Deadline: August 29, 2026
Applications are invited for the AgenTrust Fellowship to Advance Open Standards for Verifiable AI Agents 2026. AgenTrust Fellowship is a six-month paid, part-time (20 hrs/week) program for engineers, researchers, and governance practitioners to help build the open infrastructure behind verifiable AI.
The first cohort will include three to five fellows and begin in September 2026, and it does not require selected participants to quit their jobs. Selected participants will work alongside OPAQUE Chief Platform Officer and Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) creator Imran Siddique, contributing directly to the open AgenTrust ecosystem and helping advance the next generation of verifiable AI standards.
Over six months, fellows will contribute across the AgenTrust open-source ecosystem, tackling real-world challenges in AI governance, confidential computing, and runtime verification. Their work may include advancing open standards for agent identity, protecting sensitive models and data during execution, and developing cryptographic evidence that allows enterprises and regulators to independently verify how AI systems behaved across open AgenTrust projects such as TRACE, Agent Manifest, Confidential MCP, and the AGT.
Benefits
- Stipend $30,000 to $50,000 per fellow for the term.
- Fellows will receive direct mentorship from Imran Siddique while contributing code, specifications, and technical guidance across the AgenTrust open-source ecosystem. Each fellow will complete a public technical artifact, such as a research paper, conference presentation, or engineering blog.
Eligibility
- Security engineers who have red-teamed agentic systems and want to build the containment layer, not just document the problem.
- PhD students and postdocs in formal verification, distributed systems, or attestation.
- AI governance and compliance practitioners who can turn what auditors ask for into machine-executable policy.
Application
The first cohort begins in September 2026. Applicants will be selected based on a technical proposal demonstrating how they plan to contribute to the AgenTrust ecosystem.
For more information, visit AgenTrust Fellowship.
