AI + Elite Basketball | Summer 2025
Duration: ~8 weeks (June 16 ~ Aug 11)
Onsite (Putnam, CT), with housing supported through PSA’s campus
Type: Unpaid internship, with potential path into a deeper role beyond summer
Open to candidates with CPT, OPT, and H-1B

About Us

This internship is hosted by PAI (Precision Athletics Intelligence), a new AI athletic program by Putnam Science Academy (PSA) — one of the most elite basketball-focused high schools in the U.S.

• PSA has won 5 National Prep School Basketball Championships, in 8 years, most recently in March 2025
• The school’s mission is to deliver world-class private high school education while developing players for NCAA and NBA levels
• PAI is built to bring AI into high-performance sports and education, starting with this summer MVP project

This is PAI’s first technical initiative, aiming to create a foundational performance analysis platform for PSA’s nationally ranked basketball program — with high visibility and real-world application from day one.

 

What You’ll Build

You’ll join a small, focused team building an end-to-end system to:

• Ingest training video and AI-generated data
• Display insights via web/mobile interface (shot charts, movement heatmaps, player metrics)
• Support coaches and athletes with real-time, intuitive access to performance analysis
• Help lay the groundwork for future AI-powered training & educational tools

This product will serve elite athletes and coaching staff immediately, with long-term potential to scale across teams and domains.

Your Role

As a Full-Stack Developer Intern, you’ll lead or co-own the system's software foundation — from data APIs to front-end dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Build front-end interfaces using React.js / Next.js / similar
• Design UI components to display player data, visualizations, and video insights
• Implement backend endpoints to deliver model results (FastAPI, Flask, or equivalent)
• Structure and query training data using PostgreSQL or Firebase
• Work with ML engineers to connect the model layer to the user interface
• Ensure a responsive, intuitive user experience for coaches and players

 

What We’re Looking For

Core Skills

• Experience with front-end frameworks (React.js / Vue.js / similar)
• Familiarity with backend APIs (REST, FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
• Comfortable working with databases (PostgreSQL, Firebase, or equivalent)
• Git version control and collaborative workflow

 

Mindset

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has real confidence in their ability to learn fast and figure things out independently
• Can take vague or high-level product goals, and turn them into working code
• Works through ambiguity with speed, structure, and clarity
• Cares about doing real work that gets used — not just academic experiments
• Is genuinely interested in basketball and understands the game at a basic level
• Thrives in a builder-style environment with ownership, speed, and open problems

 

Bonus (Not Required)

• Experience with mobile or cross-platform development (React Native, SwiftUI)
• Background in data visualization (Chart.js, D3.js, ECharts)
• Familiar with video playback or annotation features
• Prior involvement in sports (as athlete, analyst, or developer)

 

Who Can Apply

We welcome candidates from a variety of backgrounds:

• Undergraduates (junior/senior preferred) with strong project experience
• Master’s students in CS, or related fields
• Self-taught engineers or bootcamp grads with strong portfolios

• International students welcome — we support CPT, OPT, and H-1B pathways

We value your ability to build and think clearly over your academic label.

 

Why This Matters

This is not a typical early-stage internship.

While our tech team is just starting out, our platform isn’t. You’ll be building within a system that already has:

• A championship-level basketball program
• Immediate real-world users: athletes and coaches with daily training needs
• A founder with full access to decision-making, facilities, and execution
• A high-trust environment where things move fast, and feedback is real

In many ways, PSA provides what most startups seek after Y Combinator:

A live environment, institutional support, immediate demand, and the room to build and scale.

 

If you have:

• Strong learning ability
• Clear technical thinking
• Ambition to turn huge ideas into real systems

…and you're excited by sports, education, AI, and building things from scratch — you’ll thrive here.