Public AI Fellow
Metagov is a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory building tools, standards, and communities for digital self-governance, network governance, and public-interest AI.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Metagov
Metagov cultivates tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Its activities span community, research, and participatory operations, including governance infrastructure, DAO standards, online-community tools, knowledge infrastructure, datasets, seminars, and public-interest AI initiatives. Metagov was founded in 2019 and officially spun out as an independent nonprofit in January 2020.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Support the growth of Public AI Switzerland, advance the Public AI Inference Utility and Apertus deployment, build relationships across Swiss public institutions and industry, contribute to AI dialogue and summit preparation, and provide political and operational advice for consortium-building.
Requirements
- Strong operational instincts and ability to coordinate complex workstreams.
- Existing connections or credibility within Switzerland's AI, research, policy, or public sector communities.
- Familiarity with Swiss technology, policy, and research ecosystems or ability to grow such a network.
- Working familiarity with open source AI topics including foundation models, inference infrastructure, and open weights.
- Working familiarity with AI governance, digital sovereignty, and public infrastructure policy.
- Interest in AI, geopolitics, public infrastructure, or technology governance.
- Experience in diplomacy, international technology collaborations, foundation models, or national AI strategies is a bonus.
- Working proficiency in German, French, or Italian alongside English is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Support the operational growth of Public AI Switzerland and coordinate with founding partners and cantonal and federal stakeholders.
- Advance the Public AI Inference Utility and support deployment of Apertus.
- Build trust and relationships across Switzerland's public sector, research institutions, and AI industry.
- Align Swiss interests with an international coalition focused on public AI.
- Contribute to the Swiss National AI Dialogue and related public deliberation efforts.
- Support preparation for Public AI's participation in the Swiss AI Summit, including programming and partner engagement.
- Provide political and operational advice for consortium-building efforts.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and Public AI Switzerland cooperative members.