Forward Deployed Engineer Intern (Full-Stack + AI)

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:** - Sit close to one real business owner and build what their problem actually needs — the booking flow, the internal dashboard, the ordering page, the thing that replaces their spreadsheet - Ship full-stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, deployed on Vercel - Use Claude Code as your daily driver and find out first-hand what it's genuinely good and bad at - Demo your work to the owner, take the feedback, ship again **You probably:** - Are comfortable with TypeScript/React and can pick up a new stack fast - Have shipped something real — a side project, a hackathon, freelance work. We care more about what you've built than your GPA - Have high agency and thrive in ambiguity - Care about the business result, not just the code **Nice to have:** Supabase/Postgres, Next.js App Router, Stripe, or having run your own thing. **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.