2027 Flagship Pioneering Fellowship

The role

Fellows learn and implement a unique process for generating and refining venture hypotheses. They work in teams to combine scientific instincts and AI tools to create novel scientific and technology concepts.

What you will do

• Learn and implement Flagship Pioneering’s unique process of generating and refining venture hypotheses
• Exhibit and develop creativity, adaptability, and ability to innovate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Explore ideas and innovations with the potential to become breakthrough companies
• Work at the frontier of polyintelligence, integrating AI with scientific instincts
• Meet, network with, and learn from experienced members of the Flagship team and Ecosystem
• Explore full-time opportunities at Flagship Pioneering and its Ecosystem of companies

Required qualifications

• Deep expertise in any scientific or technical field: biology, chemistry, agriculture, engineering, materials science, etc. or research or industry expertise applying AI/ML to any of these fields
• Broad scientific interests and the ability to quickly ask provocative questions in any scientific or technical domain
• Completed or within the final year of a professional scientific degree (PhD, MD, or international equivalent)
• Comfort with scientific uncertainty and ambiguity of outcomes
• History using rigorous science to pursue creative solutions to challenging problems
• Demonstrated leader
• Effective communicator
• Strong team player

Benefits

• Stipend

Before you apply

• Following the Fellowship, Fellows are expected to be available for potential full-time employment in Cambridge MA no later than June 1st 2028

About the company

Flagship Pioneering is a scientific innovation engine that invents and builds companies. They use a process called polyintelligence to integrate human creativity and nature's intelligence with artificial intelligence.