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The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer
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.
Aemon is an applied research team that position themselves as an AI R&D engineer, aiming to discover optimal, production-ready solutions for clients' hardest technical problems by running self-accelerating research within clients' codebases and delivering validated breakthroughs.
Aemon defines a hard technical goal and success metrics with the client, then hardens the evaluation (datasets, production constraints, regression checks, trusted success criteria). An Aemon engineer connects to the client's codebase and research context, then runs self-accelerating research loops that study the frontier, run experiments, and ship validated improvements back to the team. The process culminates in production-ready breakthroughs delivered via ongoing live-running experiments that leverage prior wins, failures, anomalies, and constraints to continually improve the system.
Who it’s for: Organizations with hard technical problems seeking frontier AI/R&D breakthroughs and production-ready improvements, likely in technical or research-intensive industries that operate within complex codebases.
Mention of Y Combinator, two-week path from first call to breakthroughs, and a public demo/book-a-demo imply startup traction and active fundraising/accelerator association.
Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). Waterloo CS dropout. International medalist in math & robotics.
Co-founder at Aemon (YC W26). UIUC CS dropout. Published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.
Your next breakthrough. Found automatically.
Aemon is an AI R&D engineer that reads state-of-the-art research, autonomously generates and evolves thousands of approaches against a given evaluation, and guides user control to discover and validate better-than-state-of-the-art solutions for R&D problems. It is already used by R&D teams and demonstrated a new world record on the circle packing problem with minimal compute.
The First AI-Native AI Research Lab
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