What are the responsibilities and job description for the People & Operations Intern position at Simular?
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We're looking for a People & Operations Intern to help build how Simular works as a company; not just behind a desk, but out in the world. You'll support hiring, onboarding, IT compliance, office management, and employee experience, while also representing Simular at hackathons, career fairs, and community events.
This is a great role if you want to see how an early-stage AI company actually runs, from the inside out. This role requires a full-time commitment.
What You'll Do
Hiring & Talent Engineering
We're looking for a People & Operations Intern to help build how Simular works as a company; not just behind a desk, but out in the world. You'll support hiring, onboarding, IT compliance, office management, and employee experience, while also representing Simular at hackathons, career fairs, and community events.
This is a great role if you want to see how an early-stage AI company actually runs, from the inside out. This role requires a full-time commitment.
What You'll Do
Hiring & Talent Engineering
- Support the full hiring pipeline: post roles, screen resumes, coordinate interviews, follow up with candidates
- Help with onboarding new hires: equipment, accounts, welcome materials, first-week logistics
- Represent Simular at career fairs, university events, and recruiting meetups
- Help organize and attend hackathons, tech meetups, and industry events
- Coordinate team events, offsites, and internal culture moments
- Be a face of Simular at external events: you'll meet candidates, partners, and community members in person
- Help find and manage office spaces
- Assist with IT compliance: device management, security policies, access controls
- Coordinate with external vendors: insurance, IT providers, and other service partners
- Support employment compliance across multiple jurisdictions: contracts, visa applications, labor law requirements
- Maintain employee records and keep things organized
- Identify repetitive ops workflows and help automate them using AI tools, no-code platforms, or scripts
- Build and maintain internal automations: onboarding checklists, compliance reminders, candidate pipeline tracking
- Develop your AI literacy by working daily with AI agents and LLMs as part of how we operate
- Help the team stay on the frontier: test new AI tools, share what works, and document best practices
- You're organized, detail-oriented, and can juggle multiple tasks without dropping balls
- You communicate clearly and professionally
- You're proactive; you see something that needs doing and you do it
- You're curious about AI and eager to build real AI literacy, not just use LLMs, but understand how AI tools can transform workflows
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and figuring things out on your own
- You're a people person who's energized by events and face-to-face interactions
- You care about building a great workplace, not just running one
- Prior internship in HR, people ops, or startup environments
- Experience organizing events, clubs, or student organizations