Design Fellowship 2026

Archetype AI•San Mateo, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Archetype AI, we are building the foundation for Physical AI: intelligence that understands and reasons about the physical world through sensor data. Our foundation model is trained on hundreds of millions of real-world measurements. Instead of learning only from documents, it learns from the behavior of the world itself. The result is a system that can interpret physical environments, not just language. This shift introduces a fundamental design question: If AI is no longer confined to a chat interface, what does interaction look like? How do people work with intelligence that is continuous, ambient, and situated? How do you visualize what the model perceives? How do humans and AI build a shared understanding of what is happening in the world? We are launching a 10-week Design Fellowship for students who want to help explore these questions. Each fellow will be matched to a focused project, scoped for the duration of the program. These are not speculative exercises. The work ships, informs product direction, or advances our understanding of how people relate to Physical AI. You will collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and designers. You will build working prototypes using the latest advances from our R&D team, at the intersection of the digital and the physical.