AI Project Manager, Ethereum Foundation
Non-profit organisation supporting Ethereum and related technologies
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Non-profit organisation supporting Ethereum and related technologies
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To do what is best for Ethereum’s long-term success.
Role
Who you are
- To excel in this role, you should have extensive hands-on experience building on Ethereum and/or AI—whether smart contracts, dApps, infrastructure, or AI tools, finetuning, inference, evaluations—and strong, well-informed opinions about how the AI ecosystem on Ethereum should evolve
- We’re looking for someone who can easily switch between high-level strategy and hands-on problem solving
- You should feel confident working closely with technical teams, understanding how things are built, and contributing to decisions about how systems are designed and improved—with a data-driven mindset and good judgment
- Bonus points if you have experience managing resource allocation tradeoffs, leading technical initiatives across teams, or successfully identifying and acting on emerging technology trends before they become mainstream
- Deep interest in AI: agent systems, and decentralized protocols, with an understanding of why a trust layer such as Ethereum matters for AI
- Background in Ethereum or Web3 ecosystems: Familiar with how Ethereum works and the broader ecosystem around it, with experience engaging with technologies like smart contracts, scaling solutions, or community standards
- Familiarity with AI-agent protocols (A2A, MCP, x402) or adjacent standards, comfort learning new technical domains quickly
- Excellent communication and coordination skills: able to convene diverse stakeholders and build consensus in open forums
- Mindset: high ownership, collaborative, community-first; excited to work across ambiguous and fast-moving problem spaces
What the job involves
- The EF launched a new dAI Team focused on making Ethereum the global, decentralized settlement and coordination layer for AI
- The team will define standards, support ecosystem builders, and lay the groundwork for open, censorship-resistant, and verifiable AI systems
- As AI Project Manager, you will help align protocol improvements, ecosystem initiatives, and external collaborations
- This is a hybrid role that combines technical understanding with strategic coordination: part researcher, part program manager, part developer relations
- You’ll track what’s happening across the decentralized AI landscape, support projects building on Ethereum, and coordinate efforts so the community advances together rather than in silos
- This coordination will include particular initiatives led by the dAI team, such as the recent ERC-8004 proposal, while also shaping the next wave of work
- Areas of focus for coordination efforts include:
- Standardizing agent-to-agent protocols on Ethereum and aligning with adjacent specifications
- Defining primitives for verifiable inference, decentralized compute, privacy and user-owned data
- Coordinating across L2s, infrastructure projects, and applications/agents builders so that adoption compounds
- Coordinate research and standards development (e.g., for agent payments, trust, privacy, A2A/MCP integration, open models)
- Engage with teams building AI infra and applications on Ethereum: understand their architectures, identify gaps, and connect them with EF resources
- Organize and facilitate working groups, design discussions, and workshops across EF, L2s, and ecosystem partners
- Synthesize community feedback and help shape specifications into stable proposals (EIPs/ERCs, Linux Foundation WGs, etc.)
- Collaborate with EF Ecosystem teams to support high-leverage decentralized AI projects
- Map the decentralized AI landscape (agents, inference networks, data protocols, open source and web3-specific models and frameworks) and maintain an ecosystem view of active efforts
Our take
Likening itself to a “community of teams” rather than a traditional organisation, Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit that supports the development of Ethereum (the platform and programme language supporting the building and publishing of decentralised apps) and other related technologies.
Boasting the achievement of being the third highest crowd-funded project of all time, its open-source platform aims to decentralise the web, claiming “Ethereum is how the Internet was supposed to work”. The company has captured the attention of Microsoft and was incorporated in Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and services.
Acquiring significant funding over the years Ethereum is definitely one to watch. Releasing consistent new development and nurturing its long standing projects, the Ethereum Foundation has a strong base of values that have been kept on since the beginning. It'll be exciting to see how it evolves as the web world does.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Remote-first: our team is distributed across the globe (with option of offices in e.g. Berlin or Boulder)
- Flat hierarchy: independence in day-to-day work
- Optional travel throughout the year: Ethereum conferences, research workshops, annual Devcon event
- Collaborations with academia & industry: we maintain collaborations on high-impact projects with the industry and grant relationships with academia
- Flexible PTO
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Joseph Lubin
(Co-founder)Founded ConsenSys in Oct 2014 where they also act as CEO.
Mihai Alisie
(Co-founder)Founded AKASHA Project in 2015 and Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
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