_ This role has the potential to convert to a full-time position as an Strategic Projects Associate. _
AfterQuery is seeking exceptional candidates for our Strategic Projects Intern position. This is not a typical job – you'll work directly with our founding team on high-priority projects spanning product development, research, and operations.
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).
Key Responsibilities
Work closely with the world’s leading AI labs to build next generation datasets to push the boundaries of AI to the limits, directly generating revenue for the company
Manage teams of experts across a wide variety of professional domains, like finance, software engineering, and law
Create and execute on sales memos and the development of data samples
Support the team across various operational initiatives
What We Are Looking For
Proficiency or strong interest in AI tools and technologies and Microsoft Office
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Willingness to work 6 days a week, extremely high levels of agency
Ability to learn very quickly and iterate
Preference: technical skills (able to use AI tools like Claude Code)
Preference: ability to start as soon as possible in-person in SF
Your Growth
Develop unparalleled AI fluency and AI hard skills
Gain a network of frontier AI researchers, builders, and investors
Learn how to build a company from 0 to 1
Direct mentorship from founding team
Replacement for entry-level IB and consulting roles
AfterQuery is helping push the frontier of LLMs and AI Agents through novel datasets and experimentation. We work on building the most complex infrastructure that powers frontier data creation for agentic and hard reasoning workflows. We work with all 5 of the leading AI labs and are becoming the go-to partner for data infrastructure for YC companies. We have a sharp hockey stick growth rate and are extremely talent-dense, with most of our founding team coming from top IB and quant firms.
Salary
$90,000 - $90,002
Location
San Francisco
Total raised
$34.0M
Last stage
Series A
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.