Aifund
Engineer in Residence: Research Coach
Mountain View, CA · Contract
No sponsorship$10k-$10kDetected 114 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentLangGraphAI OrchestrationA/B TestingResearchMentoring
About the role
- AI is making it trivially easy for students to skip the hard parts of research.
- Citation verification grounded in real scholarly sources rather than generic model claims.
- A transparent authorship log that distinguishes student-written work from AI scaffolding or suggestions.
Responsibilities
- Own the user journey from early research question to draft refinement and evidence review.
- Design guardrails that enforce coaching behavior instead of drifting into ghostwriting.
- Build multi-step agentic workflows with strong traceability, citation grounding, and failure handling.
- Work with AI Fund's build team on product positioning, pedagogy, and technical tradeoffs.
- Experience building code sandboxes, notebook-style tools, or pedagogy-heavy products.
- Someone who wants a product problem that combines deep workflow design, safety, and clear commercial demand.
- You will be building an AI Fund idea, not bringing your own startup idea into the program.
- The process typically includes a Builder Event or equivalent working conversation, then a 48-hour Builder Challenge, then panel review with AI Fund build leadership.
Requirements
- Experience with citation grounding, retrieval, agent orchestration, evals, or developer-tool style workflows.
- Helpful but not required
- Experience with LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, or similar workflow tooling.
- You know how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to increase speed without surrendering product judgment.
Compensation
- $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total). This is a contract role during the residency. If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.
- This is a 12-week, on-site residency in Mountain View, CA ($10K/month).
- You will work directly with Andrew Ng to take this idea from concept to working product.
- If the idea validates, you become a co-founder.
- AI Fund writes a $1M check at a $4M valuation.
- We are only considering candidates within commuting distance from Mountain View.
Benefits
- Product judgment around trust, educational integrity, and how much help a student should receive.
- Edtech experience or a personal connection to research education.
- If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.
Company info
- US work authorization. We are unable to sponsor visas for this role.
- The goal is to pressure-test the idea quickly and honestly with real users and customers.
Visa & Work Authorization
- US work authorization.
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