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Not jobs.
Contributions
that matter.

RESTORE doesn't have a HR department. It doesn't have a payroll system. Some of these roles are compensated through corporate partnerships. Some are rewarded in Sovereign Credits. Some are the kind of work people do because they're alive and capable and the world needs it done. All of them are essential.

38

open roles

12

disciplines

locations — it's P2P

0

bosses

Build the ungovernable No centre, no chokepoint Contribute compute, earn sovereignty Root access to your own life Open source. Public domain. Fork freely. The machine runs on your dependency Build the ungovernable No centre, no chokepoint Contribute compute, earn sovereignty Root access to your own life Open source. Public domain. Fork freely. The machine runs on your dependency

What needs
building.

How compensation works: Roles marked SC are rewarded in Sovereign Credits — the only currency created by verified real-world action. Roles marked Paid are funded through corporate partnerships and city council contracts as they come online. Roles marked Both have a path to paid once the network reaches sustainability. Nobody here is getting rich. That's not the point. The point is building something that lasts.

P2P Network Engineer

engineering SC + Paid
distributed / remote full-time preferred libp2p · IPFS · Nostr

The most foundational engineering role in the entire project. You are building the network that cannot be shut down. libp2p peer discovery, gossip protocol design, IPFS pinning strategy, Nostr-style signed event relay architecture. This is the spine of RESTORE.

You are not building a startup's backend. You are building infrastructure that should still be running in 50 years regardless of what any company, government, or court decides to do about it. That requires a different kind of engineering discipline — one that prioritises resilience over elegance and survivability over speed.

what you'll build

  • libp2p peer discovery and connection management layer
  • Gossip protocol for SC ledger event propagation
  • IPFS integration for photo storage and agent memory
  • Nostr-style signed event protocol (EventKind schema)
  • Node capability negotiation and routing logic
  • Network health monitoring and self-healing mechanisms
  • Distributed SQLite replication (CR-SQLite / Turso)
  • Phase 1 → Phase 2 migration tooling

what you bring

  • Deep experience with libp2p, IPFS, or similar P2P systems
  • TypeScript or Rust (both preferred)
  • Understanding of Byzantine fault tolerance and distributed consensus
  • Experience with Nostr, ActivityPub, or federated protocols
  • Cryptography fundamentals — Ed25519, Schnorr signatures, Merkle trees
  • Cloudflare Workers / edge compute experience
  • A genuine reason to care whether this succeeds

Cloudflare Edge Developer

engineering SC + Paid
remote full or part-time Workers · D1 · KV · R2

Phase 1 runs entirely on Cloudflare's edge — Workers, D1, KV, R2. You own this infrastructure, build the API layer, and design the migration path toward full P2P. The bridge between what's launchable now and what's ungovernable long-term.

what you'll build

  • Cloudflare Workers API — all routes, auth, agent orchestration
  • D1 schema design, migrations, query optimisation
  • R2 photo storage pipeline with EXIF extraction
  • KV-based agent state caching and session management
  • Rate limiting, anti-gaming enforcement at the edge
  • Wrangler CI/CD pipeline and deployment automation
  • Phase 1 → P2P abstraction layer design

what you bring

  • Cloudflare Workers and the full ecosystem (D1, KV, R2, Pages)
  • TypeScript — strong typing, not just types as decoration
  • REST API design and JWT auth patterns
  • SQLite query patterns and D1 limitations
  • Understanding of edge compute constraints
  • Experience with geolocation and GPS-based applications

PWA / Frontend Engineer

engineering SC + Paid
remote full-time React · Leaflet · Workbox

RESTORE runs in any browser on any device — no app store, no install friction. You build the PWA: the map interface, the agent conversation flows, the mission completion and verification UI, the offline-capable service worker. The game experience lives here.

