# Valon Externship Program
**Company:** [Valon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/valon)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Skills:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Mcp Servers, AI Tools, Coding Agents, Agentic Workflows, Eval Harnesses, Developer Experience
**Posted:** 2026-05-26
> Three-day in-person externship (July 8-10, 2026) in NYC for 16-21 year olds to build real AI tooling projects alongside Valon engineers using production tools.
## Job Description
## 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.
**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/valon-externship-program-at-valon-90261def-4c87-46e0-ac9a-304145a4ee24
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