Horizon Fellowship 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 28, 2025

Applications for the Horizon Fellowship 2026 at the moment are open. The Horizon Fellowship locations specialists in AI, biotechnology, and different rising applied sciences in federal companies, congressional places of work and committees, and main suppose tanks in Washington, DC for as much as two years. Fellows obtain complete coaching, networking alternatives, and entry to a supportive neighborhood of 85+ different fellows and alumni to launch their careers in public service.

Emerging applied sciences like AI and biotechnology are quickly reshaping many domains, from healthcare and science to nationwide safety and the economic system. The US authorities performs a essential function in growing and governing these applied sciences, but it surely typically struggles to seek out and retain the requisite technical experience.

Horizon fellows assist bridge this hole, bringing topic-matter data and expertise to those urgent points. As a fellow, you’ll be part of a neighborhood of devoted professionals engaged on these challenges, permitting you to apply your experience to actual-world coverage points and launch a profession in public service.

Program Structure

Successful candidates will undergo coaching, matching, and placement phases from January to summer time of 2026.

• Training (January–March 2026): The chosen fellowship cohort completes a part-time, work-suitable distant coaching on how the US federal authorities works, utilized abilities (e.g., coverage memo writing), and AI and biosecurity coverage debates. The coaching culminates in an immersive in-particular person weekend in Washington, DC, the place fellows join with dozens of rising know-how specialists from throughout the coverage world. The curriculum and networking are designed to organize fellows to safe excessive-influence placement affords and carry out excessive-high quality work throughout their fellowship.
• Matching (April–May 2026): After coaching, fellows start an individualized matching course of, throughout which Horizon connects them with potential host organizations inside their respective tracks (government department companies, congressional places of work and committees, or suppose tanks). Most fellows obtain a number of affords and have the OPPORTUNITY to decide on the position that most closely fits their objectives. Horizon has a 100% fellow placement charge.
• Placement (Spring/Summer 2026 onward): After efficiently matching, fellows work with their chosen host group to finalize a begin date that works finest for them (sometimes in the course of the summer time). Horizon gives full-time wage and advantages as soon as their placement begins. Fellows’ work is totally supervised and directed by their host group.

Benefits

• Fellows obtain a stipend of $113,000/yr and junior fellows obtain $75,000/yr equal, plus $15,000 in well being care help. Additionally, all fellows and junior fellows can entry a $3,000 skilled growth stipend and as much as $3,000 for relocation to DC (if wanted). 

Eligibility

• All fellows should be eligible to work within the United States and prepared to stay within the Washington, DC space at some point of their placement. They will not be capable of sponsor US employment visas for fellows; US everlasting residents (inexperienced card holders) are eligible to apply, however fellows who will not be US residents could also be ineligible for placements that require a safety clearance.
• Most aggressive candidates have some quantity of demonstrated topic-matter experience of their rising know-how space of focus. This doesn’t must be a PhD-degree specialization; it might be a paper, internship, work venture, related undergrad diploma, or course work. Beyond credentials, in the course of the application course of, we are going to assess your topic-matter experience. They anticipate aggressive candidates to have the ability to clarify ideas of their topic space to a non-technical knowledgeable.
• They strongly encourage people with backgrounds and experiences underrepresented in science and know-how coverage to apply, corresponding to ladies, veterans, and other people of shade.

Application

The preliminary application type asks for the next objects:

• A CV or resume (≤ 2 pages)
• A collection of quick reply questions in your motivations and experiences (≤ 200 phrases)

After the preliminary submission, profitable candidates will full one quick work take a look at and a collection of interviews. They are dedicated to utilizing proof-based mostly finest practices within the application and evaluate course of to advertise variety and advantage-based mostly choice inside the expertise pool, corresponding to blind-grading application supplies and compensating candidates for his or her time spent on work checks.

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For extra data, go to Horizon Fellowship.