2025 Flagship Pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fellowship

What if you could hack an unsolved problem with an innovative AI solution that had real-world value?

At Flagship Pioneering, creativity defines what we do: we are a scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs dedicated to conceiving and building life-changing companies. We harness science and entrepreneurialism to envision alternative futures, beginning with seemingly unreasonable propositions and navigating to transformational outcomes through an iterative, evolutionary methodology. Flagship has created over 100 scientific ventures (including the now familiar drug and vaccine innovator, Moderna Therapeutics), many with a strong focus on leveraging advances in computing, big data, and AI. In recent years, this trend has accelerated with first-in-category life science companies such as Generate Biomedicines, Cellarity, Valo, Apriori, and many others creating breakthrough innovations using AI advances.

About the AI Fellowship

The AI Fellowship Program at Flagship Pioneering provides an unrivaled opportunity for individuals to creatively harness computational thinking toward cross-disciplinary innovation as part of our venture creation process. We are looking for extraordinary computational scientists and entrepreneurs to learn our unique company creation process and work alongside entrepreneurs and scientists within the Flagship Ecosystem focused on solving the most impactful challenges in AI and the life sciences.

During the summer, AI Fellows will work in teams to generate novel scientific concepts that challenge dogma by leveraging their scientific instincts and creativity. As part of this process, AI Fellows will learn to iterate and shape these ideas into “seemingly unreasonable” yet compelling venture hypotheses as well as advance these ideas through a hands-on implementation project.

As a Flagship Pioneering AI Fellow you will:

• Learn Flagship Pioneering’s system of generating and refining actionable pioneering hypotheses
• Utilize and develop your creativity, adaptability, and ability to innovate
• Contribute to the creation of game-changing ideas & innovations based on computational approaches that can be developed into the next breakthrough companies
• Develop and code computational tools and methods that accelerate cross-disciplinary breakthrough innovations.
• Work directly with highly experienced Flagship Pioneering team members—a group of innovative and experienced scientists, entrepreneurs, and executives
• Build relationships and expand your network with a diverse and highly successful group of peers
• Explore full-time opportunities at Flagship Pioneering and our AI/ML-focused companies

More information on the Flagship Pioneering Fellowship is available here.

2025 Fellowship Details:

• The Flagship Pioneering Fellowship requires a full-time, in person commitment from June 2nd– August 22nd, 2025
• Flagship Pioneering Fellows receive a stipend and work at the Flagship Pioneering offices in Kendall Square (55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA)

Application Deadline: January 17th, 2025

Qualifications:

• PhD or Master’s or currently enrolled in a graduate program in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, physics, biology, neuroscience, chemistry, or another discipline with a strong quantitative focus
• Deep research and/or industry experience in at least one of the following fields: machine learning, modeling and simulation, computational biology, computational neuroscience, computational chemistry
• Strong programming background (high proficiency in Python, R, or similar required)
• Demonstrated leader, effective communicator, and strong team player
• Record of scientific and academic excellence and creativity in the ability to solve complex scientific problems
• Willingness to challenge dogma
• Self-starter mentality
• Available for full-time employment in Boston/Cambridge no later than May 2026

CLICK HERE for more information specific to the General Fellowship track. 

More About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.