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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
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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
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CHT Emerging Voices in AI and Society Fellowship
Center for Humane Technology
6-month remote fellowship producing public research/essays/op-eds on AI and society
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GovAI Winter Fellowships 2027
GovAI
3-month AI governance fellowship in DC or London, research and applied tracks
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AI Security Bootcamp London 2026
AI Security Bootcamp
7-day fully funded in-person program for security professionals securing emerging/frontier AI systems
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FutureFocus Sydney - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day trading and research early-career program
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PIBBSS Winter Fellowship 2026-2027
PIBBSS
~3-month full-time interdisciplinary AI safety research with mentor matching
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Horizon AI Rapid Response Fellowship
Horizon Institute for Public Service
One-year placement in US federal offices on AI security and policy
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Longview Digital Minds Career Development Fellowships
Future Impact Group / Longview Philanthropy
Remote career-development funding for digital minds, AI sentience, AI welfare and related research/policy/practice
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2026 Shanghai PhD QuantFocus
Optiver
Three-day program covering noisy-market data analysis, statistical modelling, signal extraction, market making and quantitative decision-making
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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
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Google DeepMind Multi-Agent AI Safety Research Funding Call
Google DeepMind
Funding call for multi-agent safety research proposals with partners
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IWM Digital Humanism Fellowship
Institute for Human Sciences
3-month Vienna research fellowship on digital humanism, AI governance, human rights, and technology-society questions
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Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs Program - UC San Diego
UC San Diego
Two-year postdoctoral fellowship applying AI techniques to engineering, mathematical, and natural sciences
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G-Research Monthly Grant for Early Career Researchers
G-Research
Monthly quantitative-research grant for conference travel childcare equipment and research expenses
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Agentic Engineering Grants
Superteam
Build and ship a Solana product using AI coding tools; adjacent agent-building grant, not a trading contest
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FutureFocus Singapore - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day trading and research early-career program
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G-Research Graduate Scholarships 2026-2027
G-Research / University of Oxford Mathematical Institute
Fully funded four-year DPhil scholarship in machine learning with quantitative-research mentorship
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Career Kickstarter Singapore - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day program with options theory, trading simulations, algorithm building/testing, trading games and quantitative-research exposure
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Citadel Conference Travel Grant
Citadel
Conference participation support for quantitative students in mathematics, computer science, physics, statistics, or related fields
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Claude Corps Fellowship
Anthropic / CodePath / Social Finance
12-month paid fellowship placing early-career AI-skilled talent inside mission-driven nonprofits using Claude
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Hong Kong + Singapore Equity Research Discovery Program: September
Susquehanna International Group, LLP
Panel discussions, employee meet-and-greets and interactive gaming sessions focused on equity and macro research
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Quantitative Trading Intern Summer 2027
Flow Traders
Nine-week in-person trading internship with simulations, quantitative models, strategy projects, and market-making exposure
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Launchpad - Trading and Quant Research
IMC Trading
Three-day in-person discovery program with trading simulations, quantitative strategies and quant-research workshops
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SoSoValue x AKINDO WaveHack Buildathon
SoSoValue / AKINDO
Multi-wave buildathon for AI crypto research-to-execution products using SoSoValue data, SoDEX APIs and ValueChain
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Career Kickstarter Shanghai - Trading and Research
Optiver
Five-day trading and research early-career program
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Anthropic External Researcher Access Program
Anthropic
Claude API credit access for external safety, policy, societal impact and model behavior research
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Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes
Foresight Institute
Grant program for AI-first projects in security, privacy, decentralized cooperation, epistemics and science/safety nodes
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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
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Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellowship
Google for Education
Faculty fellowship for AI in teaching, research, responsible AI, assessment, policy, and student outcomes
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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
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OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program
OpenAI
Cybersecurity research grant program using frontier AI to help defenders, evaluation and security tooling
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OpenAI Researcher Access Program
OpenAI
API credit support for safety, societal impacts, robustness, evaluations and policy-relevant AI research
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RAND CAST Fellowship
RAND Corporation
6+ month full/part-time fellowship at RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology, reviewed quarterly
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10a Labs Red Teaming Fellowship
10a Labs
Hands-on AI safety, security, and adversarial testing fellowship for frontier models and AI-enabled systems
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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
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DoorDash AI Research Fellowship
DoorDash
3-month program extendable to 6 months for applied ML and AI research in local commerce
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ERA:AI Fellowship
ERA:AI
10-week fully funded Cambridge fellowship for technical AI safety, governance, and technical governance research
