Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Create, research, write, edit, publish, and optimize global marketing content for musicians, podcasters, videographers, and streamers. Support SEO, GEO, AI-informed content strategy, competitive audits, customer-needs research, social media, blogs, graphics, digital collateral, and interviews with subject matter experts. Coordinate with agencies and freelance writers, curate materials from internal teams, and manage content updates through Jira and Sitecore. This is a hybrid summer internship based in Niles, Illinois.

Administer and optimize global on-premises and cloud infrastructure across Windows, Linux, SAN, database, virtualization, and AWS/Azure environments. Lead performance monitoring, disaster recovery, compliance, automation, outage response, root-cause analysis, and infrastructure security. Support global cross-functional initiatives, establish operational standards, and mentor infrastructure team members. Manage VMware and Proxmox environments using Python and PowerShell while ensuring reliable production and manufacturing operations.

Supports New Product Management and manufacturing teams with process development, NPI build readiness, issue tracking, manufacturing documentation, prototype builds, risk identification, project milestone tracking, and corrective actions. Assists with design for manufacturing and assembly, FMEA efforts, production launch preparation, and coordination with manufacturing plants and project stakeholders. The intern works under close supervision and may travel to Mexico for onsite manufacturing support.

Administers global short-term incentive compensation plans, including plan implementation, audits, reconciliations, payment calculations, reporting, participant communications, training, and process improvements. Serves as the primary contact for incentive-related questions, ensures payment accuracy and policy compliance, and provides management with analyses on plan performance and effectiveness.

Supports research, testing, and implementation of AI solutions for business processes, data analysis, and decision-making. Develops AI prototypes and proof-of-concepts, creates reports and dashboards, documents workflows and best practices, and collaborates with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback. The role provides practical experience with AI tools, analytics, process automation, and cross-functional project delivery.

Design, develop, test, and optimize embedded Android software for professional audio products. Build custom AOSP images, integrate BSPs and HALs, develop low-level C/C++ code, JNI bindings, system services, and Kotlin/Java applications. Diagnose complex performance and system issues, architect maintainable solutions, review code, document work, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, develop, test, and integrate real-time multitasking embedded software for wireless audio products. Responsibilities include wireless protocol development, hardware drivers, networking, software architecture, UML modeling, code reviews, debugging, and unit and integration testing. The engineer collaborates cross-functionally on product architecture, documents and estimates work, and applies established development methodologies to deliver reliable embedded systems.

Supports the development and testing of platform-independent middleware and application software for audio products and networking technologies. Responsibilities include implementing business logic, prototyping with TypeScript, Angular, Node.js, and C++, writing high-quality unit-tested code, and documenting tasks under engineering mentorship. The internship is a twelve-week summer program with remote or hybrid work based in Niles, Illinois.

Conduct user research for product development by identifying research needs, designing and executing interviews, usability studies, surveys, and field studies, analyzing findings, and presenting actionable insights. Collaborate with designers, product managers, developers, researchers, and business stakeholders through workshops, presentations, and reports.

Develop and test front-end cloud applications for managing Shure devices and supporting system functionality. Collaborate cross-functionally on audio products, specify software components, model systems with UML, document tasks, review peer code, and apply maintainable software development practices. The role involves serverless AWS environments, databases, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, Angular or similar frameworks, and TypeScript/Node.js development.