Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Start dates are flexible and set at the offer stage based on the length of placement rather than one fixed intake date. As of this review, applications for the 2026 Internship Programme have already closed, with new roles posted to the careers page and LinkedIn as they open.

Because there is no single advertised annual deadline and starts are offer-driven rather than fixed, tracking the page between cycles matters more here than at firms that run one published autumn window – a listing can open and close before a candidate who checks only once a season notices it.

Its palm-sized MinION device, launched in 2015 as a sequencer usable outside a conventional lab, remains on sale alongside population-scale instruments built on the same underlying chemistry. An early-career hire here works on hardware and informatics for one continuous technology platform spanning pocket-sized to industrial-scale use, rather than a single fixed-format instrument line.