AI Agent Engineer Intern (Claude, MCP, Evals)

Compensation: No equity

**Unpaid internship · 3 months · 5–10 hrs/week · Remote (US) · Academic credit available** **Zapp Studios AI Agent Lab — Fall 2026 Cohort** Zapp Studios builds growth marketing and software as one system for small businesses — restaurants, mobile pet care, e-commerce, home services. Real clients, real revenue, one small AI-native team. The AI Agent Lab is a 3-month, part-time program where you learn to build with Claude — Claude Code, the Anthropic API, MCP servers, agent evals — and then point those skills at an actual business problem for an actual client. You finish with agents you shipped, a portfolio you can show, and working command of tooling most people are still just reading threads about. **This is unpaid, and we'll be straight with you about it.** What you get is the training, real client work, the portfolio, and a written reference from someone who watched you build. If your school gives credit for an internship, we'll do the paperwork. **How the three months run:** - **Weeks 1–3 — Learn.** Guided ramp on Claude Code, context and prompt design, tool use, MCP, and evals. Structured, with checkpoints. - **Weeks 4–8 — Build.** You take a scoped, real problem from a Zapp client or product and build the thing that solves it. - **Weeks 9–12 — Ship.** Deploy it, measure it, demo it. It goes in your portfolio. **In this track you'll:** - Build agents that do real work — one that reads a supplier invoice and files every line against a real ingredient, one that drafts and QAs client campaign copy, one that watches a booking funnel and flags what broke - Write the tool definitions, MCP servers, and context plumbing that make an agent reliable instead of a demo - Build evals, because "it worked when I tried it" is not shipping - Take one agent all the way into a live client workflow and watch a real person use it **You probably:** - Write Python or TypeScript and can read an API doc without hand-holding - Have built something with an LLM already — a bot, a script, a hack — and have opinions about why it was flaky - Have high agency and are comfortable when the problem is vague - Care that the thing works for the business, not that it's clever **Nice to have:** MCP, retrieval/RAG, eval harnesses, Claude Code as a daily driver, or having shipped anything to real users. **Everyone in the Lab gets:** weekly working sessions with the founder, one real shipped project, and a written reference. A Claude subscription is not included: from Week 2 you'll need your own, the $20 plan to start, and be prepared to upgrade later in the program. 5–10 hours a week, remote, async-friendly, on your own schedule. Cohort runs Sep 14 – Dec 11, 2026. Applications close Sep 7. **To apply:** in your application note, do two things — (1) link the single most impressive thing you've built, grown, designed, or sold, with one paragraph on what it does and what was hard about it; (2) confirm that unpaid, 5–10 hrs/week, Sep 14 – Dec 11 works for your schedule. Applications without a link get read last.