This is a remote position.
VULCURY
Applied AI Research Intern
Vulcury is a venture studio operating across a consulting practice and a portfolio of subsidiary ventures, including Trustbridge (AI-enabled manufacturing supplier matching) and Calisade (research and investment). We are seeking an Applied AI Research Intern to lead active, hands-on exploration of the AI tools landscape and identify where new AI capabilities can materially improve our own operations, our subsidiary businesses, and the outcomes we deliver for clients.
This is not a role confined to one function or one business line. The mandate is company-wide: this person will systematically survey the AI tooling landscape, trial promising tools directly, and bring back sharp, evidence-based recommendations on where Vulcury should adopt, where we should build, where we should partner, and where competitive or market threats are emerging that leadership should be tracking.
Sales & Marketing: identify AI tools and workflows that could improve prospecting, outbound, content production, and funnel performance across the consultancy and subsidiary ventures
Operations & G&A broadly: evaluate AI applications across finance, legal/compliance support, research, and other shared functions
Maintain a running, structured view of the competitive and partner landscape — which vendors and tools are gaining traction, which are relevant threats or substitutes to our own offerings, and which are worth a partnership or build/buy conversation
Translate findings into clear, decision-ready recommendations for leadership: what to adopt, what to pilot, what to ignore, and why
We hire against four core traits, regardless of prior AI-specific experience:
Communication — clear speaking, writing, listening, and a sense of timing for what leadership needs to know and when
Beyond the four core traits, useful (not required) background includes:
Exposure to AI/ML tooling, LLM-based products, or automation platforms as a user, builder, or researcher
This role reports directly to the CEO. Given the cross-functional scope of the mandate, this intern will work closely with functional leads across the organization (Development, HR, Growth, and Operations) as needed to understand current workflows before recommending where AI tooling fits.
This is a full-time, India-based internship with a paid stipend.
Please share your resume along with a short written response (under 300 words) describing an AI tool you've personally used or evaluated recently — what it was for, what worked, and what didn't. We're less interested in polish here and more interested in how you actually think about evaluating a tool.