what you'll build

  • React 18 PWA with full offline capability via Workbox
  • Leaflet world agent map with dual-axis health indicators
  • Agent conversation interface with persistent memory context
  • Mission completion flow — photo capture, GPS verification, peer confirmation
  • Shareable mission card generation (html2canvas)
  • Governance voting interface
  • Energy node map and microgrid dashboard
  • SC ledger public audit viewer

what you bring

  • React 18, hooks, React Router v6
  • PWA fundamentals — service workers, offline caching, app manifest
  • Leaflet.js or Mapbox GL — interactive map experience
  • Browser Geolocation API and Camera API
  • Workbox caching strategies
  • CSS that communicates character, not just layout
  • Accessibility — this must work for everyone

Mobile Engineer (React Native / Expo)

engineering SC + Paid
remote part to full-time Expo · React Native · GPS

Phase 2 adds a native-quality PWA wrapper for background GPS, Bluetooth proximity sensing for peer verification, and local LLM inference. You bridge the gap between browser capabilities and what the game actually needs to do in the field.

what you'll build

  • Expo-based wrapper for the RESTORE PWA
  • Background GPS tracking for mission proximity detection
  • Bluetooth LE peer presence detection for peer verification
  • Local notification system for mission alerts
  • Local LLM inference integration (llama.cpp via React Native bridge)
  • Camera and photo EXIF handling for verification

what you bring

  • React Native and Expo — including native module experience
  • iOS and Android background task limitations
  • Bluetooth LE peripheral and central roles
  • Background GPS and geofencing
  • On-device ML integration (Core ML, TensorFlow Lite, llama.cpp)

Distributed Inference Engineer

ai & inference SC + Paid
remote full-time Petals · llama.cpp · Ollama

The three-tier inference architecture — on-device small models, Petals distributed inference, aligned entity backbone — is the engineering challenge that takes RESTORE from Anthropic-API-dependent to fully sovereign. You make this work reliably at scale.

RESTORE's goal is zero external API dependency for routine agent calls within three years. This is technically achievable. Getting there requires someone who understands the trade-offs between model quality, latency, cost, and network resilience — and can make pragmatic decisions at each step of the transition.

what you'll build

  • Inference routing layer — tier selection per request type
  • Petals integration for medium-complexity agent calls
  • llama.cpp / Ollama WASM integration for on-device inference
  • Model selection and quantisation strategy by device capability
  • SC reward system for compute contributors
  • Network compute health monitoring
  • Graceful fallback chain management

what you bring

  • Deep knowledge of LLM inference systems — not just calling APIs
  • Petals, llama.cpp, or equivalent distributed inference experience
  • Model quantisation — GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ
  • WebAssembly for in-browser inference
  • Python and TypeScript
  • Understanding of transformer architecture
  • Network latency and reliability engineering

Agent Prompt Architect

ai & inference SC
remote part-time / ongoing prompt engineering · eval

The six self agents and the world agent system are only as good as their prompts. You design, test, and iterate the prompts that determine whether the Body Agent actually changes how someone eats, or whether it just sounds good. Requires deep understanding of both LLM behaviour and human psychology.

what you'll build

  • System prompt architecture for all 6 self agent types
  • World agent personality generation from location data
  • Mission generation prompts by category and difficulty
  • Agent memory summary compression prompts
  • Evaluation framework for agent response quality
  • A/B testing infrastructure for prompt variants
  • Community proposal: governance vote on major prompt changes

what you bring

  • Deep practical experience with Claude, GPT-4, or Llama prompting
  • Understanding of behaviour change psychology
  • Ability to evaluate whether an agent is actually helpful vs sounds helpful
  • Empathy — the agents talk to people in real difficulty
  • Experience with adversarial prompting and jailbreak resistance

Anomaly Detection Engineer

ai & inference SC
remote part-time Sybil resistance · fraud · stats

The SC economy is only trustworthy if gaming it is hard. You design and maintain the protocol-level anomaly detection agents that monitor SC creation velocity, Sybil patterns, and verification quality — and surface findings to the community for governance review.

what you'll build

  • Statistical anomaly detection on SC creation patterns
  • Sybil detection — coordinated account creation, GPS clustering
  • Verification quality scoring system
  • Automated flagging pipeline to governance feed
  • Evidence trail generation for community review
  • Red-teaming — actively try to game the system to find vulnerabilities

what you bring

  • Statistical anomaly detection in distributed systems
  • Sybil attack research and mitigation
  • Fraud detection background (fintech, gaming, social platforms)
  • Adversarial thinking — the ability to be the attacker
  • Experience with game economy design and exploitation

City Node Coordinator

community SC
your city part-time · ongoing community organising

Every city RESTORE launches in needs someone physically present to seed the first world agents, recruit the first players, connect the first corporate partners, and make sure the game is grounded in real local knowledge. This is the most essential non-technical role in the project.

