AI Project Manager

Ethereum Foundation • San Francisco, CA

102d

About The Position

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is a global non-profit dedicated to supporting Ethereum’s long-term success. Our mission is to allocate resources to critical projects, advocate for Ethereum within the ecosystem, and promote its vision to the world. 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, and coordinating across L2s, infrastructure projects, and applications/agents builders so that adoption compounds.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience building on Ethereum and/or AI—whether smart contracts, dApps, infrastructure, or AI tools, finetuning, inference, evaluations.
• Strong, well-informed opinions about how the AI ecosystem on Ethereum should evolve.
• Ability to switch between high-level strategy and hands-on problem solving.
• Confidence working closely with technical teams, understanding how things are built, and contributing to decisions about how systems are designed and improved.
• Data-driven mindset and good judgment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing resource allocation tradeoffs.
• Leading technical initiatives across teams.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere is possible.
• Most synchronous time from 2pm UTC onwards.
• Access to the local Ethereum hub (Ethereum House SF) for co-working and community connection.
• Opportunity to travel to events (Devcon, Devconnect, AI × Ethereum workshops).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level