Description
What if there were an apprenticeship for scientific imagination?
Flagship Pioneering is a scientific innovation engine that invents and builds companies that change the world. We bring great scientific minds together with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps in human health, sustainability, and beyond.
As a Flagship Pioneering Fellow, you will:
- Learn and implement Flagship Pioneering's unique process of generating and refining venture hypotheses
- Exhibit and develop your 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 your own scientific instincts, with training and support to use the newest tools effectively
- Meet, network with, and learn from experienced members of the Flagship team and across our Ecosystem – Associates, Partners, Business Unit and functional leaders, CEOs and more
- Explore full-time opportunities at Flagship Pioneering and our Ecosystem of companies
The Flagship Pioneering Fellowship requires a full-time, in-person commitment from June 7th – August 27th, 2027. Flagship Pioneering Fellows receive a stipend and work at the Flagship Pioneering offices in Kendall Square (55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA).
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 combined with a history using rigorous science to pursue creative solutions to challenging problems
- Demonstrated leader, effective communicator, and strong team player