AI Innovator - CEF AI

AI Innovator

Full-time, San Francisco (offsite events including international quarterly)

Our Mission

At CEF, we lead the movement of data computing automation to the edge, focusing on real-time processing with data sovereignty. As AI evolves with agentic workflows, we are transforming how intelligence and data interact by securely orchestrating AI agents onto your data. CEF isn’t just another AI cloud service—we’re building the foundation for the next generation of AI infrastructure.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a hands-on AI Innovator who is passionate about blending cutting-edge AI technology with distributed data platforms. The ideal candidate will have:

• Successfully launched 0 to 1 solutions and/or generated real revenue.
• Extensive experience with data solutions, building robust and distributed platforms for millions of users.
• A history of working closely with founders or in small, tight-knit teams to create real innovation.
• A shared belief that AI workflows should start with agile data onboarding and dynamic indexing.
• An eagerness to quickly develop bleeding-edge AI prototypes (e.g., computer vision, personal health LLMs, NLP sentiment analysis), reducing their time-to-market.
• A focus on hard-earned knowledge rather than showcasing numbers.
• A desire to engage in on- and off-site events and collaborate with the team face-to-face.
• Ideally, a hands-on AI dataflow architect with strong data engineering experience and familiarity with AI integration.

About the Role

As an AI Innovator, your job will be to continuously innovate and integrate agentic AI into the infrastructure of automated and distributed data clusters (DDCs). You will be responsible for:

• Dynamic Data Indexing: Indexing data dynamically as it enters the DDCs through private and encrypted ETL pipelines.
• AI Agents Customization: Customizing multiple AI agents for specific use cases, allowing each agent to perform data operations and querying in secure, localized, and dynamic ways.
• Multi-Agent Orchestration: Developing and managing the multi-agent orchestration platform, enabling the seamless loading, routing, and engagement of AI agents with an active AI system.
• Working with AI prototypes, using real data and live deployments to rapidly prototype innovative solutions in both enterprise and consumer use cases.

The Current AI team structure

• 40% of the role is focused on data pipelines infrastructure.
• 30% is dedicated to building AI demos.
• 30% involves integration work with a focus on data onboarding and crunching in a safe, secure, and performant manner.

We do not need to clean massive datasets manually, as we gather all data internally. However, the AI Innovator will need to spend considerable time discussing and determining how to best perform data onboarding and further data manipulation securely and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Innovate: Apply innovation quickly to prototype multiple solutions for enterprise and consumer use cases, including AI, blockchain, and crypto applications.
• Ownership: Take full ownership and accountability for your solutions from start to finish.
• Ambition: We expect you to grow rapidly, both as an Individual Contributor and as a key business domain owner.
• Intellectual Honesty: We emphasize Socratic thinking and encourage first-principles reasoning.
• Proactive Communication: We value clear communication and prefer asking upfront rather than second-guessing.

Benefits:

• Competitive Base Pay & Equity: Market-competitive salary based on your experience, with significant upside in equity.
• Customized Benefits: Flexible and personalized benefits packages—feel free to discuss customization options.
• Ground-Level Opportunity: Join a trailblazing team at the cutting edge of AI and blockchain innovation.
• Offsite Events & Collaboration: International quarterly offsite events to engage with the team and foster collaboration.

About Us

CEF is a cutting-edge startup operating in stealth mode, poised for a significant impact in the AI landscape. With recent seed funding, we are building an AI-first data computing platform that combines automated edge infrastructure, real-time agent orchestration, and permissioned dynamic AI data pipelines. Our vision is bold: to create a future where individuals own their data and trusted personal AI agents seamlessly enhance everyday life with real-time, secure, and transparent intelligence.

Join Us

If you're passionate about AI innovation, data engineering, and want to help shape the future of AI and web3/blockchain technology, we’d love to hear from you! Apply today and be part of a team that’s revolutionizing AI infrastructure.