What our interns work on
Each intern takes a question of their own and works on it with the founders and our scientific advisors. One of these questions is already a paper, accepted at NeurIPS 2026; the other three are under way.
What you could work on
Althea is our research assistant, helping with literature, code and experiments. Lacuna is our research library, connecting papers, concepts and research directions. Try both before you apply: bring a real question, see what helps, and think about what you would improve.
Lacuna
How can we help researchers find relevant papers, connect ideas, and understand emerging research directions?
Alien Science
How can we identify and evaluate promising research ideas that existing communities have overlooked?
Your Althea
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How can we build and evaluate AI assistants and multi-agent systems that help researchers understand literature, write code, run experiments, collaborate, and decide what to investigate next?
Your own question
Bring a problem you want to solve. If it overlaps with the questions we work on, we will shape a project around it together.
What we look for
You don’t need to be equally strong in research and engineering. Depth in one and curiosity about the other is a great fit. Above all, we value a willingness to learn and to share your ideas, progress and questions with the team.
Motivation
You care about building AI tools that support machine learning research, and you are curious how researchers could use them in their everyday work.
Research
You are interested in AI tools that assist and automate machine learning research, from understanding papers and generating hypotheses to running experiments, and you enjoy checking whether they actually help.
Software engineering
You are familiar with Python and want to learn how real applications are built and maintained, working with tools such as PostgreSQL, FastAPI and Git.
What you’ll gain
We look for a focused project where your interests overlap with the questions we want to answer, with room for you to shape the approach.
Software development in industry
Learn through hands-on work and feedback on your code, from implementing features to testing and improving them.
Applied research
Investigate questions in AI research assistants, research discovery or automated experimentation, and learn to connect experimental results to useful tools.
Close work with the team
Define a focused project together with the founders, develop your approach, and contribute to Althea, Lacuna or our broader research projects.
The internship
We offer research and software engineering internships, primarily through Mitacs, for students and postdoctoral fellows.
- Focus
- Research, software engineering, or a mix of both
- Location
- Fully remote
- Program
- Primarily through Mitacs
- Open to
- Students and postdoctoral fellows
- Time remaining
- At least 6 months left in your academic program or appointment
- Graduating soon
- Exceptions where the fit is particularly strong. Tell us your situation.
- Start
- As soon as possible, or on a date you choose
- Application
- A résumé and a few short answers. No cover letter.
Apply now.
Three short steps: who you are, what you would like to work on, and your résumé. No cover letter is needed. We’ll review your application and get back to you as soon as possible.