Founder's Associate Intern (f/m/d) - #945286

As a Founder’s Associate Intern, you support the Chief Research Officers & full-time Founder’s Associate in a wide range of strategic and operational projects, such as e.g., implementing project-management best practices, driving initiatives on boosting talent acquisition, and developing external communication toward the executive team and external stakeholders. The role offers a unique proximity to state-of-the-art GenAI research, and you will be able to work with some of the brightest scientists in the field.

You will be highly involved in some of the key challenges facing the department and will take ownership of a wide range of high-impact topics.

We are looking for interns for a duration of 5-6 months, starting ASAP in our Heidelberg office.

Your Responsibilities

As a Founder Associate, you can be asked to work on almost any subject, for example…

• Strategic projects: Drive a number of strategically important topics such as initiatives to boost our talent pipeline, community-growth efforts, and extension of our project management framework.
• Internal & external communication: Develop high-quality material for internal and external stakeholders that concisely communicates our mission, research, and results.
• Cross-department alignment: Co-design and implement processes that foster an open information exchange across departments.
• Funding Calls: Help manage the delivery and administration of results for several publicly funded projects.
  
  

Your profile

• Previous experience in a fast-paced environment such as consulting, venture capital, investment banking, high-growth startups, or similar. If you have alternatively built an impressive project or company we’d love to hear it in your application.
• We welcome applicants from a wide range of educational backgrounds (incl. business, engineering, natural sciences, …). A finished Bachelor’s or Master’s degree is nice to have but not required.
• You are a versatile generalist who can jump on any topic and get things done.
• You have an entrepreneurial self-starter mindset and an ability to work under uncertainty.
• You are humble, self-aware, and a team player.
• Fluent in English, German is a plus.
  
  

Our tenets

We believe embodying these values would make you a great fit in our team:

• We own work end-to-end, from idea to production: You take responsibility for every stage of the process, ensuring that our work is complete, scalable, and of the highest quality.
• We ship what matters: Your focus is on solving real problems for our customers and the research community. You prioritize delivering impactful solutions that bring value and make a difference.
• We work transparently: You collaborate and share your results openly with the team, partners, customers, and the broader community through publishing and sharing results and insight including blogposts, papers, checkpoints, and more.
• We innovate through leveraging our intrinsic motivations and talents: We strive for technical depth and to balance ideas and interests of our team with our mission-backwards approach, and leverage the interdisciplinary, diverse perspectives in our teamwork.
  
  

What You Can Expect From Us

• Become part of AI revolution!
• Aleph Alpha employees have 30 days of PTO per year, which is pro-rated based
  
  

on your hours of work

• Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub
• Mental health support through nilo.health
• Regular team events to stay connected
• Flexible working hours for better work-life balance and hybrid working model
  
  

Even if you don't tick all of the boxes, but you are motivated and want to work with us, you are very welcome to apply.