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FAST - Frontier AI Security Training
AI Safety Singapore
3-5 day fully funded technical/governance training for frontier AI security practitioners and policymakers
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Intuition Machines AI/ML Research Fellow
Intuition Machines
6 or 12 month AI/ML fellowship focused on high-risk research and online security applications
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Lila Sciences AI Residency - Materials Science
Lila Sciences
Full-time AI for materials science residency with proprietary datasets, HPC and mentors
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Xaira Therapeutics AI in Residence
Xaira Therapeutics
6-12 month frontier ML and drug discovery residency with rolling Summer/Fall 2026 intakes
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Two Sigma Undergraduate Scholarship 2026
Two Sigma
Undergraduate STEM scholarship connected to quantitative trading and research mentorship
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CBAI Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety
CBAI
9-week fully funded Cambridge MA AI safety research program; Fall 2026 EOI available
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Citadel GQS PhD Colloquium 2026
Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies
Three-day ML/deep-learning PhD and postdoc research colloquium with Citadel quantitative researchers
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Discover Citadel 2026
Citadel / Citadel Securities
Two-day in-person informational program covering quantitative research, software engineering and trading pathways
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INSIGHT, NYC
Jane Street
Trading and research track with probability, market structure, arbitrage, mock trading and machine-learning activities
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SEE (India), Hong Kong cohort
Jane Street
Trading and research track with mock trading, market structure, arbitrage and machine-learning activities
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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
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CAIS Research Engineer Intern (Fall 2026)
Center for AI Safety
Fall 2026 research engineer internship on AI security, machine ethics, alignment and benchmarking AI risks
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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
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Vals AI Fellowship
Vals AI
3-6 months on AI evaluation research and benchmark development, remote or San Francisco
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Two Sigma PhD Fellowship 2026
Two Sigma
PhD fellowship for quantitative finance, econometrics, market microstructure, high-frequency econometrics, and related STEM research
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Jump Trading Fellowship Program 2026-2027
Jump Trading
University-nominated PhD research fellowship in mathematics/statistics, AI/ML, physics, and computer science
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Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship 2026/2027
Jane Street
PhD research fellowship supporting quantitative fields relevant to rigorous quantitative trading research
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Citadel GQS PhD Fellowship 2026/2027
Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies
Research funding for PhD candidates in mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering or computer science
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IMC PhD Fellowship
IMC Trading
Quantitative research fellowship with education funding, conference travel, and finalist support
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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
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Jane Street IN FOCUS NYC 2026
Jane Street
Multi-day trading and research, software engineering, and strategy/product program with mock trading sessions
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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
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Astra Fellowship - Empirical Stream
Constellation Institute
5-month fully funded in-person AI safety program on model evaluations, scalable oversight, AI control and alignment
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BASE Fellowship
BASE Research
13-week part-time remote AI safety/security/governance fellowship for Black researchers, practitioners and leaders
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CIP Research Fellowship
Collective Intelligence Project
6-month remote research fellowship using AI public-values, deliberation, and evaluation datasets
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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
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CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship
Computing Research Association
12-month responsible and trustworthy AI fellowship with field school, convenings, mentoring, and interdisciplinary research
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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
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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
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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
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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
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MATS Research Fellowship
MATS Program
10-week AI alignment and security research fellowship in Berkeley and London, with possible 6-12 month extension
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OpenAI Residency
OpenAI
6-month full-time residency for builders and early researchers to work with OpenAI research teams
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PRISM AI Safety Research Fellowship
PRISM Research
16-week remote AI safety research fellowship producing peer-reviewed work in interpretability, governance, evaluation and alignment
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Tarbell AI Journalism Fellowship
Tarbell Center for AI Journalism
One-year fellowship for journalists covering AI, with 10-week AI journalism training, summit, and 9-month newsroom placement
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Turing AI Global Fellowships
UKRI / EPSRC
Up to five-year UKRI/EPSRC fellowship for world-class AI researchers relocating to the UK to build transformational AI research teams
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UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship
UNIDIR
Week-long Geneva training for women diplomats on AI policy, legal, technical, peace, and security dimensions
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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
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OpenAI Safety Fellowship
OpenAI
Sep 14 2026-Feb 5 2027 external safety/alignment research program with mentorship and compute
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Pivotal AI Safety Research Fellowship
Pivotal Research
9 weeks in London with possible 6-month extension for high-impact AI safety research
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