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About the Role

Ascendance Foundry (AF) is recruiting for its W27 (January–April 2027) Graduate Fellowship, a paid, four-month placement with an industry client, mentorship from industry experts, and training in AI fundamentals and practical skills. This posting is for the Forward-Deployed Engineering (FDE) track, where Fellows build, deploy, and maintain AI solutions embedded within a client's engineering team. AF places Fellows directly inside a client's team to solve a mission-critical problem over a four-month term. As a Forward-Deployed Engineering Fellow, you'll build, deploy, and maintain AI solutions embedded with a client's engineering team, shipping real features and automations.

Responsibilities

Support coding, testing, and debugging of application features while assisting with research, documentation, and deployment in an agile environment.
Assist with data collection, cleaning, and analysis, while supporting model and visualization development using statistical and machine learning techniques.
Support market research, company analyses, financial evaluations, deck and proposal preparation, and client workshop organization.

Requirements

Finishing (or recently finished) a Master's or PhD: This is your final year, and you're ready to move straight into industry after the fellowship, not back into academia.
Comfortable with some programming (Python or similar): You don't need to be a professional software engineer, but you can wrangle data and ship something that runs.
Genuinely curious: You dig into why a result looks the way it does.
High agency: You take ownership of ambiguous problems rather than waiting to be told the next step.
Ready to work directly with a client team in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven setting.

Skills

AI fundamentals
AI practical skills
AI-assisted software development
design
build
test
improve applications and automations
strong engineering fundamentals
Customer Success
Product Management
Identifying high-value problems
translating customer needs into technical solutions
managing stakeholders
driving adoption
Infrastructure
DevOps
Security
Cloud infrastructure
CI/CD
enterprise integrations
cybersecurity
data privacy
Python
wrangle data
ship something that runs
Custom Application Development
Analytics & Data Science
Strategy & Management Consulting
coding
testing
debugging
research
documentation
deployment
agile environment
data collection
data cleaning
data analysis
model development
visualization development
statistical techniques
machine learning techniques
market research
company analyses
financial evaluations
deck preparation
proposal preparation
client workshop organization

Location

client site

Work Type

paid placement
full-time offer potential

Experience Level

Graduate Fellowship

Education Level

Master's degree
PhD

Salary/Compensations

$15,000 for the 4-month term

Benefits

Mentorship from industry experts
Training in AI fundamentals and practical skills
Access to weekly expert seminars
Access to the annual conference
Optional part-time consulting opportunities at higher rates for top alumni

About the Company

Ascendance Foundry (AF) is recruiting for its W27 (January–April 2027) Graduate Fellowship.
AF places Fellows directly inside a client's team to solve a mission-critical problem over a four-month term.
As part of the Ascendance Foundry alumni network, you maintain access to weekly expert seminars and the annual conference.
Optional part-time consulting opportunities at higher rates are offered to top alumni to mentor students and support future projects.