The network isn't a platform you build and people join. It's a community you show up for, every week, in person. City Node Coordinators are the proof that RESTORE is real — that there are actual humans doing actual things in actual places. Without you, it's just a whitepaper.

what you'll do

  • Seed and curate the first 50 world agents in your city
  • Run weekly in-person RESTORE sessions for new players
  • Connect local organisations — food banks, community centres, energy groups — to the platform
  • Identify and approach local corporate partners
  • Onboard the first Steward-tier players in your area
  • Submit community proposals based on local needs
  • Document what works and what doesn't for the network

what you bring

  • Deep roots in your local community
  • Experience with community organising, campaigning, or grassroots work
  • Relationships with local organisations and institutions
  • Genuine belief that the playing field can be levelled
  • The ability to talk to a food bank director and a tech engineer in the same afternoon
  • No requirement to be technical — the platform serves you, not the other way around

Steward Programme Lead

community SC
remote + local part-time governance · onboarding

Stewards are the community's backbone — verifying missions, voting in governance, serving in emergency patch multi-sigs, nominating new world agents. You design and run the programme that turns engaged players into trusted Stewards, and trusted Stewards into community leaders.

what you'll do

  • Design the Steward onboarding and progression pathway
  • Create peer verification training materials
  • Run the emergency steward pool recruitment and rotation
  • Facilitate governance deliberation for major proposals
  • Mediate community disputes within the protocol's scope
  • Document Steward best practices for the network

what you bring

  • Community moderation or governance experience
  • Ability to hold difficult conversations without hierarchy
  • Understanding of decentralised governance models
  • Training or facilitation skills
  • Deep alignment with RESTORE's principles — especially no gurus

Ancestral Nutrition Advisor

health SC
remote advisory / part-time evolutionary nutrition

The Body Agent's nutritional framework must be grounded in the best available science, not in industry-funded guidelines. You ensure the protocol reflects evolutionary biology, metabolic research, and clinical evidence — and that the missions it generates are achievable, evidence-based, and genuinely transformative.

The Body Agent will be talking to millions of people about what they eat. That is an enormous responsibility. The framework must be honest about what the evidence shows, transparent about where it disagrees with mainstream guidelines and why, and designed to help people track their own outcomes rather than just accept the protocol on faith.

what you'll do

  • Define and maintain the Body Agent's nutritional framework
  • Review and approve mission content for the body pathway
  • Design the 30-day body protocol sequence
  • Create the self-tracking framework for players to measure their own outcomes
  • Keep the framework updated as evidence evolves
  • Train the prompt architecture team on the nutritional reasoning

what you bring

  • Deep knowledge of evolutionary and ancestral nutrition science
  • Familiarity with metabolic health research — insulin, inflammation, lipid science
  • The ability to explain why the food pyramid was wrong without sounding like a conspiracy theorist
  • Clinical or coaching experience with dietary transformation
  • Epistemic honesty — comfort with uncertainty and with changing your mind

Addiction and Dependency Specialist

health SC
remote advisory / part-time behaviour change · harm reduction

The Freedom Agent talks to people about their dependencies. Some of those people are in genuine distress. The protocol must be grounded in actual behaviour change science, harm reduction principles, and clinical reality — not motivational platitudes. You make sure the agent helps rather than harms.

