Deadline: August 15, 2026
Applications are open for the Transfyr AI Fellowship 2026-2027. This is a one-year research fellowship for exceptional graduate students to lead a project solving frontier machine learning problems that impact real-world scientific systems. Fellows will work on ML systems that need to understand scientific work as it actually happens across people, instruments, protocols, repeated attempts, automation, and real outcomes.
Scientific work is rich with tacit decisions, failed attempts, operator judgment, noisy instruments, and context that never makes it into a protocol. The next generation of scientific AI needs to reason over that reality, not just polished papers and clean benchmarks. They are building the world’s largest multimodal dataset of scientific execution and are inviting you to come play with it.
Program Details
This is a full-time fellowship, not a side project. Fellows get a competitive package, close mentorship, and room to build work that can become public research.
- Fellows receive $125,000 annual compensation plus benefits.
- Fellows are full-time for 12 months. Current students should be able to self-certify that they can take leave or otherwise commit full-time.
- The fellowship is designed around full-time in-person work in the Boston/Cambridge area. Remote arrangements may be considered by exception when the project and candidate make it workable.
- International applicants are welcome. Visa support is available for selected fellows.
- Fellows should aim to produce a publishable research artifact, benchmark, dataset, demo, prototype, or equivalent technical contribution, and will have the opportunity to implement promising solutions into real-world contexts and products. Transfyr owns fellowship work product, and supports publication subject to confidentiality and IP review.
- Fellows will have access to compute, GPUs, data, and project support. Tell the organisers what resources your research proposal needs.
Eligibility
- Current graduate students, recent PhDs, and postdocs can apply;
- Applicants should be available to start around September 2026;
- Selected fellows are expected to be based in Boston/Cambridge full-time.
Application
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply by August 15 for full consideration, and include links that make your work easy to evaluate.
For more information, visit Transfyr AI Fellowship.
