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 roles
Cognitive Simulation Researcher

15–25 hrs / week initially · path to full-time
Equity-first · approximately 0.5%

Behavioral Science & Validation Researcher

15–25 hrs / week initially · path to full-time
Equity-first · approximately 0.5%

Engineering

3 open roles
Founding ML Engineer

20+ hrs / week
Equity-based · approximately 1.0%

Founding Product Engineer

Part-time / substantial commitment
Equity-based · approximately 1.0%

Founding Simulation Engineer

20+ hrs / week
Equity-based · approximately 1.0%

Commercial

1 open role
Sales Executive

Flexible · high ownership
Commission-based · no fixed salary

Growth

1 open role
Founding Growth & Marketing Lead

20+ 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.