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AI fellowships, research residencies and funded programs

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45 programs
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Heron AI Security Research Fellowship

Heron Security

3 months, Sep-Nov 2026, 8-30 hours/week, remote-first cybersecurity and frontier AI projects

Deadline
2026-07-08
Location
Remote-first; hubs in London, Tel Aviv, San Francisco
Residencies open

Singapore AI Safety Fellowship

AI Safety Singapore

3-month full-time residential fellowship on technical AI safety and governance, with stipend, housing, travel, compute and mentorship

Deadline
2026-07-10
Location
Singapore
Fellowships open

GovAI Winter Fellowships 2027

GovAI

3-month AI governance fellowship in DC or London, research and applied tracks

Deadline
2026-07-12
Location
Washington DC or London UK
Fellowships open

PIBBSS Winter Fellowship 2026-2027

PIBBSS

~3-month full-time interdisciplinary AI safety research with mentor matching

Deadline
2026-07-20
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Fellowships open

Horizon AI Rapid Response Fellowship

Horizon Institute for Public Service

One-year placement in US federal offices on AI security and policy

Deadline
2026-07-22
Location
Washington DC mostly; limited remote/other city options
Fellowships open

Horizon AI for Science Fellowship

Horizon Institute for Public Service

9-12 months applying frontier AI to DOE national lab science projects; remote or in-person with quarterly lab travel

Deadline
2026-07-31
Location
U.S. DOE national labs; remote or on-site
Fellowships open

IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship

Institute for Human Sciences

3-month Vienna research fellowship on digital humanism, AI governance, human rights, and technology-society questions

Deadline
2026-09-21
Location
Vienna, Austria
Fellowships open

Claude Corps Fellowship

Anthropic / CodePath / Social Finance

12-month paid fellowship placing early-career AI-skilled talent inside mission-driven nonprofits using Claude

Deadline
2026-07-17 for Cohort 1; rolling for January/August 2027 cohorts
Location
United States host nonprofits
Fellowships open

Globethics Emerging Leaders in Ethical AI Governance Fellowship

Globethics

Ethical AI governance fellowship for early-career professionals in academia, government, civil society, and private sector

Deadline
2026 fellowship selected; open track active
Location
Geneva, Switzerland / online open track
Fellowships open

Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship

Google for Education

Faculty fellowship for AI in teaching, research, responsible AI, assessment, policy, and student outcomes

Deadline
not listed on official page
Location
Global / higher education institutions
Residencies open

Memories.ai Research Fellowship Summer 2026

Memories.ai

12-week visual AI research fellowship on large visual memory models, multimodal systems, and video data infrastructure

Deadline
rolling; program June-August 2026
Location
Remote-friendly; optional in-person collaboration
Fellowships open

RAND CAST Fellowship

RAND Corporation

6+ month full/part-time fellowship at RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology, reviewed quarterly

Deadline
2026-08-01 next quarterly review
Location
US remote/DC/SF/Pittsburgh or UK
Fellowships open

10a Labs Red Teaming Fellowship

10a Labs

Hands-on AI safety, security, and adversarial testing fellowship for frontier models and AI-enabled systems

Deadline
not listed; flexible start/end dates
Location
Washington DC / listed roles vary
Fellowships open

Anthropic Fellows Program, AI Safety

Anthropic

4 months full-time empirical AI safety research with Anthropic mentorship, shared Berkeley or London workspace, stipend and compute budget

Deadline
rolling; cohorts starting July 2026 and beyond
Location
Berkeley CA or London UK
Fellowships open

DoorDash AI Research Fellowship

DoorDash

3-month program extendable to 6 months for applied ML and AI research in local commerce

Deadline
not listed; posting open for Summer/Fall 2026 cohorts
Location
San Francisco CA
Fellowships open

ERA:AI Fellowship

ERA:AI

10-week fully funded Cambridge fellowship for technical AI safety, governance, and technical governance research

Deadline
current cohort July 6-Sep 11, 2026
Location
Cambridge UK
Fellowships open

Intuition Machines AI/ML Research Fellow

Intuition Machines

6 or 12 month AI/ML fellowship focused on high-risk research and online security applications

Deadline
2026-04-01 / 2026-09-01; rolling thereafter
Location
Remote / varies
Residencies open

Xaira Therapeutics AI in Residence

Xaira Therapeutics

6-12 month frontier ML and drug discovery residency with rolling Summer/Fall 2026 intakes

Deadline
rolling
Location
South San Francisco or Seattle office
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Perplexity Research Residency / Research Roles

Perplexity AI

Research environment spanning realtime multimodal assistants and open web agents; residency listed on research page

Deadline
not listed; monitor residency/careers
Location
NYC, Palo Alto, San Francisco and other listed roles
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Cooperative AI Research Fellowship

Cooperative AI Foundation

3-month full-time in-person cooperative AI and multi-agent safety research fellowship with mentorship and compute

Deadline
2025-10-01 for 2026 cohort (closed)
Location
Cape Town South Africa
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Vals AI Fellowship

