The board
- Where
- Los Altos
- Posted
- Sep 15
Los Altos, CA · Product · 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.
What you'd do
- 45-minute technical screen focused on how you break down problems, structure requirements, and reason about architecture and tradeoffs.
- One-day onsite in Los Altos with a hands-on case interview: decompose a brief, scope a build, and write a spec under realistic constraints.
What they want
- A strong technical foundation: you can read a codebase, reason about system architecture, and ground a spec in what already exists. CS, engineering, or a related technical degree.
- Experience producing structured technical documents that someone else could build from: design docs, specs, architecture proposals, research papers, or detailed project writeups.
- Clear personal ownership of the work: you can explain what you defined, the decisions you made about scope and tradeoffs, and what you would improve.
- Fluency with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent. You use them as a natural part of how you work.
- Initiative, sound judgment, and comfort working through ambiguous problems in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience with healthcare, life sciences, regulated industries, or AI-native products is a plus but not required.
About Cheiron · Product
We are looking for a Technical Product Management Intern to turn product concepts into engineering-ready specs, working across product, life sciences, and engineering. Concepts arrive with the “what” and “why” framed. You own the “how, specifically”: how each component fits the existing architecture, what to extend, what to leave alone, and what the build looks like on paper before a line of code is written. CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls) is a specialized domain with its own regu…