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Gauntlet AI is an intensive 10-week fellowship for engineers ready to build real AI systems under pressure. The program combines 3 weeks of remote preparation with seven weeks in Austin, pushing top technical talent through production-grade projects, live feedback, and career-shaping outcomes.
- Production over theory: Fellows build AI systems meant to work beyond the demo stage.
- High standards, fast cycles: The program moves quickly, with real projects, technical pressure, and constant iteration.
- A serious talent pipeline: Many grads get an offer for a $200K AI engineering role which catapults them into the top tier talent zone.
If you want your work close to the frontier of AI talent, Gauntlet is where ambitious engineers are pushed to prove what they can build.
Prove you can build at the frontier of AI.
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Gauntlet Fellow @ Gauntlet AI
3 weeks remote, 7 weeks onsite in Austin, TX
80–100 hours/week for 10 weeks
Short-term contract
Hybrid location
full-time (90 hrs/week)
Key responsibilities
Develop and ship production-grade AI systems weekly, converting proven engineering performance into $200K+ career outcomes through Gauntlet's hiring partner network.
Description
Gauntlet is a fully funded, selective 10-week fellowship for experienced engineers who want to accelerate their careers by proving they can build and ship production-grade AI systems under real-world pressure. Fellows ship weekly, work alongside experienced operators, and get direct exposure to founders, CTOs, and hiring partners.
In our most recent cohort, challengers secured 300+ first-round interviews with hiring partners. Our goal is for 100% of program graduates to receive offers from our partner network, with a minimum starting compensation of $200,000.
The program runs 10 weeks: 3 weeks remote, followed by 7 weeks onsite in Austin, Texas. Fellows should expect a high-intensity schedule (80–100 hours/week) designed to maximize learning speed, signal, and career outcomes.
Outcomes:
- 10+ deployed AI applications shipped during the fellowship
- Access to Gauntlet’s alumni + hiring partner network
- Graduates receive $200,000+ job offers from hiring partners
If you build fast, ship under pressure, and want your output — not your resume — to determine your next role, apply now.
Candidate requirements
- 3+ years of professional engineering experience (or equivalent ability)
- Have independently designed, implemented, and deployed at least one working software system to production or active usersHigh responsiveness to feedback and extreme execution intensity
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
- Willing to commit to 80–100 hour weeks and relocate to Austin for 7 weeks
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An elite training ground for the next generation of AI builders
Gauntlet AI was created for engineers who want to accelerate faster than traditional career paths allow. Through an intensive curriculum focused on practical AI development, participants tackle real challenges, build advanced technical skills, and learn by doing.
The experience is designed to compress years of growth into a single, transformative program.
This is where high-potential engineers become exceptional AI builders.
Built for people who thrive under pressure
The Gauntlet is intentionally demanding. Participants commit 80–100 hours per week to learning, building, and solving increasingly complex AI challenges.
The intensity creates an environment where resilience, technical excellence, and rapid growth become the norm. Those who complete the program emerge with skills that few engineers develop through conventional experience.
Extraordinary growth requires extraordinary commitment.
Turn learning into a high-impact AI career
Gauntlet AI is designed with a clear outcome: helping exceptional engineers launch careers at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
Many participants who successfully complete the program receive an offer for a $200,000-per-year AI Engineering role in Austin, Texas, creating a direct path from training to professional impact.
Complete the challenge. Launch the career.
10
Weeks of training
500+
Apps built
20K+
Engineers applied
200K
Starting salary
Gauntlet AI's exclusive hiring partner
Gauntlet AI partners with Crossover to recruit the top 1% of AI-focused remote and hybrid professionals who can solve hard problems, move fast, and deliver from anywhere. Crossover’s hiring process looks beyond resumes, using structured screening, cognitive assessments, practical work samples, and in-person programs to identify candidates with the skill and judgment to make an immediate impact in tech.
For applicants, that means a clearer way to prove what you can do. For Gauntlet AI, it means finding people ready for the pace, standards, and scope of world-class work in AI.
Do career-defining work when you’re hired on Crossover.
How it works
Applying for a role? Here’s what to expect.
Crossover's skill assessment process combines innovative AI power with decades of human research, to take the guesswork, human bias, and pointless filters out of recruiting high-performing teams.
STEP 1
Chat-style screening interview.
STEP 2
Cognitive aptitude test.
STEP 3
Prove real-world job skills.
STEP 4
Interview with the hiring manager.
STEP 5
Pass proctored test.
STEP 6
Accept job offer.
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