Vals AI

3-6 months on AI evaluation research and benchmark development, remote or San Francisco

Deadline
2026-06-30 (passed)
Location
Remote or San Francisco
Fellowships closed

Two Sigma PhD Fellowship 2026

Two Sigma

PhD fellowship for quantitative finance, econometrics, market microstructure, high-frequency econometrics, and related STEM research

Deadline
2025-09-26
Location
US accredited university; online application
Fellowships closed

Jump Trading Fellowship Program 2026-2027

Jump Trading

University-nominated PhD research fellowship in mathematics/statistics, AI/ML, physics, and computer science

Deadline
2025-10-31
Location
US university; optional Jump office visit, no fixed city stated
Fellowships closed

Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship 2026/2027

Jane Street

PhD research fellowship supporting quantitative fields relevant to rigorous quantitative trading research

Deadline
2025-11-21
Location
Home institution; optional Jane Street office visit
Fellowships closed

IMC PhD Fellowship

IMC Trading

Quantitative research fellowship with education funding, conference travel, and finalist support

Deadline
2026-03-15
Location
Chicago finalist event / global research
Fellowships closed

Future Impact Group Fellowship

Future Impact Group

12-week part-time remote fellowship as research associate on AI governance, technical AI safety, digital sentience projects

Deadline
2025 cycle closed
Location
Remote-first
Fellowships closed

XLab Summer Research Fellowship

University of Chicago XLab

10-week in-person research fellowship at University of Chicago for AI safety/security and nuclear security

Deadline
2026-03-15 (closed)
Location
Chicago IL
Fellowships closed

Astra Fellowship - Empirical Stream

Constellation Institute

5-month fully funded in-person AI safety program on model evaluations, scalable oversight, AI control and alignment

Deadline
2026-05-03 (closed); EOI for next cohort
Location
Berkeley CA
Fellowships closed

BASE Fellowship

BASE Research

13-week part-time remote AI safety/security/governance fellowship for Black researchers, practitioners and leaders

Deadline
Fall 2026 applications closed
Location
Remote
Fellowships closed

CIP Research Fellowship

Collective Intelligence Project

6-month remote research fellowship using AI public-values, deliberation, and evaluation datasets

Deadline
2026-05-15 (closed)
Location
Remote
Fellowships closed

CLR Summer Research Fellowship

Center on Long-Term Risk

Two-month London fellowship on long-term risk/s-risk research, often supporting research career transition

Deadline
2026-03-22 (closed); 2027 notification available
Location
London UK
Fellowships closed

CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship

Computing Research Association

12-month responsible and trustworthy AI fellowship with field school, convenings, mentoring, and interdisciplinary research

Deadline
2026-2027 cohort closed
Location
U.S.; field school in Cambridge MA plus virtual convenings
Fellowships closed

Encode AI for Science Fellowship

Encode / University of Cambridge

One-year AI for science fellowship placing AI/ML researchers and engineers into UK science labs

Deadline
2026-03-28 (closed)
Location
United Kingdom
Fellowships closed

Global Majority AI Fellowship

Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC

AI governance fellowship supporting Global South civil society experts at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance

Deadline
2026-05-18 (closed)
Location
Geneva, Switzerland
Fellowships closed

IAPS AI Policy Fellowship

Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

Fully funded 3-month AI policy fellowship for professionals from varied backgrounds; DC or remote

Deadline
closed for 2026
Location
DC or remote
Fellowships closed

Kempner AI Fellows Program

Kempner Institute at Harvard University

Full-time AI/ML fellowship on foundation models, agentic workflows, NeuroAI, computational biology, and AI for science

Deadline
2026-06-01 (closed); late rolling review possible if positions remain
Location
Allston, MA
Fellowships closed

MATS Research Fellowship

MATS Program

10-week AI alignment and security research fellowship in Berkeley and London, with possible 6-12 month extension

Deadline
Autumn 2026 applications closed June 7
Location
Berkeley CA and London UK
Residencies closed

OpenAI Residency

OpenAI

6-month full-time residency for builders and early researchers to work with OpenAI research teams

Deadline
2026 applications closed
Location
San Francisco, CA
Fellowships closed

PRISM AI Safety Research Fellowship

PRISM Research

16-week remote AI safety research fellowship producing peer-reviewed work in interpretability, governance, evaluation and alignment

Deadline
2026-05-25 (closed)
Location
Remote
Residencies closed

Villa Albertine Arts in the Age of AI Residency

Villa Albertine

Two-month U.S. exploratory residency for artists, intellectuals, and cultural professionals working on AI-related projects

Deadline
2026-01-29 (closed)
Location
United States, chosen city/territory
Fellowships closed

OpenAI Safety Fellowship

OpenAI

Sep 14 2026-Feb 5 2027 external safety/alignment research program with mentorship and compute

Deadline
2026-05-03 (closed)
Location
Berkeley CA preferred; remote possible
Fellowships closed

Pivotal AI Safety Research Fellowship

Pivotal Research

9 weeks in London with possible 6-month extension for high-impact AI safety research

Deadline
current applications closed
Location
London UK