--- title: 'Intern — Open Application (Los Altos) at Cheiron' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/intern-open-application-los-altos-cheiron-los-altos-0jnf45bq2nyd' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-02' --- # Intern — Open Application (Los Altos) at Cheiron - **Company:** Cheiron - **Location:** Los Altos, CA - **Employment:** internship - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cheiron/7465f7b7-6a1a-4231-8755-f755ad611c42 ## Job description Los Altos, CA · Internship · Semester/quarter or summer · Fully in-person Company Overview In July 2026, Cheiron announced an $8 million seed round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing total funding to $13 million to date, with the backing and strategic support of industry veterans including Moderna co-founder and MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, former Pfizer Chief Medical Officer Freda Lewis-Hall, Chai Discovery co-founder and CEO Josh Meier, former Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan, and former Apple AI chief John Giannandrea. Cheiron is building the first AI-native operating system designed to represent an entire drug program as a single connected system. The company's platform helps biopharma teams represent, reason over, and stress-test the full state of a drug development program, including the claims, evidence, assumptions, risks, decisions, and commitments that determine whether a therapy advances. In less than six months since launch, Cheiron has been adopted by tens of thousands of biopharma professionals and deployed by major drug developers, and is already used by 7 of Korea's top 10 biopharma companies. Cheiron is expanding into pharmaceutical CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls) teams. CMC governs how a drug is made, tested, and kept consistent across its entire commercial life. The work involves hundreds of regulatory commitments, post-approval changes, and cross-market submissions. Today it runs on documents, spreadsheets, and institutional memory. Cheiron augments manual workflows with a CMC regulatory-specific intelligence and reasoning layer. Founded in 2024 by Stanford-trained AI researchers. The team includes leaders with combined decades of experience across pharma and biotech. Headquartered in Los Altos, California. We are building and deploying the product now with rapid expansion into global markets. ## About the Role Want to contribute to Cheiron, but don’t see your strengths reflected in our current openings? Tell us what we’re missing. Our General Internship is for applicants who can make a meaningful contribution outside the roles listed on our careers page. You might bring expertise in an area we haven’t hired for yet, combine skills across disciplines, or see an important problem you’re particularly well equipped to solve. We’re looking for a clear proposal: what role you could serve, why Cheiron needs it, and what you could accomplish during your internship. If there’s a strong fit, we’ll work with you to define a focused scope with concrete deliverables. ## What You’ll Do - Identify a specific problem or opportunity where your skills can help Cheiron. - Work with the relevant team to define priorities, deliverables, and measures of success. - Own a project from initial investigation through execution and handoff. - Seek feedback, communicate progress clearly, and adapt as you learn. - Deliver work that the team can use and build on after your internship. ## What We’re Looking For - Relevant skills demonstrated through projects, research, previous work, or other substantive experience. - A thoughtful understanding of Cheiron and a convincing case for your proposed contribution. - Evidence of personal ownership: you can explain what you did, the decisions you made, and the results. - Initiative, sound judgment, and the ability to make progress on an unfamiliar or loosely defined problem. - Clear communication and a willingness to work closely with people across disciplines. We welcome applicants from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds. Technical expertise is relevant where your proposed work requires it; there is no single required major or skill set. ## Compensation $35–$55 per hour. Exact compensation within the range depends on demonstrated expertise, relevant experience, and the time the student can commit. Location & Commitment This internship is based in our Los Altos, CA office and requires fully in-person work. Semester or quarter interns must be available for at least 20 hours per week; summer interns should be available full time. Relocation support may be available on a case-by-case basis. We consider candidates with different immigration and work-authorization circumstances where lawful employment is possible. Interview Process The interview process will be tailored to your proposed contribution and may include a discussion of past work, a practical exercise, and conversations with the relevant team. ## Equal Opportunity & Accommodation Cheiron is an equal-opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. ## About Cheiron ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Cheiron is building the AI-native operating system for drug development, unifying clinical, regulatory, scientific, and competitive workflows on a single intelligence layer. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage – $4M raised in September 2025) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States (with offices in South Korea and India) - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Minseok Bae (CEO), Harshit Gupta (Co-Founder), Jason Park (Co-Founder & CPO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered software for biopharma R&D, clinical development, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, and commercial strategy. - **Target customers**: B2B – biopharma companies, drug developers, and life science teams (enterprise). - **Mission/purpose**: To provide a unified evidence-to-decision platform where biopharma professionals can execute end-to-end workflows with traceable, verifiable AI outputs. ## Products & Services - **Cheiron AI Operating System**: A SaaS platform that integrates peer-reviewed literature, clinical trial data, regulatory filings, safety data, and patents into a single Lifesciences Knowledge Graph. Workflow-native AI agents produce decision-ready outputs (competitive landscapes, regulatory comparisons, target product profiles, safety signal write-ups) that are traceable to source evidence. Supports use cases across R&D, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, CMC, Quality, Pharmacovigilance, and Commercial. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $4.0M (Seed round led by SK Networks on September 4, 2025, with three investors). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor SK Networks; other investors undisclosed. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 56.2% YoY to ~20 employees (as of mid-2026). LinkedIn followers surged 163.5% in the past year. Monthly website traffic grew 235% (though starting from a low base). Actively used by professionals from leading biopharma organizations (specific names not publicly listed). ## Competitive Advantages - **Integrated Lifesciences Knowledge Graph**: Cheiron structures cross-domain evidence (literature, trials, regulations, safety, patents) into a single curated substrate, allowing AI agents to produce outputs that are grounded, traceable, and verifiable. - **End-to-end workflow coverage**: Unlike point-solution search tools, Cheiron addresses the full span of drug program deliverables — from research and drafting to review and regulatory submission prep. - **Evidence-linked verifiability**: Every answer is linked to its exact source passage, enabling users to pressure-test claims against authoritative evidence before submission to regulators or medical reviewers. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling from early traction to enterprise deployments. Deepening product capabilities for clinical development, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, and commercial workflows. Hiring for key roles (Product Manager, Market Access/HÉOR Specialists, Commercial Specialists) to expand into Boston and Palo Alto. - **Direction for growth**: Building the operating layer for drug programs across biopharma, moving beyond search into full workflow automation while maintaining traceability. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Early-stage, fast-shipping environment with “comfort with ambiguity, intensity, and the rhythm” of a startup. The team values systems thinking, pragmatic product decisions, and deep pharma domain expertise. - **Work policy**: On-site presence expected (Palo Alto & Boston) based on current job postings. - **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Opportunity to define how AI agents reason over clinical and regulatory evidence; work directly with pharma users (clinicians, regulatory, medical affairs, commercial teams); own 0→1 product development on high-impact health-tech problems. Strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration between domain experts and engineering. - **Talent profile**: Team includes alumni from Stanford AI Lab, IIT Bombay, NYU Courant, and prior experience at pharma tech companies. Departments span technical (32%), operations (16%), product (8%), and more. ## Sources 1. [cheiron.bio](https://www.cheiron.bio/) 2. [LinkedIn – Cheiron](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cheiron-bio) 3. [Cheiron Framer Career Site](https://cheiron.framer.ai/) 4. [BeeBee – Cheiron Jobs](https://bebee.com/us/companies/cheiron) 5. 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