AI Opportunities in USA

💡 $3,850/week stipend + ~$15k/month in compute funding for AI safety research, mentored directly by Anthropic researchers.

💡 Rolling grant support for people moving into AI safety or AI governance careers.

💡 Good fit for AI safety community-building, talent pipeline, or research-infrastructure projects.

💡 AI research internship with a major enterprise AI lab; use the Workday link, not the old 404 link.

💡 Broad AI/ML research internship pipeline across Amazon science teams.

💡 Hands-on robotics + AI internship across Amazon Robotics teams.

💡 Global fully-funded tech internship in Tokyo covering flights, stipend, and support.

💡 Free, credible, self-paced deep learning course for builders.

💡 Postdoc-level AI safety research with Stuart Russell's lab — visa sponsorship included.

💡 Hands-on LLM research at a leading enterprise AI lab, with openings across safety, RAG, and finetuning tracks.

💡 Up to $50k in project funding plus salary to develop your own AI security project under expert mentorship.

💡 Large federal funding for institutions building state-level AI workforce and readiness infrastructure — multiple future rounds still open.

💡 Learn agentic AI design patterns straight from Andrew Ng — free to audit, small fee for the certificate.

💡 Beginner-friendly AI fluency course from Google, completed in under 5 hours.

💡 Learn graph-based, highly controllable AI agents directly from LangChain's founder.

💡 Google's official applied-AI-at-work credential, plus 3 months of Google AI Pro included.

💡 Free AI training built specifically for teachers, with PD-credit-eligible certification.

💡 Free Harvard-taught machine learning and data science courses, open worldwide.

💡 First-ever cohort of a climate-and-agri-focused African accelerator — genuinely hard to find before it builds a track record.

💡 Independent researcher track inside DoorDash — pick your own problem, publish at NeurIPS/ICML, with real operational data at scale.

💡 $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.

💡 8-month paid ML research apprenticeship at Cohere Labs — no PhD or publications required, explicitly designed to create new entry points into research.

💡 3-month Fractional CTO engagement at an AI startup — own architecture hardening, privacy-preserving LLMs, HIPAA controls, and offshore team leadership, fully remote.

💡 Fractional CTO at an AI-native startup — 10 hrs/week, remote, architecture and technical leadership.

💡 Fractional Tech Lead at a high-finance AI startup — $150–200/hr, 15 hrs/week, remote USA/Canada.

💡 Rare fractional AI/ML + 3D engineering role at Edlore — 10–20 hrs/week, remote USA, spatial AI work.

💡 Fractional Technical Advisor at an AI operations-intelligence startup — $250–350/hr, 15 hrs/week, pure advisory, remote USA.

💡 Fractional Technical Advisor in Computer Vision — Arc Exclusive, part-time, worldwide, hourly rate, actively hiring.

💡 Part-time Applied AI Engineer in agentic platforms (Vertex AI + Gemini) — Arc Exclusive, USA, hourly, actively hiring.

💡 Fractional Chief AI Officer at a B2B digital product studio — own AI transformation for mid-market clients, must be already operating fractionally.

💡 Fractional CTO at an AI copilots + agents SaaS — 10–30 hrs/week, hands-on cloud/DevOps + AI architecture, USA remote.

💡 Founding Fractional CAIO at Drona LLC — builder role, architect and ship AI systems from day one, starts fractional/contract.

💡 Part-time, hourly applied AI engineering role — remote, rolling hire via Arc.

💡 Free University of Maryland certificate on AI and career empowerment — self-paced, no cost.

💡 Guide AI architecture for a govtech procurement platform, fractional/remote.

💡 Get funding and mentorship to run your university's AI safety or policy group.

💡 Part-time operations work supporting the largest AI safety research fellowship in the field.

💡 The best-known globally-open coding stipend program — pick an AI/ML org and build for a summer, no country restriction.

💡 Paid, diversity-focused open-source internship, fully remote and open worldwide — some rounds include AI/ML projects.

💡 Linux Foundation mentorship stipend, open worldwide — check each term's project list for ML/data tracks.

💡 One of the few OSS fellowship programs that's directly reinforcement-learning-focused, open worldwide.

💡 Contribute to Julia's numerical/ML computing ecosystem — stipend-funded, open worldwide.

💡 Fellowship supporting the scientific Python stack underneath most ML workflows — open worldwide.

💡 Hands-on time-series ML library contribution with direct maintainer mentorship — open worldwide.

💡 Research-flavored OSS internship from a university OSPO — check each cycle for AI/ML project availability.

💡 GSoC-style stipend program from the Chinese Academy of Sciences — check each cycle's org list for AI/ML projects.

💡 Paid, full-time AI alignment research fellowship — $12K stipend, real research output, open globally.

💡 3 months fully funded to build, with housing, mentorship, and up to $50K in compute credits.

💡 Free, practical course on using AI coding agents in a real engineering workflow — from a well-known bootcamp community.