_ **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.
## Company Overview
[
AfterQuery
](https://www.afterquery.com/) 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