AgenTrust Fellow (Inaugural Cohort)

OPAQUE is the Confidential AI company.

Born from UC Berkeley’s RISELab, we solve the core challenge blocking AI adoption at scale: security concerns about data leaks or compliance violations.

OPAQUE provides verifiable privacy and governance for AI so organizations can safely run models, agents, and workflows on their most sensitive data.

Its Confidential AI platform delivers verifiable runtime governance backed by cryptographic proof that data, models, and agent actions remain private, governed, and compliant with approved policies throughout every AI workflow.

This extends traditional data governance tools with real runtime verification, enabling teams to responsibly deploy AI using their most valuable proprietary data, and move from pilot to production 4-5X faster.

Customers and partners include ServiceNow, Anthropic, Encore Capital, Accenture, and leaders across high tech, financial services, insurance, and healthcare.

The AgenTrust Fellowship is a six-month, paid, part-time program for engineers, researchers, and governance practitioners to help build the open standards for verifiable AI agents. Fellows work alongside OPAQUE Chief Platform Officer and Agent Governance Toolkit creator Imran Siddique, contributing to the open agentrust-io ecosystem: TRACE, Confidential MCP, Confidential A2A, Agent Manifest, Model Manifest (Weight Custody), and AGT.

It is a community and standards program, not an internship, research grant, or hiring pipeline. Fellows keep their current role or studies and contribute about 20 hours a week.