what you'll do

  • Design the Freedom Agent's dependency audit framework
  • Create the graduated liberation sequence protocol
  • Define safeguarding boundaries — when to refer, when to pause
  • Design the peer accountability mechanic for the freedom pathway
  • Create crisis recognition guidelines for the agent
  • Review all Freedom Agent prompt content

what you bring

  • Clinical or counselling background in addiction or behaviour change
  • Harm reduction philosophy and practice
  • Motivational interviewing techniques
  • Understanding of the neurochemistry of dependency
  • Lived experience welcome — not required
  • Comfort with the idea that the agent is not a therapist and must know its limits

Community Microgrid Engineer

energy SC + Paid
field + remote full-time solar · battery · grid

You design and oversee the installation of community solar and battery nodes. You understand second-life EV battery preparation and repurposing for stationary storage. You know which regulations are relevant in which jurisdictions and how to navigate them. You make the energy sovereignty pathway real in the physical world.

Every solar panel installed, every second-life battery commissioned, every household that stops writing a cheque to a utility every month is a proof point. This role produces the most visible, tangible evidence that RESTORE works. You are building infrastructure that will still be running when you're old.

what you'll do

  • Design the technical specification for community solar nodes
  • Develop second-life EV battery testing and commissioning protocol
  • Create the installation mission framework for player electricians
  • Navigate grid connection regulations by jurisdiction
  • Design the peer-to-peer energy exchange technical architecture
  • Oversee and quality-control field installations
  • Train player technicians through mission-based certifications

what you bring

  • Electrical engineering qualification — 18th edition or equivalent
  • Solar PV design and installation experience
  • Battery storage systems — ideally including second-life EV batteries
  • Grid connection regulations and DNO processes
  • Peer-to-peer energy trading frameworks
  • Ability to create accessible technical training materials

Energy Advocacy Coordinator

energy SC
UK / EU — field part-time planning · policy · communities

The highest-SC advocacy missions require someone who can actually show up — at planning meetings, at council consultations, at community energy forums. You coordinate the players who take on advocacy missions and translate regulatory wins into network infrastructure upgrades.

what you'll do

  • Map the planning and regulatory landscape for community energy in your area
  • Design and populate the advocacy mission library
  • Build relationships with sympathetic councillors and planners
  • Coordinate players at planning meetings and consultations
  • Track regulatory wins and translate them into mission unlocks
  • Connect RESTORE communities with established energy co-ops

what you bring

  • Experience with planning processes or local government
  • Community energy policy knowledge
  • Ability to work across political lines — this isn't partisan
  • Connections to energy co-ops, Community Energy England, Local Energy Scotland, or equivalent
  • The patience to work within systems while building outside them

Food Sovereignty Network Builder

food SC
field — any region part-time farmers · distribution · co-ops

Direct relationships between RESTORE communities and local farmers are the food sovereignty pathway's end goal. You build those relationships, onboard farmers to the network, design the community food store model, and create the mission sequences that connect players to real local food systems.

what you'll do

  • Map and approach local farmers and producers for the network
  • Design the community food store SC redemption model
  • Create food sovereignty mission sequences for world agents
  • Connect food bank networks to the RESTORE resource system
  • Design the growing mission framework for allotments and community gardens
  • Coordinate with corporate food partners on contribution frameworks

what you bring

  • Experience with food co-ops, CSAs, or farmers markets
  • Relationships with local farmers and producers
  • Understanding of food distribution logistics at community scale
  • Regenerative agriculture knowledge welcome
  • Ability to talk to a smallholder and a food bank manager in the same afternoon

Protocol Governance Designer

governance SC
remote part-time DAO · voting · p2p law

The one-person-one-vote governance protocol is the most politically important design decision in the project. You stress-test it, red-team it, refine it — and propose changes through the very governance system you are designing. You understand both the theory of decentralised governance and the history of how it has failed.

