Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore's early careers programme places undergraduate and postgraduate students in two structures: a full year in industry, or a shorter placement of 3 to 9 months. 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.

Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, building sequencing technology that reads DNA and RNA in real time as a strand passes through the nanopore, rather than requiring a full run to complete before analysis starts. 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.

Not right now. Oxford Nanopore Technologies has no internship or graduate roles listed today; new postings appear here as the firm opens them.

Applications to Oxford Nanopore Technologies go through the firm's own careers site, one application per posting, each expecting a CV and cover letter written for that role.