Aemon
The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer
Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveB2B
What they do
Problem
Engineering teams struggle to find optimal solutions to complex technical and optimization problems within limited time and compute.
Solution
An autonomous AI research engineer that generates, tests, and iterates thousands of approaches to discover state-of-the-art solutions at machine speed.
Who it's for
Engineering and research teams (developers) tackling hard optimization and algorithmic problems.
Founders
Richard Zhou
Founder
Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). Waterloo CS dropout. International medalist in math & robotics.
Ray Xu
Founder
Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). UIUC CS dropout. Published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.
Open roles 1
Member of Technical Staff Intern 2027
Company timeline
- Founded2025
- YC batchWinter 2026
- StatusActive
- Team size3 people
- LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
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