About the Role
We're seeking highly motivated technical interns to join us on a rolling basis!
This role provides hands-on experience with high-impact initiatives, offering the chance to build skills in autonomous agents, software engineering, ML, and product development within a fast-paced, innovative environment.
You will be exposed to high-impact projects with mentorship from experienced engineers and researchers along with access to internal resources aimed at building industry-relevant skills.
At this time we are looking for interns who can start with us immediately and be with us onsite in our Menlo Park office for a minimum of 40 hours a week.
Responsibilities
Assist with developing and maintaining scalable, efficient AI tools and infrastructure
Collaborate with engineering and research teams to support agent functionality
Qualifications
Pursuing or recently completed a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
Proficiency in modern programming languages (ie Python, Go)
Familiarity with large language models and multimodal AI frameworks
Understanding of AI/ML concepts and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Strong analytical skills, a proactive approach to learning, and the ability to work collaboratively
Startup-oriented mindset: comfortable with ambiguity and rapid iteration
Strong computer science fundamentals
Bonus
Competitive programming or research background (IOI, USACO Gold/Platinum, ACM-ICPC, ICML, ICLR, Neurips, UAI, RSS, CoRL, ACL, EMNLP, NACCL, JMLR, TMLR, or similar)
Open source project contributions
What makes us interesting
Small, elite team of ex-founders, researchers from top AI Labs, top CS grads, and engineers from top companies
True ownership You will not be blocked by bureaucracy, shipping meaningful work within weeks rather than months
Serious momentum We're well-funded by top investors, moving fast, and focused on execution
What we do
Ship consumer products powered by cutting-edge AI research, and
Build infrastructure that facilitates research and product, and
Innovate cutting-edge research that will open up new consumer product forms
The Details
Minimum 40 hours a week, onsite in Menlo Park
Startup hours apply
Generous compensation
Top Skills
What We Do
Fundamental Research Labs is building digital humans—machines with the capacity to learn, care, and grow alongside us.
We're an applied research company building autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent agents. Our small team includes computational neuroscientists, AI researchers, engineers, and builders from MIT EECS, Stanford NLP Group, Google X, Citadel, and beyond.
Our research prototypes began with multi-agent experiments in games like Minecraft and Roblox, where over a million people have interacted with our agents. Today, we're bringing those agents out of the sandbox and into the real world—starting with your computer.
