Gauntlet AI Opens Free 10-Week, Fully Funded AI Engineering Fellowship in Austin
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-09-25
Gauntlet AI is accepting applications for its 10-week, full-time AI engineering fellowship, which is free for selected candidates — travel, housing, food, compute, and frontier model access are covered by hiring partners recruiting from the program.
- Format: 3 weeks remote, then 7 weeks in person in Austin, TX
- Focus: moving beyond prototyping to production AI systems that ship to thousands of real users
- Weekly builds: candidates must ship under real constraints and deadlines every week
- Hiring: companies evaluate candidates by watching them build in real time, not by résumé
Aimed at experienced engineers who want a forcing function to become AI-first, applications are open now.
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