Applications are currently being accepted for the Vals AI Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Vals AI Fellowship
Vals builds evaluations for AI in legal, finance, science, and other high-stakes domains. We work with the leading AI labs and Fortune 500 companies, which means fellows get access to problems and infrastructure that are difficult to replicate in a university lab.Our goal is to develop better benchmarks, evaluation techniques, and ensure we’re measuring what matters- as a fellow, you’ll be helping tackle some of these problems.
Benefits of Vals AI Fellowship
- Stipend: $1,000-2,500 / week
- Compute: Unlimited API credits + budget capacity for GPUs and human data
- Mentorship: weekly 1:1s with a Vals research lead, plus regular access to the broader team
- Access: frontier model APIs, our internal evaluation infrastructure, and (where appropriate) real customer evaluation problems
- Workspace: desk in our San Francisco office (if you’re interested in being in-person)
- Network: intros to researchers across frontier labs
Vals AI Fellowship Requirements
- Applicants should have preferred background in CS, ML, statistics, or an adjacent relevant field, although all applications will also be considered on the merit of the ideas and team.
- Genuine interest in evaluation as a research discipline, not just as a stepping stone
- Comfortable working in a startup environment: faster iteration, less hand-holding, more direct contact with work that ends up mattering
You don’t need to have published in ML venues specifically. Great evaluation work can come from measurement, psychometrics, statistics, HCI, and social science backgrounds. They ask fellows to be able to commit at least 20 hours per week during the fellowship. This can be done during a leave, over the summer, or during a flexible period of a PhD program.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
30 June, 2026
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