Announcing 2026 JOPRO Summer Internships
Opportunities from JOPRO, Orthogonal Research and Education Lab, and our partners and networks are now live on opportunities.jopro.org
JOPRO is accepting applications for its summer 2026 internship and research cohort programming. Positions span the organization’s three working groups and its partner programs — from open-source research infrastructure and data ethics to complexity science, cognitive sovereignty, and philosophy of science.
All positions are remote. Most run 10 to 12 weeks. Applications are rolling.
Highlighted Positions
Open Source Summer Cohort
Partner Programs / OREL
The Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory (OREL) has hosted Google Summer of Code cohorts since 2017, with nearly 25 contributors completing the program under the mentorship of Dr. Bradly Alicea and colleagues.
The Open Source Summer Cohort runs alongside GSoC each summer, giving participants access to the same mentorship network, discussion group, and professional development programming as GSoC contributors — working on open-source projects in data science and AI, research infrastructure, computational biology, among other topics.
For undergraduate or graduate students with software development experience and interest in open-source research tools, neuroscience, or computational modeling. International applicants welcome.
Note: Full Google-Funded GSoC Contributors will be announced tomorrow by Orthogonal Lab and International Neuroinformatics Coordination Facility (INCF)
Data Ethics & Responsible AI Research Intern
Society Ethics Tech / Data x Direction
Data x Direction bridges data science, ethics, human-centered AI, and interdisciplinary leadership. Interns select a focus track (Technical or Policy & Communication), identify a research topic in consultation with the Project Lead, and produce a final deliverable suitable for a portfolio or publication.
For undergraduate or graduate students with strong writing skills and familiarity with core data science concepts.
New: Complexity Science Research Intern
Cognition Futures / Center for Future Studies
This newly announced position investigates the emerging convergence between David Krakauer’s institutional framing of complexity science and Michael Levin’s experimental vocabulary for agency, intelligence, and teleonomic matter. The intern will produce a structured comparative analysis of where these two research programs converge, where they diverge, and what the divergence reveals about the current state of the field.
The project connects to JOPRO’s philosophy of science work and its broader investigation of how fields negotiate paradigmatic commitments in real time.
For graduate students or advanced undergraduates in philosophy of science, cognitive science, complex systems, computational biology, or STS.
AI for Human Flourishing: Preserving Agency and Cognitive Sovereignty
Society Ethics Tech
AI systems are increasingly embedded in the environments where people think, decide, and form beliefs. This internship investigates what happens to human agency when AI mediates cognition at scale — surveying research on persuasion, sycophancy, epistemic dependence, and reflective capacity, and examining what design responses exist to preserve cognitive sovereignty.
The intern will produce a structured review or working paper draft and engage with JOPRO’s DigiNEST and Data x Direction teams where relevant.
For undergraduate or graduate students in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, HCI, psychology, or STS.
Philosophy of Science Research Intern
Futures Center / Kuhn Update Project
Does Kuhn’s model of scientific revolutions still describe how fields actually develop? This internship contributes to a research project examining whether classical frameworks of scientific change hold under contemporary conditions: accelerating discovery cycles, institutional pressure on research, and the blurring of disciplinary boundaries.
The intern will contribute to literature review and help develop the argument for one paper in the series, engaging with Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, and more recent theorists. Part of JOPRO’s Foundation of Alternatives research.
For graduate students in philosophy of science, history of science, STS, or sociology of knowledge.
Full Summer Opportunities Now Launched
JOPRO and its partner organizations have many additional openings this summer, including positions in digital narratives and epistemic agency, futures ecosystem mapping, diverse intelligences research, deliberative methodology, communications, and a Field Stewards fellowship. See all current openings at opportunities.jopro.org.
We appreciate the enthusiastic applicants who have already reached out! Interviews have begun this week, and we will reply and offer scheduling for next steps as soon as is tenable.
How to Apply
Each posting includes an application form. You can also email “start [at] jopro.org” with your statement of interest and CV.
If none of the listed positions fit but you see a way to contribute, JOPRO accepts pitched roles: describe the position you would create and what you would bring to it.