AI Engineer in Residence, Summer 2026
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AI Engineer in Residence, Summer 2026 at Playfair: London, United Kingdom; Hybrid; Contract; Intern; IT. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: London, United Kingdom, Hybrid
- Role classification: IT, Data Science & ML, Contract, Intern
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-10.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
Spend your summer automating a venture capital fund from the inside
Most internships have you shadowing meetings and formatting slide decks. This one hands you a real problem: take a top-performing pre-seed fund and rebuild how it works with AI.
You'll join our investment team for 2-3 months this summer and ship agents, automations and internal tools that we actually use, every day, to find and back the best founders in Europe. You'll have direct access to partners, real data, real workflows, and the autonomy to decide what to build next.
About Playfair
We're a VC fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing: bringing discipline, diligence, dedication and depth of thought to an intentionally low volume of investments. Our pre-seed to Series A graduation rate is 78%, roughly 4x the industry average, and our fund performance sits in the top quartile against US and European benchmarks.
Since 2013, our founders have raised over $3bn of follow-on capital from the world's best funds, including Nory ($37m Series B, Kinnevik), Orca AI ($72.5m Series B, BPC), Protex AI ($36m Series B, Hedosophia) and StackOne ($20m Series A, GV). In Founders Choice anonymous polling, we were voted the 3rd best VC fund in Europe.
Our team is a mix of angel investors, operators, founders, engineers, lawyers, bankers, professional poker players and biochemists who share a deep passion for startups. We're now in the fourth year of investing from our $70m third fund.
What you'll do
- Build and ship the first versions of tools that help us source deals, qualify them faster, and support our portfolio companies at scale.
- Design agentic workflows (n8n, Claude, LLM APIs, whatever gets the job done) that remove the repetitive work from venture investing.
- Sit inside the investment team, see how a fund actually operates, and decide for yourself where AI can move the needle most.
- Demo what you've built to the whole team, get feedback fast, and iterate.
- Finish the summer with a portfolio of deployed, production tools used by professional investors, not a toy project.