Public AI Fellow, Open Source

This community-and-coordination role supports Public AI's open-source AI strategy through relationship building, convenings, project management, contributor onboarding, and ecosystem engagement.

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

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