OpenFieldIndustrial Research Fellowship in Generative AI Systems & Large Language Models
Three-year industrial doctoral fellowship conducted in partnership with Amsterdam AI scale-ups developing memory-efficient quantization and verifiable retrieval architectures for LLMs.
Application checklist & requirements
These requirements reflect published university guidelines available at the last review. Review official department guidelines before submission.
- Academic degree / Prerequisites
- Master's degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or AI with high distinction
- English language proficiency
- IELTS 7.0 or Cambridge C1
- Standardized testing (GRE/GMAT)
- Not required
- Thesis / Research statement
- Master's thesis and 2,500-word proposal on fine-tuning LLMs or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Recommendation letters
- Three academic or industrial research referee letters
How much will it cost? How much funding is available?
- Financial support / stipend
- Fully salaried: EUR 36,000 to EUR 44,000 annual gross salary plus high-performance GPU compute credits
- Application fee
- EUR 50
- Tuition / joining costs
- EUR 0 (tuition covered by enterprise research sponsor)
Dates and verification
- Application deadline
- March 31, 2027 (Cohort intake 2027)
- Last source review
- 2026-10-15
Important verification note
Facts reflect official Amsterdam Tech documentation reviewed 2026-10-15. Admissions, funding allocations, and eligibility thresholds are evaluated by the university.
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