What if there were an apprenticeship for scientific imagination?
Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform 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 advance biotechnology by uniting life science 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 each 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 scientists, engineers, and physicians for our 2025 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 use their scientific instincts and creativity to generate novel scientific concepts that go beyond existing scholarship and challenge dogma. Fellows then learn to iterate, challenge, and shape these ideas into unreasonable yet 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 Flagship Pioneering’s unique process of generating and refining actionable, pioneering hypotheses
- Exhibit and develop your creativity, adaptability, and ability to innovate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Contribute to the exploration of ideas & innovations with the potential to become breakthrough companies
- Work directly with the highly experienced Flagship Pioneering team—a group of innovative and experienced scientists, entrepreneurs, and executives
- Build relationships and expand your network with 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.
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:
- Deep scientific background in biology, chemistry, agriculture, engineering, AI/ML, computer science, materials science, or related scientific fields
- Completed or within the final year of a professional scientific degree (PhD, MD, or international equivalent)
- Demonstrated leader, effective communicator, and strong team player
- Record of scientific and academic excellence
- Desire to challenge dogma and take creative leaps into the scientific unknown
- Self-starter mentality
- Available for full time employment in Boston/Cambridge no later than May 2026
CLICK HERE for information specific to the AI/ML Fellowship track.
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.
What We Do
Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life sciences companies to transform human health and sustainability.
Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied a unique, hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $30 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship is backed by >$3 billion of aggregate capital commitments, of which over $1.5 billion has been deployed toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside >$10 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions.
The current Flagship ecosystem includes Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO), Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SYRS).
