Transfyr AI Fellowship for Researchers, Remote Option 2026

The Transfyr AI Fellowship is a paid research position rather than a scholarship. It is hosted by an organisation in the United States, but the work can be done remotely, which widens the field of applicants well beyond those able to relocate.

Who can apply

The fellowship is open to applicants of all nationalities at Masters, PhD or postdoctoral level. The disciplines covered are computer science and IT, engineering, mathematics and the natural sciences. That breadth is deliberate: artificial intelligence research today draws physicists, mathematicians and engineers alongside machine learning specialists.

What the fellowship pays

Fellows receive $125,000 annual compensation plus benefits, and the term is twelve months. That level of pay tells you what you are applying for: a full-time research post at market rates, not a traineeship, and the competition is with researchers who already have a publication record.

Deadline and how to apply

There is no fixed deadline; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. In practice that means places are decided by being filled rather than by the calendar, so applying early is worth more than waiting for a perfect draft.

Before you apply

Make the application show published work or open code that can be inspected. Research posts at this level of pay are decided on what the candidate has already done, not on what they intend to study. If you plan to work remotely, say so explicitly and propose concrete overlapping hours with the team, because the practical question a hiring panel has about a remote researcher is whether collaboration will actually happen.