AgenTrust Fellowship to Advance Open Standards for Verifiable AI Agents 2026

The AgenTrust Fellowship is a six-month paid, part-time fellowship for engineers, researchers, and governance practitioners to help build open infrastructure for verifiable AI. The first cohort will include three to five fellows and begin in September 2026, with a workload of about 20 hours per week and eligibility for a stipend. Fellows contribute to the AgenTrust open-source ecosystem, working on open standards for agent identity, confidential computing, and runtime verification, and produce a public technical artifact by the end of the term.

Stipend of $30,000 to $50,000 for the six-month term.

Eligible applicants include security engineers who can contribute to containment of agentic systems, PhD students and postdocs in formal verification or distributed systems, and AI governance and compliance practitioners who can translate auditors' needs into machine-executable policy.

Applicants are selected based on a technical proposal detailing how they will contribute to the AgenTrust ecosystem; visit the official page and apply via the provided application link.