About the Position

Tech Founder Associate Intern

ENGINEERING & SCIENCE - INTERNSHIP - MILAN / HYBRID

Work alongside our CIO and Head of Simulations for six months and take on a meaningful slice of the technical work that shapes Rilemo, in one of four tracks.

About Rilemo

Rilemo is a MedTech startup building a portable diagnostic imaging device that works wherever the patient is, from ambulances to home care. By combining non-ionising electromagnetic imaging with AI, we want to decentralise diagnostics and bring high-quality medical imaging beyond the hospital walls, so that diagnosis becomes more timely, inclusive and accessible for everyone.

Responsibilities

Whatever the track, you work in a young team with strong autonomy and full ownership of your projects, with a light check-in each day. You can also spot a pain point or propose a direction yourself, get a quick go-ahead from the CIO, and build it. The work is set up so you can move without waiting on heavy review. Every few days you demo what you have built, and you document it cleanly so the team can pick it up after you. If a direction turns out to be a poor fit, you flag it, hand it back and move to the next one.

Requirements

A student in Computer Science, Physics or a related field with strong fundamentals in your area of study.
Autonomy and good judgment: You work with light supervision, set a sensible bar for when something is done, and raise blockers crisply.
AI coding agents as your default: You have enough coding foundation to direct the tools well and ship something that works.
MVP-minded: You ship the 80% fast and don't gold-plate work that doesn't need it.
Fast context-ramping: You get up to speed on a new area quickly and start being useful without a full onboarding.
A genuine tech enthusiast: You keep up with the field on your own initiative.
Fluent English: Written and spoken.

Nice to Have

The modern AI-agent stack: Claude Code and Codex, MCP, LLM APIs, prompt engineering, custom skills or hooks
Scientific computing, numerical methods or electromagnetic simulation
Deep learning or computer vision, with comfort reading and modifying model code
Analytical modeling and applied mathematics, especially in wave physics or scattering theory
The scientific Python stack (NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch)
Electromagnetic simulation tools such as Sim4Life, openEMS or similar
Reading academic papers and implementing the methods they describe
A public portfolio of shipped side projects

We Offer

€700 per month: A paid internship.
Your work ships and gets used: What you build lands in the team's real workflow, and you see the difference it makes.
Close mentorship: From the CIO and the Head of Simulations.
Our AI-agent stack: Hands-on experience with Claude Code, with API keys provided.
A workspace with other founders: At the B4i co-working space at Centro Leoni, Milan.
A real medical device: First-hand experience helping build an AI-powered portable medical device in a startup.

About the Company

The internship can also be set up as a university (curricular) internship, if your university offers one.

Hiring Process

CV and portfolio screening
Intro call
Technical chat
Onboarding

If any part of this resonates, apply even if you don't tick every box. We care more about sharp, self-directed builders than perfect résumés.

Apply for this Role

Tell us who you are and attach your CV. We read every application.

Duration: 6 months

Start: As soon as possible

Pay: €700 / month

Location: Milan / Hybrid

Tracks: Software Operator, Agent Builder, Simulation Engineer, Modeling Scientist

Share the projects you are proudest of, links to repositories, papers, demos or anything you shipped. Explain why this role interests you and anything else you want to tell us. Keep your application for future roles at Rilemo for up to 24 months.

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Tech Founder Associate Intern

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