Founder's Associate Intern (f/m/d)

Aleph Alpha’s mission is to deliver sovereign, human-centric AI to governmental institutions and large enterprises. To that end, we deliver category-defining AI innovation that enables open, accessible, and trustworthy deployment of GenAI in industrial applications. Our organization develops foundational models and next-generation methods that make it easy and affordable for Aleph Alpha’s customers to increase productivity in development, engineering, logistics, and manufacturing processes.

• The role:
• As a Founder’s Associate Intern, you support the Chief Research Officers & Research Strategy Manager 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’ll contribute to a breadth of initiatives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment; one week, you might be preparing reports for the board; another week, you’ll be helping facilitate our research organization's project planning and objective setting for the next quarter.
• Your responsibilities:
• As an FA, 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.
• 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.

• Who you are:
• Previous experience in a fast-paced environment such as consulting, venture capital, investment banking, high-growth startups, or similar. Alternatively, if you’ve built an impressive project or company, we’d love to hear about 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.
• 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.
• Our Tenets: