Public AI Fellow, Open Source
Metagov is a 501(c)3 nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory focused on community sovereignty, network governance, and statecraft in the age of AI. It cultivates tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age, working with researchers, practitioners, and online communities (e.g., DAOs, online governance experiments) rather than traditional commercial clients.
Projects
About Metagov
Metagov is a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory, founded in 2019 out of a Harvard Law School seminar on "Governing Virtual Worlds" and spun out as an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit in January 2020. Its mission is to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age, working toward a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable. The organization operates through three interdependent pillars: Community (a membership-based network of researchers and practitioners), Research (grant-funded projects led by Research Directors), and Operations (participatory organizational infrastructure). Metagov runs a weekly research seminar, community calls, and orientation sessions, and incubates projects such as DAOstar (a standards body for the DAO ecosystem), KOI Pond/GovBase (a research dataset project), Interoperable Deliberative Tools, and Public AI (focused on a new political economy for AI). It serves researchers, practitioners, online communities, DAOs, and protocol ecosystems, and is funded by a range of foundations and crypto-ecosystem organizations including the Ethereum Foundation, Filecoin Foundation, Optimism Collective, Mina Foundation, Arbitrum, Aragon, ENS, and NEAR, among others.
Skills
About the Role
This community-and-coordination role supports Public AI's open-source AI strategy through relationship building, convenings, project management, contributor onboarding, and ecosystem engagement.
Requirements
- Existing relationships in the open-source AI community
- Strong project management and coordination instincts
- Comfort running and maintaining a CRM or equivalent system
- Genuine community-building energy
- Working familiarity with the open-source AI stack, including foundation models, inference, fine-tuning, evaluation, and open weights
- Familiarity with AI governance, digital sovereignty, and openness debates
- Comfort convening and elevating others rather than self-promotion
- Bonus experience organizing an open-source community, foundation, working group, or recurring convening
- Bonus experience across multiple open-source projects
- Bonus existing platform or following in the open-source AI world
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain relationships with open-source AI builders, maintainers, and contributors
- Operate and maintain a CRM of open-source AI contacts
- Design and implement convenings, working sessions, and shared collaboration spaces
- Project-manage cross-organizational collaborations and track commitments
- Connect people and projects through targeted introductions
- Strengthen open-source presence at conferences and in community spaces
- Support contributor onboarding and community engagement on GitHub