Head of Open Source Ecosystem

About the role

You’ll own Sentient’s relationship with the global open-source AI community. This includes developers building open models, tools, agents, data, and evals. You’ll be a credible champion for open-source AI as a whole, earn the trust of builders across the ecosystem, and bring the best of them and their projects into Sentient’s orbit.

What You'll Do

• Own the Foundation’s community and ecosystem strategy for open-source AI broadly.
• Champion great open models, tools, agents, and evals across the ecosystem, with Sentient’s own stack (ROMA, ODS, EvoSkills, Arena, OML) as one important part of it.
• Stand up the programs, content, and team that get developers from zero to shipping.
• Champion open-source AI through writing and storytelling, such as tutorials, docs, blog posts, demos, and talks that help developers build with the best of the open ecosystem, including Sentient’s own contributions (ROMA, ODS, OML) where they’re the right tool.
• Support and help drive Sentient's open-source AI grants / investment program. Source promising projects and builders, vetting technical quality and fit, and shepherding funded teams as they build on the Stack.
• Lead and scale the developer community across Discord, GitHub, and X.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years in developer relations, community, or ecosystem roles, ideally in open-source AI/ML, data, or infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on technical ability. You can read and write code (Python and/or TypeScript), work directly with agent frameworks and the open stack (ROMA, ODS, EvoSkills, Arena, OML), and go deep enough technically to earn the respect of serious open-source developers.
• 4+ years building open-source software yourself, with a deep personal network across the open-source AI developer community. You already know many of the developers, maintainers, and projects we want to reach, and they know you.
• A track record of recruiting and convening senior people (founders, advisors, council members, or thought leaders) around a mission, and of being a recognized voice in an open-source or developer community.
• A working understanding of LLMs, AI agents, and agent frameworks, and the ability to explain complex technical ideas simply through writing, demos, and talks.
• A public portfolio of developer content, eg: tutorials, talks, demos, OSS contributions, or community building.
• Acknowledgeable technical judgment for evaluating projects, for sourcing and vetting grant and investment candidates.
• Comfort with, or genuine curiosity about, Web3 / token incentive mechanics and on-chain interoperability.
• A high level of user empathy, strong written communication, and a bias toward shipping.

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source AI/ML projects.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks, model fine-tuning, evaluation/benchmarking, or decentralized/crypto ecosystems.
• Experience running or participating in a grants, accelerator, or developer-fund program.
• A track record of measurably growing a developer ecosystem.

Why join

• Build and lead the community and ecosystem function for an open AGI network at the ground floor.
• Work across the full open-source AI + Web3 stack (OML, ROMA, ODS, EvoSkills, Arena).
• Help direct where grant capital flows.
• Help a 2M+ community build and own the next wave of AI agents.