USD per year
About the role
Aemon is building the first autonomous AI research engineers: systems that can take a hard scientific or technical objective, understand the frontier, generate hypotheses, run experiments, evaluate evidence, and keep improving until they discover validated breakthroughs. This is our first internship role. You will join as a real member of the core technical team and work directly with the founders on the core systems behind Aemon. We designed this as a full four-month internship because we do not think a short work trial is enough for either side. Aemon is working on deep, ambiguous, long-horizon problems. It takes time to understand the system, build taste for the research loop, take real ownership, and show how you think when the answer is not obvious. Four months gives us enough time to evaluate you holistically: your technical ability, judgment, speed, creativity, rigor, and ability to turn ambiguity into progress. Just as importantly, it gives you enough time to evaluate us. You should have the freedom to form a real view of the team, the problem, the culture, and whether Aemon is the place you want to bet on. We want people who choose us with conviction, not because of a rushed process. For exceptional interns, this internship can be a path toward a full-time founding technical role.
What you might work on
Depending on your strengths, you may work on:
- Long-horizon AI agents
- Post-training & RL
- Hypothesis generation and search
- Codebase understanding
- Experiment orchestration
- Benchmark and evaluation design
- Research infrastructure for running large numbers of experiments
- Product surfaces for interacting with autonomous research systems
Who we are looking for
You may be a fit if you:
- Are exceptional at computer science, mathematics, or systems thinking
- Have built serious projects outside of class
- Can learn unfamiliar technical areas quickly
- Enjoy working on ambiguous, open-ended problems
- Care about elegant solutions, not just working solutions
- Are comfortable going from research idea to code to experiment to analysis
- Want to work on problems where the answer is not already known
Nice to have: Have a track record of original technical contributions through publications, open-source, or other impactful work We especially like people who have strong evidence of technical excellence: olympiads, competitive programming, math competitions, research projects, open-source work, systems projects, AI projects, or other work that shows unusual ability.
Why Aemon
Aemon is a small...