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The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer

W26·Winter 2026·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 3·Founded 2025
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About

Aemon is the first autonomous research engineer that delivers state-of-the-art solutions to your engineering problems. It generates, tests, and evolves thousands of approaches at machine speed to discover optimal solutions beyond what human experts can find. Aemon already set a new world record on an NP-hard math optimization problem with <$10 of compute, beating the previous record set by Google DeepMind in 2025. Ray and Richard (twin brothers) dropped out of UWaterloo and UIUC to build Aemon. They published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.

Founders

  • Richard Zhou· Founder

    Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). Waterloo CS dropout. International medalist in math & robotics.

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  • Ray Xu· Founder

    Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). UIUC CS dropout. Published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.

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