top performers will be considered for reserved junior engineering positions at the end of the program.
Check out more information about the internship and the selection process here: preply.com/...reers/aitalentaccelerator
What you’ll do
Month 1 — Onboard and contribute Learn your team’s domain and codebase while shipping small, real tasks from the team roadmap.
Weeks 6–8 — Scope your AI project With your dedicated mentor, define a one-page project brief: the problem, why AI-driven, the success metric, the milestones.
Months 2–5.5 — Build and ship Execute your project alongside regular team roadmap work. A meaningful, measurable result in production by ~month 5.5.
Month 6 — Final Weeks & Demo Day Present your project results to a committee of Preply directors and the CTO. Top performers will receive full-time junior engineering offers.
What you’ll get
Paid internship — do real engineering work on a real roadmap.
Dedicated mentor on your team + program-level mentorship group with bi-weekly check-ins.
Frontier AI stack — agents, LLM pipelines, AI-first workflows inside a company that ships AI to production daily.
Product work at scale — build features for a global ed-tech product with 150,000+ tutors and millions of learners from 180 countries.
Compounding skills — production engineering + AI research mindset + product thinking, compressed into six months.
Opportunity to become a Prepler — top performers will receive full-time junior engineering offers.
Who we’re looking for
3rd—6th year university student in a technical field (mathematics, computer science, physics) — or a recent graduate — or up to 2 years of work experience;
Working knowledge of at least one language: Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, or similar
English proficiency at B2 or above;
AI-native: you reach for AI by default — coding agents, LLM APIs, and AI-first workflows are how you naturally build, not a novelty;
Have wins or strong results in olympiads, AI/informatics competitions, or hackathons;
Open source contributions or a portfolio of shipped personal projects;
Based in Ukraine and able to commit to a 28—40-hour-per-week internship (ideally, full-time).
Key dates
🚀 Applications open — September 15, 2026
⏰ Application deadline — October 2, 2026
✉️ Offers extended — October 14, 2026
⚡ Start Date — October 19, 2026
Quick heads up
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We start screening from the first day applications open. The earlier you apply, the faster you move through the process.
The entire selection process is conducted in English. Business communication at Preply is in English, so this is also a signal