Every decentralised governance system that has preceded RESTORE has eventually been captured — by whales, by insiders, by the tyranny of structurelessness, or by simple voter apathy. Your job is to understand each failure mode and design against it. Not to create a perfect system — there is no perfect system — but to create one that is honest about its limitations and builds in the mechanisms to correct them over time.

what you'll do

  • Design and document the full governance protocol specification
  • Red-team the proof-of-personhood system
  • Design proposal templates for different change types
  • Create the deliberation framework for major proposals
  • Design the emergency patch multi-sig protocol in detail
  • Research governance failure modes across DAOs and p2p systems
  • Write the constitutional amendments process

what you bring

  • Deep knowledge of DAO governance models and their failure modes
  • Political science or institutional design background welcome
  • Understanding of Sybil resistance and identity verification
  • Experience with Nostr, ActivityPub, or federated governance
  • The ability to be genuinely critical of your own designs

Corporate Partnership Lead

partnerships SC + Paid
remote + field full-time ESG · CSR · enterprise

Corporate partnerships are how RESTORE gets resourced without charging players. You understand the ESG landscape, the CSR budget cycle, and how to make the case that contributing hardware, vehicles, and funds to RESTORE produces better verified impact data than any alternative. You close deals that fund the commons.

You are not a salesperson for a product. You are making the case that generosity is rational — that Toyota gets more from donating second-life batteries than from recycling them quietly, that Dell gets more from donating laptops than from writing a cheque to a charity nobody has heard of. The pitch is grounded in numbers and evidence. Your job is to find the people inside these organisations who already believe this and give them the ammunition to make the case internally.

what you'll do

  • Build and manage the corporate partner pipeline
  • Develop the partnership pitch materials and impact case studies
  • Negotiate contribution frameworks and match trigger agreements
  • Onboard partners to the corporate portal
  • Design the ESG data package for each partner tier
  • Coordinate with city node coordinators on local partner opportunities
  • Build relationships with automotive partners for second-life battery programme

what you bring

  • Enterprise B2B sales or partnerships experience
  • Deep understanding of ESG frameworks and reporting requirements
  • Experience with CSR budgets and decision-making processes
  • Ability to work with sustainability directors, procurement teams, and legal
  • Knowledge of automotive, tech, and financial services sectors
  • Genuine conviction — you cannot fake belief in this pitch

Financial Institution Partner

partnerships SC + Paid
remote + field part-time fintech · CRA · credit unions

The SC credit profile is the most important financial innovation in the project — a better signal than traditional credit scoring for the population most underserved by traditional finance. You find the banks and credit unions that understand this and build the partnerships that connect Sovereign Credits to real financial access.

what you'll do

  • Identify and approach progressive banks and credit unions
  • Build the financial partner API proposition and data model
  • Navigate Community Reinvestment Act / equivalent frameworks
  • Design the Grant Pool mechanics with bank partners
  • Develop the SC-credit profile consent and pseudonymisation framework
  • Create the micro-grant disbursement process

what you bring

  • Financial services industry knowledge — regulation, products, decision-making
  • Credit union or community development finance experience
  • CRA or equivalent community reinvestment policy knowledge
  • Fintech partnership or API product experience
  • Understanding of alternative creditworthiness signals

Mission Content Writer

content SC
remote ongoing / freelance copywriting · UX writing

Missions are the game. They must be specific, achievable, genuinely useful, and written in the voice of an agent who cares deeply about the person they're talking to. You write missions that change behaviour — not because they're clever, but because they're real.

what you'll write

  • Mission titles and descriptions across all 6 pathways
  • Agent greeting scripts for world agent location types
  • Protocol day-by-day content for Body, Freedom, and Mind sequences
  • Onboarding flow copy
  • Shareable mission card templates
  • Governance proposal templates

what you bring

  • UX writing or product copy experience
  • Ability to write warmly without being saccharine
  • Understanding of behaviour change — you've done hard things yourself
  • Precision — missions must be specific enough to actually do
  • Lived experience with at least one of the six pathways

Documentary Filmmaker / Visual Storyteller

content SC
field — any city project-based documentary · social · raw

The most powerful proof that RESTORE works is a person transformed. The second most powerful is a community changed. You find those stories, film them with honesty, and put them in front of the world. Not polished corporate content. Raw, real, on a phone if that's what it takes.

what you'll create

  • Short documentary pieces following players through transformation
  • Community energy installation documentation
  • City node launch stories
  • TikTok / Reels / Shorts format mission highlight content
  • The corporate impact content that partners need for their ESG reporting
  • Archive of RESTORE's first year in the world

what you bring

  • Documentary sensibility — truth over production value
  • Ability to film and edit on a phone when that's the right tool
  • Social media native — understanding of what travels on each platform
  • Empathy — these are real people's real struggles
  • RESTORE is public domain — so is everything you make for it

Security Researcher

security SC
remote ongoing cryptography · red-team · audit

The SC ledger is only credible if it cannot be gamed. The P2P network is only ungovernable if it cannot be captured. You break things before adversaries do — and you do it publicly, because that is what an open-source network demands of its security researchers.

