Valon Externship Program

Location

New York, NY (in-person, all three days).

• 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.

• 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. We're handing you all three.

• You're 16–21 at the time of the program. High school, college, gap year, self‑taught, or none of the above — all welcome.

• Paid stipend. Externs are paid for the three days. The amount is shared with shortlisted applicants.

• 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.

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Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.