Aemon

Aemon is a Y Combinator-backed company that the Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer. The company participated in the Winter 2026 batch of Y Combinator.

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.

Aemon was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 cohort, has a team of approximately 3 employees, and is actively operating.