Public AI Research Engineer
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will work hands-on across product, frontend, backend, and open-source community work. You will track and integrate components of the open-source AI stack, ship UI and backend changes, prototype new capabilities, and improve repository documentation and contributor workflows. You will identify UX issues, implement fixes, and help maintain a coherent multi-repo platform. You must be comfortable moving across React/Svelte frontends and Python/TypeScript/Go backends, and be available for occasional team workshops.
Requirements
- Demonstrated open-source contributions or maintainership
- Comfort across frontend (React, Svelte) and backend (Python, TypeScript, Go)
- Familiarity with OpenWebUI, vLLM, LiteLLM, MCP or similar
- Strong product instincts
- Ability to ship quickly and own what you ship
- Ability to travel occasionally for workshops
- Maintainership or significant contributions in AI/ML or developer tools (nice to have)
- Experience launching or running open-source projects or communities (nice to have)
- Background in public-interest technology or research infrastructure (nice to have)
- Track record of turning multi-repo systems into coherent platforms (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Track and integrate the open-source AI stack
- Ship product features across frontend and backend
- Build glue code and debug inference backends
- Drive open-source presence through clear issues, docs, and reviews
- Prototype new capabilities such as routing transparency and multimodal support
- Notice and fix user experience issues
- Attend occasional team workshops