Project NANDA Fellowship Program
Early Career AI Fellow
Work directly under a Research Fellow, contributing to real infrastructure that gets presented at events and feeds into published research.
About Project NANDA
Project NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) is building the foundational infrastructure for an Internet of AI Agents. The existing internet was designed for humans — DNS resolves domain names typed by people, HTTP serves documents to browsers, PKI authenticates websites for users. None of it handles billions of autonomous agents that need to discover each other, verify capabilities, and transact in milliseconds without a human in the loop.
NANDA's architecture spans discovery (a federated index for agents), identity (cryptographically signed capability documents), federation (a distributed registry across 15+ institutions), and interoperability (native support for MCP, A2A, and NLWeb). NEST is the platform where agents are deployed, registered, and orchestrated on this stack.
Position overview
You'll work directly under a Research Fellow, contributing to real infrastructure that gets presented at events and feeds into published research. This isn't an internship with busy-work — you'll be writing code that runs in production and building things that matter.
The scope is more defined than our other fellow roles. You'll have a senior person to check in with, clearer tasks to start from, and room to grow into more ownership over time. What we need from you is the ability to pick something up fast, execute cleanly, and ask good questions when you're stuck.
What you'll own
- Feature development and bugfixes on NEST and surrounding tooling, under guidance from a Research Fellow
- Building small demos, integrations, and internal tools as needed
- Writing tests, documentation, and the unglamorous-but-necessary parts of good software
- Pair-building with senior fellows on bigger problems — you'll learn a lot by being in the room
- Gradually taking on more ownership as you build context and trust
What We're Looking For
- No YoE requirement — final-year student, bootcamp grad, or self-taught. We care that you can write code and show up with curiosity
- Solid grasp of basics in at least one language — functions, data structures, APIs
- You use Git (commits, branches, PRs) — non-negotiable
- You actively use AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent)
- Some exposure to developer tooling — terminal, error logs, debugging
- You ask questions when stuck rather than spinning for hours — but you try first
- You're hungry to learn and absorb quickly
Nice to Have
- You've shipped something — a side project, open-source contribution, anything real
- Exposure to web development, APIs, or backend basics
- Experience with AI tools beyond coding — prompting, LLM-powered projects, agentic systems
- You've read about NANDA and have thoughts on it
Communication & collaboration
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to give and receive feedback in code reviews
- Reliability in a remote-first team
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