Internships · Cohort September 2026

Build real companies. Get paid in experience that compounds.

We're opening dozens of internship seats across the EX Venture portfolio — Seraph, Zero-X, Gemino AI, CCM, and Equation Labs. Six months, full-time, inside operating businesses with real customers and real consequences. This is not a course. It's an apprenticeship.

Bali · Indonesia Las Palmas · Canary Islands 6 months · Full-time Unpaid apprenticeship
01 / The deal
Six months. Full-time. Unpaid.
We don't dress this up. EX Academy internships are unpaid, full-time placements inside live operating companies. You cover travel and living. We cover mentorship, campus access, and a seat at a table most people never get near.
02 / The work
Real ventures. Real customers.
Not shadowing. Not projects with fake data. You join a product team on day one, own a piece of the roadmap, and ship to customers who pay us. If your work is bad, the customer tells us. If it's good, it stays in production.
03 / The outcome
Full-time offers. Frequently.
We're hiring a lot of full-time roles across the portfolio, and most come from inside this programme. If you deliver, we'd rather make you an offer than hire a stranger. That's the honest pipeline, and it's how most of our operators joined.

Why this transforms people

It's not the certificate. It's the compression.

Six months in Bali inside a real company will teach you more about building, selling, and shipping than three years of lectures. Here's the mechanics of why.

You ship, not study

Every deliverable lands in front of a paying customer or a production system. Feedback loops are measured in days, not semesters. You either get better fast, or you find out fast.

You're mentored by operators

Your mentors are the founders and CEOs of the portfolio — people currently running what you're working on. They review your code, your deck, your pricing. Because it's their product.

You exit with a network, not a grade

Twenty-six nations in the cohort. A portfolio of eight operating companies. Alumni running ventures across three continents. The network is the actual credential.

Open Roles · Cohort September 2026

Eight companies. Dozens of seats.

Each role below sits inside a live operating company. You're embedded with the team from week one. Indicate your preferred company in your application. Business Development and Grant Writing seats at EX Venture are our highest-priority needs right now.

Seraph
AI-driven precision biology and agricultural robotics. Vision systems, genetic signal processing, autonomous field platforms. Multi-disciplinary — we hire across the AI/biology seam.
Hiring · Multiple
Bali Campus

AI Vision Engineer

Build and deploy computer vision models on live field data. CNNs, vision transformers, edge inference.

AI Recognition Engineer

Species, disease, and phenotype recognition pipelines. Annotation frameworks, dataset ops, model evaluation.

Biologist

Field and lab work supporting the ML and breeding programmes. Protocols, sample integrity, data provenance.

Geneticist

Genomic analysis, trait mapping, phenotype-genotype correlation. Comfortable in Python or R on sequencing data.

Farming & Agronomy Intern

Ground-truth the models. Crop trials, soil work, field operations. You translate biology into data we can train on.

Robotics Intern

Platform work across mobile robotics, perception stacks, and field hardware. Sensor fusion, ROS, embedded systems welcome.

Zero-X Group
Distributed energy, waste-to-power systems, industrial equipment design. Fifteen years of field deployments across twelve countries. We need engineers who like building real, physical, load-bearing things.
Hiring · Multiple
Bali Campus

CAD Designer

AutoCAD and 3D modelling for industrial systems. Drawings that get built — not renders that get pitched.

Electrical Engineer

Power systems, controls, grid-tie topologies, instrumentation. Comfortable moving between schematics and a real panel.

Mechanical Engineer

Thermodynamics, rotating equipment, fluid handling, pressure systems. Bonus if you've touched gasification or biomass.

Technical Sales

Translate engineering into customer value. Scoping, proposal writing, pricing, cross-border deal support. Engineering backgrounds strongly preferred.

Sales Intern

Front-line sales development for Zero-X's distributed energy and waste-to-power systems. Lead qualification, outbound sequences, discovery calls, pipeline hygiene. You learn to sell a capital-equipment product, not a SaaS demo.

Business Development — Energy

Own market-entry research for new geographies. Partner scouting, competitive mapping, deal-structure analysis. You travel with the senior team on live deals.

EX Venture TOP PRIORITY
The parent operating company. Cross-portfolio strategy, capital formation, grant capture, and ecosystem BD across all eight brands. If you want to see how a multi-company operator actually runs, this is the seat — and it's where we most urgently need people.
Hiring Urgently
Bali Campus

Business Development Intern

Our highest-priority seat. Partnership sourcing, inbound qualification, pipeline ops across the full EX portfolio. You'll touch deals in AI, finance, energy, and carbon within weeks. Confident writers and operators only.

Grant Writer Intern

Also top priority. EU, German, Indonesian, and international grant programmes. You research funding calls, map them to our portfolio, and draft submissions with direct founder review. Outstanding writing in English is non-negotiable; German is a significant plus.

Strategy & Research Intern

Market maps, competitive briefs, thesis papers. You support the CEO's research queue and produce the documents that drive portfolio decisions. Analytical writers and ex-consultants thrive here.

Operations & Programme Management

Make the machine run. Cadences, KPIs, cross-company programme tracking, supplier and partner ops. High leverage, generalist seat.

Impact & ESG Intern

Frame and measure the impact case across the portfolio. Reporting, methodology work, investor-grade impact narratives. Good for social-science, sustainability, or development backgrounds.

