Careers
Open roles
Join Aetherya's early team as we build a cognitive simulation platform. We're looking for researchers, engineers and commercial operators who want meaningful ownership in shaping a new software category.
7 open roles
We are intentionally building a small team and expect to hire only a handful of exceptional people across these roles.
Research
2 open roles15–25 hrs / week initially · path to full-time
Equity-first · approximately 0.5%
15–25 hrs / week initially · path to full-time
Equity-first · approximately 0.5%
Engineering
3 open roles20+ hrs / week
Equity-based · approximately 1.0%
Part-time / substantial commitment
Equity-based · approximately 1.0%
20+ hrs / week
Equity-based · approximately 1.0%
Commercial
1 open roleFlexible · high ownership
Commission-based · no fixed salary
Growth
1 open role20+ hrs / week
Equity-based · 0.5%–1.5%
About Aetherya
Aetherya is a frontier cognitive simulation lab building computational models of human perception, behavior and decision-making.
Our research focuses on synthetic humans: persistent, behaviorally grounded agents capable of interpreting information, experiencing uncertainty, forming objections, changing beliefs and making decisions within simulated environments.
We combine foundation models with cognitive architectures, behavioral dynamics, population grounding and multi-agent simulation to study how individuals and groups react before real-world exposure.
Aetherya’s technology is used to simulate products, advertisements, websites, messages and strategic decisions across diverse synthetic populations.
Our objective is to establish cognitive simulation as a new research and software category, moving beyond static personas, surveys and isolated LLM responses toward dynamic, measurable models of human behavior.