Surface Labs is an applied AI lab building AI-native infrastructure for B2B go-to-market teams. We operate two products today:
We're live in production with Surface AI agents processing 50K+ leads monthly, are backed by YC/Garry Tan and Dharmesh Shah (co-founder of HubSpot), and just doubled our team size in the last 2 months across Engineering, Design, and GTM.
You'll write blogs for Surface Labs. That's it. No code, no meetings, no BS.
Every blog you write that we publish on our website = you get paid. The better the blog performs — AEO visibility, traffic, pipeline influenced — the more you get paid.
You'll learn how modern AI-search content works in real time — what gets cited by AI engines, what doesn't, and how to write for a world where Google is dying. By the end of the internship, you'll be one of maybe 500 people on Earth who actually know how to write AEO content that ranks.
No code. No engineering. Just sharp writing + AEO discipline.
Bonus: You've already published blogs somewhere, built a newsletter, run SEO, or written on LinkedIn/Medium/Substack.
Simple. Performance-based. Uncapped.
US-based writers: $200–$500 per blog published on withsurface.com Rate depends on quality, length, and AEO performance. Top writers shipping 5-10 blogs/week earn $140K–$220K/year.
India-based writers: ₹3,000–₹15,000 per blog published on withsurface.com Rate depends on quality, length, and AEO performance. Top writers shipping 3–4 blogs/week earn ₹140K–₹190K/month.
Strong writers convert to full-time Content roles with equity (0.01%–0.1%) at the end of the 3-month internship.
No LinkedIn DMs. No emails. Discord only.
Good applications get a reply within 48 hours.
Day 1–2: You apply in Discord
Day 3–4: We review + reply in Discord. If it's a yes, we assign you the paid trial.
Day 5–10: Paid Trial Blog — we assign you a topic, you write a 1,500-word AEO-optimized blog in 5 days. You get paid the base rate ($200 US / ₹3,000 India) whether we hire you or not.
Day 11–14: Final Conversation (30 min) on Discord voice — we review your trial blog, discuss ongoing volume, confirm rates. Offer out same day if it's a yes.
Surface Labs helps B2B companies capture, qualify, and convert inbound leads through intelligent contact forms. We replace tools like HubSpot Forms, Zapier, and Chili Piper with a single platform that embeds on any site with one line of code.
Our AI agents handle lead capture, enrichment, routing, follow-up, and CRO testing — automating what used to require full marketing ops teams. Customers see a 30% lift in conversions in under 2 weeks, and our partial response capture feature collects 50% more emails from form drop-offs.
Salary
$120,000 - $190,000
Equity
0.01% - 0.1%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.