Fellowships for developers
52 open fellowships, each checked against the organizer's official page. 5 close in the next 7 days and 7 take applications on a rolling basis.
A fellowship pays a person rather than a project, usually a stipend or a salary for a set period, with time to do research, open source work or a career move.
Brains Fellowship 2027 by Speculative Technologies
Brains is a free, four month, part time remote fellowship that helps scientists design and launch new research programs. Apply by 26 October 2026.
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowship 2027
The ETH AI Center in Zurich offers 8 to 12 paid doctoral fellowships in AI, with a salary from CHF 73,100 a year. Apply by 27 October 2026.
ETH AI Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027
ETH AI Center postdoctoral fellowships in Zurich pay CHF 92,500 in year one and CHF 97,200 in year two for AI research. Apply by 27 October 2026.
Anthropic Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship. Apply by 28 October 2026.
Anthropic STEM Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month STEM Fellowship for PhD scientists and engineers. Apply by 28 October 2026.
BSSw Fellowship Program 2027
Up to $25,000 for a person who improves scientific software through a workshop, tutorial or community project. Applicants need a U.S. institution. Deadline October 30, 2026.
Activate Fellowship US Cohort 2027
Activate pays a $100,000 yearly stipend, $100,000 in R&D support and travel funds for two years, with no equity, to first time US hard tech founders. Applications close October 30, 2026.
Innovation Crossroads Cohort 2027
A two year hard tech fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with a $115,000 yearly stipend and lab access. Applications close on October 30, 2026.
West Gate Cohort 6
West Gate Cohort 6 pays a $115,000 yearly stipend for up to two years. Apply by October 30, 2026.
Chain Reaction Innovations Cohort 2027
Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne pays technical founders $115k a year for two years to build energy and science startups. Apply by 30 October 2026.
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program 2027 to 2028
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship gives up to $60,000 per award to PhD students working on accelerated computing. Apply by 30 October 2026.
Hertz Fellowship 2027
The Hertz Fellowship gives US PhD students in science, maths and engineering up to five years of funding worth up to $250,000. Apply by 30 October 2026.
University of Chicago AI in the Workplace Fellowship, Spring 2027
University of Chicago fellowship with up to $25,000 for faculty and PhD students studying how AI changes work. Apply by October 30, 2026.
MATS Residency Winter 2027: paid AI safety research
The MATS Residency pays $155,000 to $285,000 a year for AI safety research in London, Berkeley or Washington DC. Applications close 31 October 2026.
ELLIS PhD Program: call for applications 2026
The ELLIS PhD Program pairs machine learning students with advisors in Europe. Apply by 31 October 2026.
Processing Foundation Fellowship 2027
Eight month paid fellowship with a $10,000 stipend to build open source creative coding tools on p5.js and Processing. US only. Nominations close 1 November 2026.
Pivotal Research AI Safety Fellowship Q1 2027
A 15 week, full time AI safety research fellowship in London with a £15,000 to £18,000 stipend plus housing. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Generator Residency Winter 2027 for AI safety generalists
Generator is a three month residency in Berkeley for AI safety generalists, with a $8,500 monthly stipend and travel covered. Apply by November 1, 2026.
CAMBRIA January 2027: free AI safety bootcamp in Cambridge, MA
CAMBRIA is a free three week AI safety bootcamp in Cambridge, MA, from 4 to 22 January 2027, with housing, meals and travel support. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Breakthrough Energy Fellows Cohort 7: Innovator Fellowship 2027
Breakthrough Energy Fellows Cohort 7 offers climate tech founders up to $500,000 in a SAFE plus a year of support. Concept papers are due 2 November 2026.
Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 11, business and non-academic
UKRI pays £100,000 to £3 million for a four year fellowship hosted by a UK business or non academic organisation. Applications close on 4 November 2026.
Beijing AI Safety Residency: Spring 2027 cohort
The Beijing AI Safety Residency pays $5,000 a month plus flights and housing for about three months of AI safety research from April 2027. Apply by 6 November 2026.
Screen Queensland Games Residency 2027
Screen Queensland's Games Residency 2027 gives Queensland game developers a year of desk space, mentoring and income support. Apply by 11 November 2026.
Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship 2027
Jane Street covers a year of tuition and pays a $50,000 stipend to PhD students in computer science, maths, physics or statistics. Apply by 13 November 2026.
NITMB Fellows Program 2027
NITMB offers a three year paid fellowship in Chicago for early career researchers in mathematical biology. Apply by 15 November 2026.
IMPRS-IS doctoral program 2027: funded PhD positions in AI and intelligent systems
IMPRS-IS offers funded doctoral positions in AI, machine learning and robotics in Stuttgart and Tübingen. Apply by 15 November 2026 for the 2027 round.
Iliad Intensive January 2027
The Iliad Intensive in January 2027 is a free four week AI alignment course with a $5,000 travel and housing allowance. Apply by 16 November 2026.
