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Do you want to build cutting-edge solutions that serve your mission and the public? Together, we can. We’d love to hear from you.

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How it works

PIF recruits strategists and technologists in fields including: AI, software engineering and cloud infrastructure, data analysis, product management, customer experience and design, and digital strategy. Fellows have worked with 45+ federal agencies to date.

Fellows are mid-to-senior career level leaders, and serve as senior advisor to champion government modernization. They work on building agency innovation capabilities, tackling hard problems, shaping smarter policy, and/or delivering technology alongside talented and forward-thinking career federal leaders.

Agency participation criteria

Strong project proposals demonstrate:
  • Problems of critical agency and/or national priority
  • Clear line to positive impact, benefit, or customer experience for the public
  • Early-stage initiatives with room for fellows to shape, define, and lead
  • Fellows work directly at the leadership level of programs/agencies
  • Funding availability to pay for cost of a fellow

Project Priorities

Supporting the talent surge on AI and AI enabling work.

Other examples of Issues of national priority include: economic, healthcare, immigration, infrastructure, strengthening national security, and championing America’s values and human rights.

Partnering with the PIF Program

Talent and selection: PIF runs a robust external recruitment program. PIF requires applicants to pass skills & behavioral interviews before requesting agencies interview and select a fellow.

Interagency Agreements (IAA): GSA hires fellows as full-time federal employees at the GS-15, Step 1 level in their first year, and assigns them to agencies. The PIF program provides services to the requesting agency through an IAA. Our standard agreements are non-severable, reimbursable, services agreements.

Work location: This is a Washington, DC based fellowship.

Duration: The PIF fellowship term lasts one year, with an option to be considered for a one year term extension.

Timeline of major milestones: Between project selection and project start date, agency partners will participate in key activities such as filling out a Request for Information (RFI) and obtaining internal reviews for General Terms & Conditions (GT&C) paperwork.

Targeted start date for the next cohort of PIF projects is March 2026.

Presidential Innovation Fellows Timeline

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Trusted by agency leaders

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PIF has been a remarkable opportunity to undertake public service on discrete, impactful federal projects. The experience was rewarding because I not only used my professional experience as an operator, investor, and entrepreneur to address large-scale government challenges; I also learned a tremendous amount about how our government operates. I contributed, but I also learned a great deal.

Sarayu Srinivasan, 2019-2020 PIF, detailed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Last updated: Sep 29, 2025

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