Deadline Desk: 49 Open Opportunities for IIT Students, Verified

This page is the thing we wished existed in second year: every fellowship, off-campus internship, government intake and prize competition an IIT student can actually apply to, on one page, sorted by the date it closes. Not by when someone posted it. Not by which aggregator paid for the slot. Every row below was read on the organisation's own website this week, and every apply link was fetched and confirmed live before publishing. If a deadline has passed, the row is gone.

Move first on these. Google's Application Engineering internship for summer 2027 closes on Monday 15 September — it is, as of this week, the only 2027 undergraduate internship Google has open in India. ISRO's Scientist/Engineer SC drive — 99 Electronics, 52 Mechanical and 21 Computer Science posts at Level 10, minimum basic pay ₹56,100 a month — closes Tuesday 16 September at 11.55 PM. And GATE 2027 regular registration ends 27 September; read on for why that one date is really five.

The door that closed on IITs this year

The single most-searched summer research programme in any IIT hostel is Mitacs Globalink — twelve funded weeks at a Canadian university. Its 2027 deadline is Wednesday 16 September, 1:00 PM Pacific. But the India eligibility block on Mitacs's own page now carries a sentence that changes the whole calculus: "At this time, applicants from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are not eligible to participate in the 2027 GRI program." Mitacs does not say why. If you are at an IIT, do not spend your week on it. If you are reading this from an NIT, IIIT, BITS or a state university, you have four days and a field with fewer of the usual competitors in it.

Two other names that IITians reflexively type in are quietly not there this year either. Khorana, the DBT-IUSSTF biotech summer in the United States, still shows its 2024 deadline on the IUSSTF page and its partner says the programme is on hold. DAAD WISE, the German summer internship, has vanished from DAAD India's own scholarship list. We list neither as open, and we will say so the week they come back.

Research and fellowships

The good news in this lane is that the European labs are open now and want Indian undergraduates. The Max Planck computer-science institutes — MPI-SWS, MPI-INF, MPI-IS, MPI-SP — run a fully funded 12–14 week summer internship with a standing 1 November deadline and no nationality filter. Summer@EPFL pays CHF 1,800 a month plus travel and closes on the Sunday nearest 1 December, which this year is 29 November; its engineering sibling, EPFL E3, opens in October and closes 1 November. ETH Zurich's summer fellowship (CHF 4,000 for two months) opens its window at the start of November. Caltech SURF opens 1 November with an $8,110 award, but you must find your own Caltech mentor first — start emailing now, not in November.

Domestically, the Science Academies' Summer Research Fellowship 2027 — two months with a scientist anywhere in India, train fare and a monthly fellowship — is open until 30 November and takes second- and third-year B.Tech students; it needs one teacher's email for a recommendation, so ask before the semester gets busy. Reliance Foundation's UG scholarship (up to ₹2 lakh, first-years only, household income under ₹15 lakh) and its PG scholarship (up to ₹6 lakh, first-year M.Tech/M.Sc with GATE 550+ or CGPA 7.5+) both close 5 October.

For those graduating: Knight-Hennessy at Stanford and Chevening both close 6 October, Commonwealth Master's and PhD on 20 October (nomination runs through the Ministry of Education, which may set its own earlier date), and Gates Cambridge on 8 December or 6 January depending on your course. One honest line for PhD scholars: PMRF has no live cycle. The site says every sanctioned seat is filled and further approval is awaited. We will not print a deadline that does not exist.

Industry and government

The off-campus quant door is open — at some firms. Hudson River Trading prints its intern pay on the posting: a weekly base of 5,800 USD in New York, 7,650 SGD in Singapore, 4,350 GBP in London, plus housing and meals. Two Sigma pays $4,900 to $5,500 a week by degree. Tower quotes $3,500–5,700 a week in New York and Chicago and, closer to home, has a six-month AI/ML internship in Gurgaon from January 2027 that suits a final-year or dual-degree student. Jane Street Hong Kong, IMC Hong Kong, Jump Singapore and Flow Traders Hong Kong all take direct applications for summer 2027, and Flow's December–January slot fits the Indian winter break. In Gurugram, Graviton posted 2027-graduate QR and SWE roles on 1 September that you can apply to without a placement cell, and Quadeye's 2028-batch intern postings are live.

