AgenTrust Fellowship to Advance Open Standards for Verifiable AI Agents 2026 – YOA

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 assist construct the open infrastructure behind verifiable AI.

The first cohort will embody three to 5 fellows and start in September 2026, and it doesn’t require chosen individuals to give up their jobs. Selected individuals will work alongside OPAQUE Chief Platform Officer and Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) creator Imran Siddique, contributing straight to the open AgenTrust ecosystem and serving to advance the following technology of verifiable AI requirements.

Over six months, fellows will contribute throughout the AgenTrust open-supply ecosystem, tackling actual-world challenges in AI governance, confidential computing, and runtime verification. Their work could embody advancing open requirements for agent identification, defending delicate fashions and information throughout execution, and growing cryptographic proof that enables enterprises and regulators to independently confirm how AI methods behaved throughout open AgenTrust tasks resembling TRACE, Agent Manifest, Confidential MCP, and the AGT.

Benefits

• Stipend $30,000 to $50,000 per fellow for the time period.
• Fellows will obtain direct mentorship from Imran Siddique whereas contributing code, specs, and technical steerage throughout the AgenTrust open-supply ecosystem. Each fellow will full a public technical artifact, resembling a analysis paper, convention presentation, or engineering weblog.

Eligibility

• Security engineers who’ve pink-teamed agentic methods and wish to construct the containment layer, not simply doc the issue.
• PhD college students and postdocs in formal verification, distributed methods, or attestation.
• AI governance and compliance practitioners who can flip what auditors ask for into machine-executable coverage.

Application

The first cohort begins in September 2026. Applicants will likely be chosen based mostly on a technical proposal demonstrating how they plan to contribute to the AgenTrust ecosystem.

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For extra info, go to AgenTrust Fellowship.