Opportunities for Hertz Fellows
Everyday, Hertz Fellows are building labs, starting companies, and working in teams that make the world a better place. And they could use a few more good fellows.
To help foster connections within the Hertz Fellows community, this webpage provides a place where Hertz Fellows can explore and share career opportunities that are tailor-made for their fellow fellows. View the available internships, jobs opportunities, and volunteer positions below to see if there's a good fit for you.
If you have a position that you'd like to share with Hertz Fellows, we encourage you to submit the opportunity. We'll publish it on this page and may promote it in our monthly newsletter.
Hertz Foundation Volunteer Positions
The Hertz Foundation has a vibrant community of fellows because of our many dedicated volunteers. Please consider volunteering your time and talent in one of the following ways. Contact us to give involved or for more information.
Summer Workshop Committee
Select speakers and help plan the program.
Mentor
Become a mentor for an in-school or early career fellow.
Internship Committee
Help us increase and communicate internship opportunities for our fellows.
University Representative
Be the contact at your university for fellowship applicants.
Prize Committee
Help select the recipients and criteria for the awarding of prizes.
Thesis Reviewer
Review a thesis in your field for the annual Hertz thesis prize.
Government Outreach Committee
Create opportunities for engagement with government agencies.
Innovation Hour Speaker
Present during one of our hour-long virtual programs.
Virtual Event Committee
Develop virtual programming for the community.
Local Event Host
Host an informal get together for community members in your area by submitting this form.
Volunteer Expert Positions
Volunteer Expert: Biotechnology Capabilities for National Security Needs
National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
Washington, DC/Remote
The biotech and life science enterprise is highly distributed, multi-disciplinary, and international, limiting identification, adoption, and influence of specific biotechnologies to meet national security needs. This committee will identify advanced biotechnologies that meet national security needs and assess early-stage research that may lead to new or enhanced biotechnologies. See website for full details. Contact Kavita Berger, Director, Board on Life Sciences: (202) 334-33601, KBerger@nas.edu.
Volunteer Expert
Roundtable on Plastics
The National Academies
Washington, DC | Remote
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish a Roundtable on Plastics that will examine issues associated with national efforts to reduce plastic pollution. The Roundtable will be a venue for federal agencies and cross-disciplinary experts in academia, industry, and non-governmental organizations to discuss priorities for future research initiatives and promising avenues for averting plastics into the environment. See website for full details. Contact Liana Vaccari: (202) 334-3381, LVaccari@nas.edu.
Volunteer Expert
International Bioeconomy Roundtable
The National Academies
Washington, DC
The National Academies seek an expert (non-member) for its International Bioeconomy Roundtable to engage diverse experts from industry, government, and academia with expertise across various sectors to address global bioeconomy challenges, emphasizing responsible innovation and best practices while fostering R&D; see webpage for full details. Contact Carmen Shaw, cshaw@nas.edu, (202) 334-2849 or Lyly Luhachack, lluhachack@nas.edu.
Internships
Intern
10x Genomics
Pleasanton, CA
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Michael Schnall-Levin
10xGenomics accelerates breakthroughs in biology that transform the world by powering fundamental research across the life sciences, including oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. We offer internships in the areas of computational biology, software, and molecular biology. If interested, send your CV to mike@10xgenomics.com.
Jobs
Director, NGS & Molecular Assays (Technology)
ArsenalBio
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow Robert Bao
South San Francisco, CA
Will lead NGS and molecular assays efforts to support R&D activities; responsible for the pipeline of routine and novel NGS methods and molecular assays; reports to VP of Technology; works closely with R&D, QA, Process Sciences, Tech'l Operations, preclinical/clinical translational groups to bring new products to market; prefer Ph.D. (Life Sci ) with in NGS exp and molecular assay technology development; 9+ yrs relevant work; 7+ yrs mgmt exp (see website for more details)
Vice President, Clinical Operations
Theradaptive
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow Luis Alvarez
Frederick, MD
This position will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our clinical programs while supporting the highest standards of quality and compliance. Reporting directly to the CEO, this position will lead and manage a team responsible for clinical operations and strategy. Requires extensive experience designing/executing medical device and combination product clinical trials, QA, and regulatory affairs within the biotech or pharmaceutical industry. Contact for more information.