Everything you find gets published. Fixes go through the governance process. There are no private disclosures that get quietly patched — the community needs to know what was vulnerable and why, because that is the only way to build genuine trust in infrastructure that cannot rely on institutional authority to back it up.

what you'll do

  • Audit the cryptographic foundations — key management, Merkle ledger, signatures
  • Red-team the proof-of-personhood system
  • Attack the SC economy — find every way to create SC without real action
  • Test the P2P network against eclipse, Sybil, and routing attacks
  • Review smart contract equivalents in the governance protocol
  • Publish findings on the governance feed as standard proposals

what you bring

  • Cryptography — Ed25519, Schnorr, Merkle, hash functions
  • P2P network attack surface knowledge
  • Game economy exploitation experience
  • Smart contract audit background welcome
  • Comfort with radical transparency — your findings are public

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What you're actually
building.

01 —

Infrastructure that outlasts you

P2P, open source, public domain. No company to acquire. No server to shut down. No CEO to bribe. What you build here should still be running when your grandchildren are old enough to use it.

02 —

Nobody tells you what to build

Governance by community vote. Protocol changes require consensus. Your contributions go through the same open process as everyone else's. No sprint planning from a product manager. No OKRs from a VP.

03 —

Your work is publicly verifiable

Every commit is public. Every governance vote is on-chain. Every SC earned for your contributions is a verifiable record of what you actually did. Your portfolio is the ledger.

04 —

The problem is actually solvable

Human sovereignty across food, energy, mind, body, community, and purpose is not a utopian fantasy. It is a technical and organisational problem. Every role on this page solves a specific, well-defined part of it.

05 —

SC rewards are real

Sovereign Credits are not a promise. They are a public record of verified contribution that accumulates over time, unlocks real community resources, and provides the financial identity that traditional credit scoring cannot see.

06 —

The computers stay on or they don't

We are at the moment when AI either becomes an instrument of liberation or an instrument of tighter control. The people building RESTORE have decided which side of that they want to be on. This is the work that answers that question with action, not opinion.

React Native / Flutter Engineer

SC + Paid Priority

RESTORE is mobile-first. The app is the product. We need someone who builds native-feeling mobile apps with React Native or Flutter and cares about performance at the architecture level — shared context layers, deterministic routing, background compute scheduling, BLE integration. The app must feel as fast as any top-tier social app. All sovereignty infrastructure runs silently underneath. You make that possible.

React Native or Flutter BLE / Bluetooth SQLite / local-first TypeScript Mobile performance

Nostr Protocol Engineer

SC

The social layer, community hex pages, encrypted DMs, and Proof of Action feed all run on Nostr. We need someone who knows the NIPs — NIP-01, NIP-44 encrypted messaging, NIP-65 relay lists — and can design the RESTORE-specific event schema for missions, SC transactions, and governance votes. If you've built something on Nostr and care about genuinely decentralised communication, this is the role.

Nostr protocol NIP-44 encryption ed25519 P2P networking

City Steward — Launch City

SC People Role

RESTORE launches city by city. The first city needs 200 real people doing real missions within 30 days. A Steward makes that happen. You personally onboard 20–30 players, BLE-handshake with each of them to establish their personhood verification, run one community event per month, and seed your local hex feed with Proof of Action content. This is not a tech role. It is a people role. The network is built one real interaction at a time. You are the proof that RESTORE is real.

Community building Event coordination Local knowledge No tech required

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your role?

The list above is what we know we need. There is certainly much more. If you see where you fit — or where something is missing — tell us.

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