AI Engineering Intern, Bali based

Monday morning, the reset. What did you ship. What broke. What are you building this week. Everything you built last week is worthless. It keeps you honest. It keeps you fast.

You are reading this from the most expensive version of the old map. San Francisco still runs on the belief that a company takes three hundred people and an office tower to start. It does not anymore — a company now costs twelve people and a toolchain.

My name is Julien Uhlig. Thirty years building companies — New York, London, Tokyo, the Valley — and then it stopped mattering where I did it, so I run it from Canggu. Entrade and Zero-X among them. Over $150M raised and deployed. The campus is 4,000 sqm, and I am on it every day. This is EX EPIC Academy.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

Universities teach the world as it was four years ago. You will do what they are not teaching: fully agentic workflows, systems that plan, execute, and correct themselves. Then you point them at problems costing someone money today. Not coursework. Live systems for live companies.

You pick where yours run:

Zero-X — thermochemical conversion, distributed energy.
Seraph Group — decentralised bioproduction: AI, robotics, and synthetic biology on one platform.
EXFI — FCA-authorised regulated payments. AI inside money, where the rules are hard.
Gemino AI — the infrastructure the rest of the group runs on.

The honest part: the hours are long, the reset is brutal, and most of what you make in your first weeks gets thrown away. That is the point.

WHO THIS IS FOR

You hold a degree. Any field. It is proof you finished something hard, not proof you know anything current.

You will write code every day. Agents amplify people who can code; they do not replace them. If you have not written much yet, you will get there, because a live problem is on your desk in week one and nothing teaches faster.

You arrive with a problem and a first attempt at it. Six months, on-site. Not remote, not hybrid, not a three-month stint.

WHERE YOU DO IT

I am onsite. So is the management team. Every day. No org chart between you and the founder. What Canggu buys is a room where the people who run the companies are physically present every day, and nothing else is competing for them.

I do not lecture. One-hour calls with an agenda, and I am at the desk next to yours. You watch a week from inside the room. You see what happens when something breaks. There is no curriculum for that.

WHAT WE COVER

Six months residential in Canggu. Housing, workstation, office space, meeting rooms. The full AI toolchain, tokens paid by the group.

C22B internship visa — we sponsor it and we pay for it. Indonesian immigration law prohibits paying foreign interns, and we do not work around that. Flights and food are yours. If that is a dealbreaker, better you know now.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER

Seventeen interns have moved into full-time roles across the group — Bali, Spain, Germany.

We help you publish what you shipped. Distribution, not a certificate.

FOUND WHILE YOU TRAIN

Bring an idea and we fund it through grants and the EX Venture Network. You can found while you train.

THE RESEARCH TRACK

The strongest researchers continue into a funded PhD with Monash University in Melbourne, one of 35 active collaborations alongside TU Munich, the Fraunhofer Institute, and the German Aerospace Center.

THE GROUP

You live with your cohort, work with them daily, and stay in the group after the six months end. It is our hiring pool, our co-founder market, and our investor network. The network is yours for life.

REQUIREMENTS

• A degree, any field
• You have written Python or equivalent, and you will write it every day
• You arrive with a problem and a first attempt at it
• Six months, on-site

HOW TO APPLY

The work is the application. Send a repo, a demo, anything that runs. Not a CV. We read everything and we choose slowly. If we believe you, we talk. If we talk, we decide together whether this fits.

You get a seat, and systems in production with your name on them. Everyone has a degree. Almost nobody has proof. Maybe we have been looking for you.