Valon Externship Program

What you'll do

• Spin up on the same AI tooling Valon engineers ship with — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, MCP servers, and Valon's internal tooling — on Day 1.
• Pick a project that matters to you. An agentic workflow, an eval harness, an internal tool, a developer-experience problem — your call.
• Build alongside the engineers who built Valon's AI tooling stack. Pair, ask anything, watch how they actually work.
• Demo what you built to the team on Day 3.
• Stay close after the program ends — strong demos lead to follow-up conversations with Valon engineering and recruiting.

Ideal background

• You ship. Projects, repos, side businesses, research, weird experiments — anything that shows you can take an idea from zero to something real.
• You're already AI-native. You're using coding agents and modern AI tooling daily, not for the first time. You have opinions about which ones are actually good.
• You can talk about your work. You can explain what you built, what broke, and what you learned. Without slides.
• You bring your own ideas. You have a list of things you'd build if you had the time, the tokens, and the right people next to you.

The basics

• Paid stipend. Externs are paid for the three days.
• Travel and housing. Not covered by default. If getting to NYC is a blocker, tell us in your application and we'll see what we can do.
• Under 18. Parent or guardian consent is part of the application process.
• In-person. All three days are at Valon's NYC office. There is no remote option for this program.
• Dates are fixed. July 8–10, 2026. The program runs as a cohort, so partial attendance isn't possible.