Opportunities
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Here's how you can get involved at JOPRO. You can subscribe to our Substack, come to an event, and follow us on LinkedIn; Bluesky; YouTube; or join our Community Discord.
You can learn about available internships, fellowships, programs, and jobs. If you are in Boston or Cambridge, these hybrid and in-person opportunities at are for you.
Institutional Affiliation Opportunities: For joint opportunities with active partners SUNY Albany, UC San Diego, or International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). Please apply with insitutional emails when available.
Current Openings
For opportunities from across our extended network, see our Community Boardcoming soon.
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Historical Analysis of Mind, Mental Health, and Individual Characteristics
Mental Health Paradigms & Perspectives / Center for Futures StudiesResearch internship on how psychiatry, psychology, and clinical mental health came to define what they study — and what was closed off along the way. Work on the DSM-III break, the status of first-person report, or a turning point you propose yourself.
Learn more →Substrate-Agnostic Agent Characteristics and Behavior
Cognition Futures / Center for Futures StudiesInvestigating the prospects and limits of substrate independent behavior analyses: which claims about agency and cognition still hold once you move them off the systems they were built on. From 1943 BPT to modern Levin/Bongard work and advances in complexity science, we look to develop novel frameworks.
Learn more →Evaluating Moral Competence in AI Systems
Society Ethics Tech / Data x DirectionA research internship on investigating how to discern whether an LLM reasons morally, rather than simply produces output that reads that way. Open to empirical, interpretive, or conceptual approaches — interpretability, moral psychology, evaluation design, or philosophy.
Learn more →The Political Economy of Scientific Publishing and Knowledge Generation
Center for Futures StudiesExploring how the current system of scientific publishing came about: the commercialization of journals, the rise of citation metrics as a measure of academic worth, and the consolidation of the industry into a few large firms.
Learn more →JOPRO Student Chapter (Interest)
Institutional / NetworkWe are gathering interest from students, postgrads, and early career researchers who want to build something local — a reading group, a session series, or a research community around questions of knowledge, technology, and the future. The model is open; tell us what you would want to run.
Learn more →Volunteer Co-Organizer — ACM NYCWiC 2027
Society Ethics Tech / ACM NYCWiC 2027Help shape NYCWiC 2027. The ACM New York Celebration of Women in Computing is recruiting volunteer co-organizers for next year's conference — program, logistics, sponsorship, communications, and more.
Learn more →Incubation & Development
Incubation Program
JOPRO supports emerging research projects through structured incubation. From ideation to execution, we help researchers and builders develop ambitious initiatives. If you have a project idea that aligns with JOPRO's mission, reach out.
2026 Update: One slot remains open for Fall 2026. We are also now considering projects for Winter 2026 and Spring 2027.
Mentorship & Professional Development
Participants across JOPRO programs have access to reading groups, office hours, and peer feedback structures. These are integrated into the internship and fellowship experience rather than offered as standalone programs.
Help wanted! Research Participation & Volunteer
Participate in Research
Help advance JOPRO-affiliated research by participating in surveys, user studies, and feedback sessions from our researchers and partners.
Event Volunteering
Volunteer opportunities for JOPRO-supported events are listed in the openings above.
Contact
Get in touch
Email us with questions about opportunities, involvement, or potential collaboration on joint or hosted programming. We're happy to hear from researchers, organizations, and institutions at any stage.
Don't see it? Pitch a role
If you have an idea for how you could contribute to JOPRO's mission, we want to hear it. Send a brief description of the role you'd create and what you'd bring to it to start@jopro.org.