WASP-HS postdoctoral scholarship on autonomous systems and robotics
WASP-HS pays about USD 73,308 a year for a postdoc at MIT on autonomous systems. Apply by 16 November 2026.
Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program 2027
About 160 US women founders get coaching, advisors and a $2,000 education grant from the Tory Burch Foundation. Apply by 17 November 2026.
AFFINE Alignment Seminar Winter 2027 in Portugal
The AFFINE Alignment Seminar is a free four week AI alignment residency in Portugal in January 2027, with a $1,000 stipend. Apply by November 22, 2026.
Tarbell Fellowship 2027 to 2028: paid year as an AI reporter
The Tarbell Fellowship pays $75,000 to $135,000 for a year as an AI reporter at a partner newsroom in the U.S., U.K. or Hong Kong. Apply by 22 November 2026.
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan: 2027 cohort
The Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan pays $81,000 a year for two years of AI driven science. Apply by November 23, 2026.
RobotX PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027 at ETH Zurich
Paid PhD and postdoc fellowships in robotics at ETH Zurich, with one application seen by up to three RobotX professors. Apply by 27 November 2026.
Nebraska Innovation Fellowship
The Nebraska Innovation Fellowship gives a $2,500 materials allowance and studio access. Apply by 30 November 2026.
Simons Institute Research Fellowship: Diffusion Generative Modeling, Fall 2027
The Simons Institute offers a research fellowship on diffusion generative modeling for Fall 2027. Apply by 1 December 2026.
Oxford Technical AI Governance DPhil Studentships 2027
Fully funded Oxford DPhil places on the technical side of AI governance, from compute and hardware to model evaluations. Apply by 2 December 2026 for October 2027 entry.
Conception X Venture Scientist 100: Spring 2027 fellowship
Conception X Venture Scientist 100 is a free nine month startup fellowship for PhD researchers in the UK and Europe. Apply by 6 December 2026.
Princeton CITP Fellows Program 2027 to 2028
Princeton's CITP Fellows Program offers fully funded, in person fellowships for 2027 to 2028 in tech policy, AI and security. Apply by 7 December 2026.
Apple Developer Academy @ POSTECH 2027 Cohort
The Apple Developer Academy @ POSTECH 2027 is a free nine month app development program in Pohang, South Korea, with a monthly stipend of KRW 1.1 million. Apply by 9 December 2026.
Flagship Pioneering Fellowship 2027
Flagship Pioneering pays $8,000 to $9,000 a month for a 12 week summer fellowship in Cambridge, MA, for PhD and MD level scientists. Apply by 15 December 2026.
Internet Society Fellowship Program 2027
Internet Society fellows get a mentor, event travel and up to $5,000 for a project. Finish training by November 22; apply by December 18, 2026.
HIIG Impact AI Fellowship 2027 in Berlin
Ten week HIIG fellowship to assess the impact of AI projects for sustainability and the public interest, with a €5,000 stipend. Apply by 15 January 2027.
Kleiner Perkins Fellows 2027: engineering and design tracks
Summer fellowship for engineering and design students at a Kleiner Perkins portfolio startup in the Bay Area. Apply by 31 January 2027.
Gauntlet AI Cohort 8
Gauntlet AI covers travel, housing, food, and compute for a ten week fellowship. Cohort 8 starts 25 January 2027. Applications are rolling.
Solana Scholars research internships for PhD students
Solana Scholars funds 3 month research internships for PhD students, working with Solana engineers on consensus, networking, cryptography and economics. Applications are open all year.
Perplexity Research Fellowship
The Perplexity Research Fellowship pays a $180,000 or $220,000 annualized salary for 3 months of full time AI research. Applications are rolling.
Anthropic Fellows Program: January 2027 cohort
Anthropic Fellows get a weekly stipend of $3,850 and about $15k a month for compute for four months of AI safety or security research. Applications for the January cohort are open.
Clojurists Together quarterly fellowships
Clojurists Together pays Clojure maintainers $1,000 to $9,000 per quarterly fellowship, or about $18,000 a year, to work on their open source projects.
Claude Corps fellowship
Claude Corps is a one year paid fellowship at nonprofits across the United States for people early in their careers, with an $85,000 salary. Applications are rolling for the 2027 cohorts.
Sequoia Open Source Fellowship
Sequoia covers living expenses for 6 to 12 months so an open source developer can work full time on their project. No equity, rolling applications, 2 to 3 fellows a year.
Schmidt AI in Science Global Faculty Fellowships at Imperial: 2027 cohort
Imperial's Schmidt AI in Science Global Faculty Fellowship gives faculty from five partner universities a £48,000 stipend for a year in London. Applications open 3 November 2026.
NOVA Fellows Program 2027: $100,000 game grants for recent graduates
The NOVA Fellows Program gives graduates of 13 partner game schools $100,000 to make an original game. Apply 7 December 2026 to 10 January 2027.