Chief of Staff Intern

Direct support to Julien Uhlig, CEO. Shadow the week, draft outbound, prep for meetings, own follow-through. The most exposure-dense seat in the Academy. Selective — apply only if you are ready to operate at senior-executive pace.

EX Media
The content and production engine for the whole EX family. Editorial, brand, video, podcast, design, social. We publish across eight brands and a book — we need operators who can ship daily and keep quality high.
Hiring · Multiple
Bali Campus

Marketing Intern

Campaign planning, channel strategy, performance ops across EX brands. You'll run growth experiments end-to-end — hypothesis to dashboard.

Media Production Intern

Video, audio, podcast. Shoot, edit, publish. You build the asset library and the cadence behind our founder-led content engine.

Editorial & Content Intern

Long-form articles, landing-page copy, brand storytelling. Strong voice and a willingness to work inside a defined brand system across eight different audiences.

Social Media Intern

LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. You own the cadence, the hooks, the analytics, and the comment sections. Comfort with AI-assisted workflows expected.

Brand & Visual Design Intern

Typography, layout, brand systems, figma-to-HTML fluency. Our sites are hand-built and design-led — you'll work directly on them.

AI Content Operations Intern

The EX Command Centre — our internal Gemini-powered content platform — is where you'll operate. Workflow design, prompt engineering, output QA. You productise founder-voice content at scale.

EX FI
Our FCA-track financial infrastructure arm — payments, treasury, stablecoin rails, and the agent-native banking stack. Rare chance to sit inside a regulated fintech building for the agentic AI economy.
Hiring · Multiple
Bali Campus

Finance Intern

Treasury operations, cash management, FX, reconciliations, financial modelling. You'll support the controller function across multiple entities. Strong Excel and accounting fundamentals required.

Private Banking Intern

Client onboarding, wealth structuring, cross-border account architecture, relationship ops for high-net-worth mandates. KYC/AML literacy and serious discretion required.

Payments & Product Intern

Payment rail integrations, stablecoin flows, and agent-wallet product design. You'll work on the next generation of our MCP banking toolkit alongside engineering.

Compliance & Risk Intern

FCA application work, policy drafting, transaction monitoring, risk register ownership. A seat at the centre of our regulated build — law, risk, or compliance backgrounds strongly preferred.

Agent Banking Research Intern

Research and prototype work on Authorisation Envelopes, Agent Merchant Protocol, and agentic-payment eval harnesses. Lives at the seam between our EX FI and EX AI teams.

Gemino AI
Industrial AI automation out of Leipzig, Germany. Flagship product OptiVX. We're hiring into the ML, data, and agent stack — shipped systems, production workloads, enterprise customers.
Hiring · Multiple
Bali Campus · Leipzig HQ

AI Vision Engineer

Industrial vision pipelines — defect detection, quality control, process monitoring. Edge-to-cloud inference.

Database Engineer

OLAP and OLTP workloads at scale. Pipeline design, data quality, governance. Postgres, ClickHouse, warehouse patterns.

AI Agents Engineer

Autonomous agent systems — tool use, planning, eval harnesses. MCP tool design a plus. You'll be close to EX FI's agent-payments work.

Neural Networks Researcher

Architectures, training optimisation, distillation, deployment economics. We care about models that run in production, not papers that don't.

CCM
Carbon Capture Materials GmbH — thermal processing, sorbent chemistry, hard-tech energy materials. We need engineers and physicists who enjoy translating thermodynamic first principles into built equipment.
Hiring · Multiple
Bali Campus

Oilbath Dryer — Design & Implementation

Full-cycle engineering on the oilbath dryer platform. Thermal modelling, vessel design, instrumentation, commissioning. You'll own a build, not a slide.

Chemical Engineer

Process engineering across drying, separation, and sorbent regeneration. Mass and energy balances that actually close.

Physicist

Heat transfer, phase-change physics, transport phenomena. Comfortable building the models that later become controllers on our rigs.

Mechanical / Process Support

Flex seat for a sharp generalist engineer supporting the dryer build. Fabrication, welding supervision, commissioning, safety systems.

Equation Labs
Our new Las Palmas (Canary Islands) office is staffing up for a September start. Applied research and build studio — a smaller cohort, closer to the founding team, Atlantic-time-zone coverage for EX Venture's European operations.
Sept 2026 · Las Palmas
Canary Islands · Spain

Founding Studio Interns

Multi-disciplinary seats across AI, product, engineering, and operations. You're in the room as we stand the office up — the most formative way to join.

AI & Research Roles

Applied ML, agent architectures, and research that crosses between the EX AI and EX FI product lines. Strong fundamentals required.

Engineering & Product

Software engineering, systems design, and product operations. Fullstack comfort plus a taste for shipping is what we want.

Business & Operations

Partnerships, go-to-market support, and the unglamorous-but-decisive work of standing up a real office in a new jurisdiction.

How to apply

One email. One decision.

Send your CV, a short note telling us why this role and this company, and any work samples — GitHub, portfolio, field photos, project reports, anything you've built. No cover-letter formula. We care about what you've done and what you want to do next.

academy@exventure.co
Subject: EX Academy Application — September 2026 Cohort