TeamFinder

Are you looking for highly-motivated individuals to join your team? Or are you a highly-motivated individual looking to join a team? Take a look at posts from your fellow Pitt students, alumni, and affiliates to see if there is a right fit for you!

412 Plates: Restaurant Partnerships Associate

412 Plates is a student-owned dining membership offering buy-one-get-one deals at eight partner restaurants around Oakland. We’re looking for someone reliable and comfortable starting conversations to help expand our restaurant network.

You’ll meet owners, explain the free partnership, follow up, and help launch restaurants, including training staff on redemptions. I provide leads, materials, and training; no sales experience is required.

This is a flexible independent contractor role, approximately 8–12 hours weekly. Pay is $125 per restaurant you recruit that goes live, or $75 per provided warm lead that goes live, plus a free membership.

412 Plates: Pittsburgh Marketing Associate

Help introduce 412 Plates to students through campus conversations, promotional items and fliers, and creative outreach. You can also create social media content and connect with student creators.

We’re looking for someone dependable, self-motivated, and creative. This flexible, part-time role is commission only: you earn 25% of membership revenue from each member you recruit for their first six paid months, plus a free membership. Those commissions continue even after you stop working with us.

Both roles require being in Oakland regularly.

Contact: Calvin Armstrong at calvin@412plates.com

Date Posted: October 2026

Software / AI Engineers: AI-Generated Pet Nutrition Formulas (Freyja Science)

Freyja Science develops pet supplement formulas to improve pet health. We are building an initiative that uses AI to generate bespoke nutritional formulas for individual pets, based on each pet’s health profile, breed traits, and age. We’re looking for software / AI engineers to help build it.

• Experiment with different AI approaches, such as LLMs and knowledge graphs, to find what works for nutritional formulation.
• Design proof-of-concept end-to-end models and pipelines that take in a pet profile and generate a suitable formula.
• Integrate those models and pipelines into other software systems, including ones that support human review.

• Familiarity integrating AI models (LLMs and others) into production or near-production applications.
• Familiarity with modern prompting and orchestration techniques, and with designing multi-step AI workflows.
• Judgment about where AI belongs and where it doesn’t: knowing when a step should stay deterministic, when a person should review the output, and when to wait for more data before automating.
• Strongly preferred: experience with multimodal AI systems.

• Flexibility: a semester internship, part-time work alongside coursework, or another arrangement that fits your schedule.
• A stipend, with the amount and scope agreed up front.
• Mentorship from the Freyja Science team.
• Experience taking an AI system from proof of concept to production.

Contact Information

Yiliang (Leo) Liang, PhD Student, Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D), Carnegie Mellon University: yiliangl@andrew.cmu.edu

Interest form: https://forms.gle/oyDEN122HBHyH2xf9

Date Posted: October 2026

Seeking Student to Help with Operations and Outreach!

Burgh Bonding designs, manages, and executes team programming for growing companies. We act as a company’s Culture Partner, taking the logistical and creative weight of employee engagement off your HR team’s plate – Learn more at Burghbonding.com

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for an energetic Pitt student to join the team to help accelerate our marketing and outreach efforts, and assist with planning company culture programs! This is an initial volunteer/internship style role with the direct potential to transition into paid project work or commission as we onboard new clients.

This a low stakes opportunity that can easily be done around a school schedule. Additionally, the student can make the experience what they want. If they have a particular skill or idea, we can find a way to put it into action!

What You’ll Do:

• Assist with direct email marketing, local outreach, and content ideas for social media (LinkedIn & Instagram).
• Help brainstorm, design, and plan engaging team building experiences and corporate event concepts.
• Connect with local Pittsburgh startup hubs, tech spaces, and business communities.

Ideal Qualifications:

• A flair for event planning, community building, or hospitality.
• Experience (or interest) working in a corporate, or fast paced business environment.
• Self starter attitude with strong communication skills and a passion for local Pittsburgh business.

Why Join?

You’ll get hands on experience building a local consulting company from the ground up, work directly with an experienced Pitt alum, network with local business leaders/HR directors across Pittsburgh, and build real case studies for your portfolio.

Additionally, our founder – Joe – has participated in the Pitt Big Idea events and competitions. He can provide guidance and mentorship!

How to Connect:

Contact: Joe Slomowitz (Pitt Alumni – 2023) at joe@burghbonding.com

Date Posted: September 2026

Open Call: Advisors for a Pre-spinout Pharmacogenomics Company

We have open calls for a pre-spinout pharmacogenomics company supported by the University of Pittsburgh Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Working directly from human patient brain tissue, we identify disease-modifying drug targets with pharmacogenomic and biomarker annotation, and we license this target intelligence to pharma and biotech. We do not develop or own drugs. Our platform has already validated new druggable targets across multiple independent patient cohorts.

We are opening these as advisory and consulting engagements now, each with a light commitment of up to 3 hours per week, with a path to a formal position as the company incorporates.

1. Bioinformatician, code and pipeline consultant
Scope: provide consultancy across our computational codebase, approximately 5,000 lines of R spanning the engine, the single-nucleus processing pipeline, and the web platform, and help onboard and maintain our Claude API integration for automated interpretation of results.
Education: bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, or a related quantitative field; master’s a plus.
Experience: single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq experience, fluent in R and Python (SQL). Comfort with API integration is a plus.
Commitment: up to 3 hours per week.
Path: Lead Bioinformatician on the founding technical team upon incorporation.

2. Pharmacogenomics Advisor
Scope: independently verify and double-check the drug-target and biomarker results the platform produces, and advise on their pharmacogenomic and small-molecule interpretation.
Education: bachelor’s degree in pharmacology, pharmacogenomics, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related life-science field; master’s a plus.
Experience: hands-on experience with open-source drug annotation engines (for example, PubChem and ClinicalTrials.gov), together with drug development or pharmacogenomics experience.
Commitment: up to 3 hours per week.
Path: Head of Pharmacogenomics upon incorporation.

3. Senior Biostatistician, statistical validation
Scope: independently validate the statistical methodology implemented in our engine for drug and biomarker target annotation, and advise on its robustness and reproducibility.
Education: master’s degree or higher in biostatistics, statistics, or a closely related quantitative field.
Experience: senior-level biostatistics expertise, ideally with high-dimensional or single-cell genomics data and with multiple-testing and resampling methods.
Commitment: up to 3 hours per week.
Path: Head of Biostatistics upon incorporation.

Email your CV and brief bio to Markley Oliveira Junior.

Contact: Markley Oliveira Junior at MAS1505@pitt.edu

Date Posted: August 2026

Seeking Co-Developer (Supabase/React) for Semi-Finalist Team

Hey, Panthers! I’m Ethan Tran, the founder of Dormcheck. We are a live student-led platform (Dormcheck.com) fixing the “information gap” in Pitt housing with real-world room setups and secure marketplace tools.
We just moved into the Semi-Finals of the Big Idea Competition, and I’m looking for a Co-Developer to help me build out the next phase. I’m doing a lot of the coding myself, but I need a partner to help with the heavy lifting as we scale for the spring housing rush.

The Stack:

• Frontend: React
• Backend: Node.js
• Database/Auth: Supabase (PostgreSQL + Realtime)

What we’re doing right now:

• Prepping for the March 20th Semi-Final Pitch for a shot at the $25,000 top prize.
• Scaling our backend to handle 1,000+ concurrent users.
• Refining the UX for our “Student Setup” gallery.

If you’re passionate about the Supabase stack and want to join a project that has real traction and a shot at $25k in funding, let’s connect!

Contact: Ethan Tran at EVT29@pitt.edu