2026 Flagship Pioneering Fellowship

What if there were an apprenticeship for scientific imagination? 

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform and product companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.    

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to unite scientific and technical innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.    

Flagship-founded companies 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 named to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies three times.  

About the Fellowship 

We are looking for extraordinary, early career scientists, engineers, and physicians for our 2026 class of Flagship Pioneering Fellows. Immersed in our unique company creation process, Fellows start by asking "What if" or "If only." Working in teams, they combine their scientific and technical instincts with unconstrained creativity to generate novel scientific and technology concepts that push beyond existing scholarship and challenge dogma. Fellows then learn to iterate, challenge, and shape these ideas into unreasonable, compelling hypotheses with the potential to produce pioneering new ventures. 

A summer as a Flagship Pioneering Fellow is an intense, exciting, unrivaled opportunity to learn our pioneering approach to building breakthrough companies that change the world. 

As a Flagship Pioneering Fellow you will: 

• Learn and implement Flagship Pioneering's unique process of generating and refining actionable, pioneering venture hypotheses
• Exhibit and develop your creativity, adaptability, and ability to innovate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Explore ideas & innovations with the potential to become breakthrough companies
• Meet, network with, and learn from experienced members of the Flagship team from across our Ecosystem – Associates, Partners, Business Unit and functional leaders, CEOs and more
• Build relationships and expand your professional network through a diverse and successful cohort of peers and alumni
• Explore full-time opportunities at Flagship Pioneering and our Ecosystem of companies

More information on the Flagship Pioneering Fellowship is available here. 

2026 Fellowship Details: 

• The Flagship Pioneering Fellowship requires a full-time, in person commitment from June 1st – August 21st 2026
• Flagship Pioneering Fellows receive a stipend and work at the Flagship Pioneering offices in Kendall Square (55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA)
• Following the Fellowship, Fellows are expected to be available for potential full-time employment in Cambridge MA no later than June 1st  2027

Application Deadline: January 12, 2026 

Qualifications: 

• Deep expertise in any scientific, computational or technical field or specialty: biology, chemistry, agriculture, engineering, AI/ML, computer science, materials science, etc.
• Completed or within the final year of a professional scientific degree (PhD, MD, or international equivalent). Select exceptions for computational scientists with a completed master's degree.
  • History of using rigorous science to pursue creative solutions to challenging problems
  • Comfort with scientific uncertainty and ambiguity of outcomes; self-starter mentality
• Demonstrated leader, effective communicator, and strong team player

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.

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.

The salary range for this role is $8,000 - $9,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Flagship Pioneering's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.