Marketing Intern - AI/ML at Inception in San Mateo, CA

Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Our Mercury model is the world’s fastest reasoning LLM and first commercially available diffusion LLM, delivering 5x greater speed and efficiency than today’s LLMs, with best-in-class quality.

We are the AI researchers and engineers behind such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO.

The Role

We're looking for a Marketing Intern - AI/ML to own Inception's voice across X, LinkedIn, and more. The ideal candidate is at the intersection of Marketing and AI and has a curiosity for language models.

This is not a content scheduling role. You'll report directly to the Head of Marketing and interact regularly with the founding team. You'll be in the room for launch planning, have context on the product roadmap, and make real-time editorial calls about what to post, when to engage, and how to respond. The internship is designed to convert to full-time for the right person.

Commitment: Flexible: part-time (10–15 hrs/week) or full-time (up to 40 hrs/week).

Duration: 3-month engagement, with a path to full-time based on performance.

Compensation: $30/hr

Key Responsibilities

• Write and publish social content for Inception's X and LinkedIn accounts
• Monitor AI/ML conversation in real-time and engage on behalf of the company — responding to mentions, joining relevant threads, and surfacing opportunities to the team
• Run the social playbook for product launches, partnership announcements, benchmark results, and events (GTC, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
• Create short-form video content: launch demos, speed comparisons, developer testimonials, and technical explainers
• Engage the developer community on Discord, Hacker News, and Reddit

Qualifications

• Student (undergrad or grad) in CS, EE, MS&E, Communication, or a related field. You understand how LLMs work at a conceptual level and can hold a technical conversation. Open to select recent grads.
• Active on socials. You already follow AI Twitter. You know who Andrej Karpathy, Swyx, Jim Fan, Andrew Ng, and Artificial Analysis are. You have opinions about which AI lab has the best social presence and why.
• Strong writer with voice control. You can write a technical thread that earns respect from developers, Fortune 500 enterprises, AND a punchy launch post that gets broad engagement.
• Operator, not observer. On launch day, you're not watching from the sidelines. You're monitoring threads, engaging with developers, making real-time decisions about what to amplify, activating the Inception team, and keeping the team momentum going.
• Video and visual skills are a plus. If you can create short-form video content — demos, speed comparisons, explainers.
• You've built something with an audience. Your own X account, a newsletter, a podcast, a YouTube channel, a campus publication. Something where you created content that people engaged with. Show us.

Why this internship?

• Real ownership from day one. You're not writing drafts for someone else to approve. You will own the accounts. Your judgment, your voice, your calls.
• Direct access to the founding team. You'll work with the Head of Marketing daily and interact with the founding team regularly. Front-row seat to how a venture-backed AI company goes to market.
• Help build the function. You'll work with an experienced GTM team to shape Inception's social presence from the ground up — creating playbooks, processes, and voice that scale with the company during hypergrowth.
• Category-defining moment. Diffusion for language is a new paradigm. You'd be helping define how the world understands this technology — from the researchers that pioneered it.
• Path to full-time. This internship is designed to convert to a full-time opportunity.

Why Join Inception

• Work with World-Class Talent: Collaborate with the inventors of diffusion models and leading AI researchers
• Shape Foundational Technology: Your decisions will influence how the next generation of AI products are built and used
• Immediate Impact: Join at the ground floor where your contributions directly shape product direction and company trajectory

About Us

Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Today’s autoregressive LLMs generate tokens sequentially, which makes them painfully slow and expensive. Inception’s diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) generate answers in parallel. They are 5x faster and more efficient, while delivering best-in-class quality.

Inception was co-founded by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, who co-invented such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO, UCLA professor Aditya Grover, who co-invented node2vec, decision transformers, and d1 reasoning, and Cornell professor and Afresh co-founder Volodymyr Kuleshov, who co-invented MDLM and Block Diffusion.

We pioneered the application of diffusion to language, with world’s first (and only) commercially available dLLM, Mercury. We are currently deploying our large-scale diffusion LLMs at Fortune 500 companies. Diffusion is the technology behind today’s image and video AI, and we’re making it the standard for LLMs as well.

Our team includes engineers from Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Microsoft AI, and OpenAI. Based in Palo Alto, CA, we are backed by A-list venture capitalists, including Menlo Ventures, Mayfield, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Snowflake Ventures, Databricks, and Innovation Endeavors, and by tech luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy, and Eric Schmidt.

If you are talented, innovative, and ambitious, come help us invent the future of AI.

We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.