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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 science and analytics, product management, customer experience and design, digital strategy, and change management. 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: climate crisis, racial equity and civil rights, economic relief, healthcare, immigration system improvement, infrastructure, strengthening national security workforce, rebuilding democratic alliances across the globe, 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 and telework: This is a Washington, DC based fellowship. In coordination with the host agency, the fellowship supports telework options.

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 July 2025.

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.

Our nation’s challenges are our biggest opportunities.

Our solutions need leaders like you.

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