And shut at others. Optiver's Amsterdam internship page says it plainly: "For applicants based in India, our entry route is via the placement office internship hiring season (July/August)." D. E. Shaw India's careers page describes its internship as campus-driven across 53 colleges, with no direct posting. If your institute's placement cell did not get you in front of those two in August, the next window is next August. Worth knowing before you burn a cool-off period on an online assessment.

GATE 2027 is five deadlines wearing one date. Regular registration on IIT Madras's portal closes 27 September (5 October with a ₹500 late fee). That single score is the entry ticket to DRDO Scientist B (RAC's 31 August notice says the 2027 vacancies come "in the next few months"), GAIL Executive Trainee (its own window opens 17 February 2027), Coal India Management Trainee, and the M.Tech and PhD intakes at every IIT. Miss 27 September and you have opted out of all of it for a year.

Also live in government: ISRO's Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad wants 33 JRFs and 15 Research Associates by 30 September (JRF ₹37,000 a month plus HRA, but you need a NET or GATE score in hand); UPSC's Combined Geo-Scientist exam — 127 posts at GSI and CGWB, open to M.Sc. Physics, Geology, Geophysics and Chemistry — closes 22 September; JAM 2027, run by IIT Kharagpur this year, closes 12 October; and the UPSC calendar puts the Engineering Services 2027 notification on 16 September with applications until 6 October. TIFR's GS-2027 advert is not out yet; last year's portal opened 27 September, so expect it within the fortnight.

Competitions and open source

The money in this lane is real this month. Schneider Electric's Yuva Yodha energy-tech hackathon has a ₹20 lakh grand prize, ₹15 lakh for the runner-up and ₹10 lakh for third, with pre-placement interviews for the top ten teams; ideas are due 4 October. Smart India Hackathon 2026 pays ₹1,50,000 per problem statement won and closes nominations on 30 September — but it runs through your institute's SPOC, so the internal deadline is earlier; ask this week. On Kaggle, the ARC Prize is sitting on $850,000 with an entry deadline of 26 October, RSNA's knee-imaging challenge has $77,000 across two tracks (entry 15 October), and two smaller ones — Biohub cell tracking ($60,000, entry 22 September) and Kaggriculture ($50,000, entry 23 September) — close within the fortnight. Note that Kaggle's entry deadline, when you must accept the rules, comes a week before the final-submission date; we list the earlier one.

For builders: Solar Decathlon India takes team registrations until 13 November or until its 250 slots fill, Formula Bharat's Dynamix 2027 registers until 21 October (the main event is already full), and Hult Prize qualifiers run through February with no hard date. The open-source calendar is between seasons: GSoC 2027 has not published a timeline (last year contributors applied 16–31 March), LFX Mentorship lists its spring projects in mid-January, and Outreachy's December cohort closed in August. Hacktoberfest starts 1 October, reformatted this year as one-day in-person fests rather than pull-request counting.

How this list is built, and what it gets wrong

Five sweeps ran this week — international research programmes, Indian and prestige fellowships, off-campus industry postings, government and national-lab intakes, and competitions — and each row on this page was read on the organisation's own domain. Aggregators (Internshala, Unstop, Buddy4Study, LinkedIn cards) were used as leads at most and never as the source of a date or a pay figure. Company postings were read from the firm's own applicant-tracking board, so the Greenhouse and Workday links above are the same ones the company's careers page sends you to. Every link was then fetched again by script before publishing.

What it gets wrong, honestly: we could not read the BARC OCES portal, the AFCAT site (503 every time), the Indian Army entry portal (CAPTCHA-gated), or most of the IIT summer-internship pages for outside students — Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Ropar, Palakkad, Mandi and Jodhpur all returned 404 or an empty shell for their 2027 programmes, which almost certainly means they are not announced yet rather than gone. Amazon ML Summer School, Google STEP India and JPMorgan Code for Good India have no 2027 posting on their own sites as of today. If you find one we missed, tell us and it goes in next Saturday's rebuild.

Two rules carry over from our IIT recruitment tracker: rows are filtered on the closing date, never the posting date, and when a programme has no live cycle we say so rather than reprint last year's deadline as if it were this year's. This page is rebuilt every Saturday at the same URL and is not archived weekly. Bookmark the URL, not a row.

