AI Opportunities in Australia
AI opportunities based in or open to Australia — a smaller but actively tracked region in this catalog — plus Global-region listings Australia-based applicants are also eligible for.
Anthropic Fellows Program — AI Safety Research
💡 $3,850/week stipend + ~$15k/month in compute funding for AI safety research, mentored directly by Anthropic researchers.
Coefficient Giving / Open Philanthropy Career Development & Transition Funding
💡 Rolling grant support for people moving into AI safety or AI governance careers.
Coefficient Giving — Transformative AI Capacity-Building Funding
💡 Good fit for AI safety community-building, talent pipeline, or research-infrastructure projects.
Amazon Australia 2027 Applied Science Intern — Computer Vision
💡 Future Australia-based CV/ML research internship to track early.
HENNGE Global Internship Program
💡 Global fully-funded tech internship in Tokyo covering flights, stipend, and support.
Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning for Coders
💡 Free, credible, self-paced deep learning course for builders.
Cohere Research Internship
💡 Hands-on LLM research at a leading enterprise AI lab, with openings across safety, RAG, and finetuning tracks.
Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Data Trust & Safety — TikTok Australia
💡 Apply ML/computer vision to real content-safety systems at global scale — rolling 2026 intake.
Navigators Incubator — AI Security
💡 Up to $50k in project funding plus salary to develop your own AI security project under expert mentorship.
Agentic AI — DeepLearning.AI
💡 Learn agentic AI design patterns straight from Andrew Ng — free to audit, small fee for the certificate.
Google AI Essentials
💡 Beginner-friendly AI fluency course from Google, completed in under 5 hours.
AI Agents in LangGraph — DeepLearning.AI
💡 Learn graph-based, highly controllable AI agents directly from LangChain's founder.
Google AI Professional Certificate
💡 Google's official applied-AI-at-work credential, plus 3 months of Google AI Pro included.
Generative AI for Educators with Gemini — Google
💡 Free AI training built specifically for teachers, with PD-credit-eligible certification.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence — TAFE NSW / National AI Centre
💡 Fully government-subsidised AI literacy course — one of a million free scholarship places across Australia.
ASIF Ignite — Africa Cohort 1 (Climate + Agri AI)
💡 First-ever cohort of a climate-and-agri-focused African accelerator — genuinely hard to find before it builds a track record.
Meta Research PhD Fellowship 2026
💡 $42,000 annual stipend + 2 years tuition paid — one of the most prestigious PhD fellowships in CS/AI, open to international students at any university worldwide.
Cohere Labs Scholars Program — 8-Month Research Apprenticeship
💡 8-month paid ML research apprenticeship at Cohere Labs — no PhD or publications required, explicitly designed to create new entry points into research.
Fractional Technical Advisor — Computer Vision (Worldwide, Part-Time)
💡 Fractional Technical Advisor in Computer Vision — Arc Exclusive, part-time, worldwide, hourly rate, actively hiring.
Pathfinder Fellowship — Fall 2026
💡 Get funding and mentorship to run your university's AI safety or policy group.
SPAR Part-Time Contractor
💡 Part-time operations work supporting the largest AI safety research fellowship in the field.
Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
💡 The best-known globally-open coding stipend program — pick an AI/ML org and build for a summer, no country restriction.
Outreachy
💡 Paid, diversity-focused open-source internship, fully remote and open worldwide — some rounds include AI/ML projects.
LFX Mentorship
💡 Linux Foundation mentorship stipend, open worldwide — check each term's project list for ML/data tracks.
Microsoft Reinforcement Learning Open Source Fest
💡 One of the few OSS fellowship programs that's directly reinforcement-learning-focused, open worldwide.
Julia Summer of Code (JSoC)
💡 Contribute to Julia's numerical/ML computing ecosystem — stipend-funded, open worldwide.
John Hunter Technology Fellowship — NumFOCUS
💡 Fellowship supporting the scientific Python stack underneath most ML workflows — open worldwide.
sktime Mentoring Program
💡 Hands-on time-series ML library contribution with direct maintainer mentorship — open worldwide.
Open Source Research Experience (OSRE) — UC Santa Cruz OSPO
💡 Research-flavored OSS internship from a university OSPO — check each cycle for AI/ML project availability.
Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP) — Chinese Academy of Sciences
💡 GSoC-style stipend program from the Chinese Academy of Sciences — check each cycle's org list for AI/ML projects.
AIAF Fellowship 2026
💡 Paid, full-time AI alignment research fellowship — $12K stipend, real research output, open globally.
AI Dev Tools Zoomcamp
💡 Free, practical course on using AI coding agents in a real engineering workflow — from a well-known bootcamp community.
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