Computational Biologist - Product Development/Single Cell
10X Genomics
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow Michael Schnall-Levin
Pleasanton, CA
This position will analyze data generated from our single-cell and spatial genomic assays; develop analyses to measure, improve, and optimize product performance during a fast-paced product development cycle, including discovering issues through careful analysis of sequencing data and working collaboratively with the interdisciplinary product team to help resolve them (and more). PhD and relevant experience required (see webpage for additional details).
Software Engineer
Voxa
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Chris Own
Seattle, WA
Voxa Software Engineers deliver prototypes, products, and documentation supporting customer orders, R&D, and service requirements. The work is demanding but with great meaning—Voxa tools catalyze new forms of discovery and aid in furthering human technological progress. Application contact: admin@projectvoxa.com.
Engineer Manager
Voxa
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Chris Own
Seattle, WA
The Engineering Manager translates designs and product/customer needs into project plans, deliverables, and to-do lists for the engineering team. We’re looking for a builder who is masterfully focused on excellence, and passionate about our mission to improve the human experience, and who is also not afraid to get their elbows dirty and get things done. Application contact: admin@projectvoxa.com.
Engineer/Applied Physicist
Voxa
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Chris Own
Seattle, WA
Voxa Engineers / Applied Physicists develop and build great products, delight our customers, and work effectively with accomplished teammates. You will also put your development knowledge to the test by working on and creating innovative technology solutions to deliver to pioneers in the fields of neuroscience, human health, pollution control, space exploration, and others. Application contact: admin@projectvoxa.com.
Android Engineer (FT/Hybrid)
Anthropic AI
San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA (travel required)
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Dario Amodei
*Computer Science degree or equivalent
*8+ years of Android development experience
*Proficiency in Kotlin and the Android SDK
*Experience with RESTful APIs to integrate backend services
*Knowledge of Android UI, threading, memory management fundamentals
*Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks like Dagger
*Proficiency creating modern applications with frameworks such as Jetpack Compose
Research Engineer, Interpretability (FT/Hybrid)
Anthropic AI
San Francisco or London (FT/Hybrid)
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Dario Amodei
Strong candidates will have:
*High performance, large-scale ML systems
*GPUs, Kubernetes, Pytorch, or OS internals
*Language modeling with transformers
*Reinforcement learning
*Large-scale ETL
*Familiarity with python is required for this role
Research Engineer
Anthropic AI
San Francisco or London (FT/Hybrid)
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Dario Amodei
Experienced required: High performance, large-scale ML systems; GPUs, Kubernetes, Pytorch, or OS internals; Language modeling with transformers; Reinforcement learning; Large-scale ETL. Projects include: Writing a design doc for fault tolerance strategies; Creating an interactive visualization of attention between tokens in a language model. Expected salary range $280k - $520k USD. See linked for full details.
Research Scientist
Anthropic AI
San Francisco or London (FT/Hybrid)
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Dario Amodei
Candidate must have at least 1 research project related to machine learning in which they played a major role. Projects include: Design a new method for automatically red teaming language models for harmful behavior; Create evaluation datasets for potential, new dangerous capabilities of language models such as persuasion or deception, and more. Expected salary range $280k - $520k USD. See link below for full details.
Software Engineer
Anthropic
San Francisco, CA
Submitted by: Hertz Fellow, Dario Amodei
You want to build large scale ML systems from the ground up that are safe, steerable, & trustworthy. This role will touch all parts of our code & infrastructure, whether that's making the cluster more reliable for our big jobs, improving throughput and efficiency, running and designing scientific experiments, or improving our dev tooling. You are excited to write code when you understand its context and importance.
Submit an Opportunity
Complete the form below to submit an internship or job opportunity for Hertz Fellows. We'll review your submission and post the position details on this webpage. We may also reach out to you for more information.
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