Frequently asked questions

Which opportunities for IIT students close this week?

Google's Application Engineering internship (summer 2027, India) closes 15 September; ISRO's Scientist/Engineer SC recruitment — 172 posts plus PRL — closes 16 September; Mitacs Globalink 2027 closes 16 September but excludes IIT students this year; UPSC Combined Geo-Scientist closes 22 September; GATE 2027 regular registration closes 27 September.

Can IIT students apply to Mitacs Globalink 2027?

No. Mitacs's own India eligibility page states that applicants from the Indian Institutes of Technology are not eligible for the 2027 Globalink Research Internship. Students at NITs, IIITs, BITS and other listed institutions can still apply until 16 September 2026.

Which quant firms accept off-campus applications from India?

Hudson River Trading, Jane Street, IMC, Jump, Two Sigma, Tower Research, Flow Traders, Da Vinci, Graviton and Quadeye all have summer-2027 or 2027-graduate postings that take direct applications. Optiver routes India-based applicants through campus placement offices only, and D. E. Shaw India describes its internship as campus-driven.

Is PMRF open right now?

No. The PMRF website states that all seats sanctioned by the ministry have been filled and further approval for admissions is awaited. There is no live application cycle as of 12 September 2026.

How often is this page updated?

Every Saturday, at the same URL. Expired deadlines are removed, new openings added, and every apply link is re-checked. The date at the top of the page is the date of the last verification.

Rebuilt every Saturday. Deadlines are read from the organisation's own page, never an aggregator, and every link is fetched before publishing. Spotted an opportunity we missed, or a date that has moved? Tell us and it goes into the next rebuild.

Every open door,sorted by closing date.

OPJEMS 2026

Application Engineering Intern, Summer 2027 — India

IISc ICER Project Associate (Power Electronics)

Mitacs Globalink Research Internship 2027

ISRO Scientist/Engineer 'SC' — ISRO:ICRB:03(EMC):2026

UPSC Combined Geo-Scientist Examination 2027

Kaggle: Biohub Cell Tracking During Development

Kaggle: Kaggriculture

GATE 2027 registration

ISRO SAC JRF / RA / Project Scientist-I — SAC:02:2026

Smart India Hackathon 2026

Max Planck School Matter to Life — URO 2027

Yuva Yodha Energy Tech Hackathon 2026

Reliance Foundation Postgraduate Scholarships 2026-27

Reliance Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships 2026-27

Chevening Scholarships 2027-28 (India)

Knight-Hennessy Scholars 2027

JAM 2027 registration

OIST Research Internship – Spring 2027

Kaggle: RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection

Commonwealth Master's Scholarships 2027-28

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships 2027-28

Dynamix 2027 (Formula Bharat)

Kaggle: ARC Prize 2026 (ARC-AGI-3)

Max Planck CS Institutes Summer Internship 2027

Solar Decathlon India 2026-27

Science Academies' Summer Research Fellowship Programme (SRFP) 2027

Gates Cambridge Scholarship 2027-28

Quantitative Trader — Summer Internship 2027 (Hong Kong)

Software Engineer — Summer Internship 2027 (Hong Kong)

Quantitative Trader Intern 2027 (Hong Kong)

Quant Research & Trading Internship — Summer 2027

Software Engineering Internship — Summer 2027

Quant Trader/Researcher Intern — Summer 2027 (NY/Chicago)

Intern — AI/ML, Gurgaon (6 months from Jan 2027)

Campus Quantitative Researcher Intern — Singapore

Quantitative Trading Internship — 2027 Start, Amsterdam

Software Engineer — Intern (Asia)

Quantitative Researcher Intern — 2027 Summer, New York

Trading Intern — Hong Kong

Quant Trading Intern — Amsterdam (2028 graduates)

Quantitative Researcher — 2027 Graduate, Gurugram

Software Engineer — 2027 Graduate, Gurugram

Intern — Quant Strategist, 2028 Batch (Gurugram)

Software Engineering Intern — India

Software Engineer, Intern — Bengaluru

2027 Summer Analyst — Global Investment Research, Mumbai

Hult Prize 2027

MLH Fellowship

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