Strategic Projects - Coding Intern
About The Position
AfterQuery is seeking exceptional candidates for our Technical Strategic Projects Intern position. You'll be joining us in SF full-time for the Spring 2026 semester. This is not a typical job – you'll work directly with our co-founder and CEO, Spencer, on high-priority operations and go-to-market initiatives. AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries and capabilities of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation. Our customers are the foundation model labs, and we serve all of the frontier AI labs. We are based in San Francisco, CA, and have raised funding from top investors, including Y Combinator and BoxGroup, ex-partners from Lightspeed and Index Ventures, and senior leadership at Google DeepMind and Meta GenAI. Our founding team brings backgrounds from Jane Street, Meta, Citadel Securities, Google, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), and Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL).
Requirements
- Enrolled in an undergraduate program, willing to relocate to SF for a gap semester
- Technical background (i.e., studies computer science, math, or statistics, or notable SWE/ML internship or research experience)
- Internship experience at a top consulting, finance, and tech firm
- Intense work ethic, agency, and drive
- Strong leadership experience and communication skills
- Excellent and quick communication (responds to messages in <1 hour)
- Attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Help create new expert-generated datasets
- Hire and manage small teams of domain experts across high-skilled professional services domains (i.e., doctors, software engineers, quants, lawyers, bankers)
- Collaborate with internal teams to drive groundbreaking AI research (i.e., UI-Bench , FinanceQA )
- Help design sales processes and strategies
- Design strategies to source contact information of new customers (researchers)
- Help create messaging, positioning, and value propositions for customers
- Support the founding team across various operational and sales initiatives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
