AI Innovator
Full-time, San Francisco, offsite events incl. international quarterly.
OUR MISSION
Lead the movement of data computing automation to the edge, to real-time, with data sovereignty.
As AI evolves with agentic workflows, CEF transforms how intelligence and data interact through a fundamentally new approach: dynamic orchestration of AI agents securely onto your data.
CEF is not just another AI cloud service - we're building the foundation for the next generation of AI infrastructure.
IDEAL CANDIDATE
An ideal candidate we are looking to find and help grow into a world-class AI Innovator:
- Has launched 0 to 1 solutions to scale, and/or generated real revenue.
- Worked with many data solutions to drive robust and distributed platforms for millions of users.
- Ideally, has worked with founders closely, or was a founder before, or worked well with a small tight-nit group over extended time to build real innovation.
- Shares the view that AI workflows should start with agile data onboarding and dynamic indexing.
- Eager to quickly put together bleeding-edge AI prototypes (computer vision, personal health LLMs, NLP sentiment analysis, etc.), while reducing their time-to-market.
- Prioritizes hard-earned knowledge over showing off with numbers.
- Enjoys on- and off-site events when we get the team together and work face to face.
Perhaps the best one sentence description is “a hands-on AI dataflow architect to help shape the CEF data platform”.
We will gladly consider anyone who has solid data engineering experiences and has been experimenting with AI integration.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As an AI Innovator, your job is to keep finding ways to seamlessly blend agentic AI compute into the infrastructure of automated and distributed data clusters (DDCs).
Our mostly solidified top-level design is:
- Dynamic data indexing as the data enters the DDCs, via private and encrypted ETL pipelines.
- Multiple agents customized for each set of use cases where all individual AI Agents can perform data operations & querying in localized, dynamic, and secure ways.
- The multi-agent orchestration platform to dynamically load/route/engage agents with an alive, breathing AI system.
In addition, we have several sophisticated AI prototypes that you can already get your hands on, with real data and live deployments.
The Current AI team gauges the role to be ~40% data pipelines infrastructure, ~30% building AI demos, and ~30% integration work. Good news is, we do not have massive datasets to manually clean up, since we gather all the data ourselves.
On the flip side, the AI Innovator we are looking forward to hiring will spend considerable time in conversations with others on how to best perform data onboarding and further data crunching in safe, secure, and performant ways.
ABOUT US
CEF is a cutting-edge startup operating in stealth mode, poised for impact in the AI landscape with recent seed funding. 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.
We are building an AI-first data computing platform combining automated edge infrastructure, real-time agent orchestration, and permissioned dynamic AI data pipelines.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Innovate: Surgically and rapidly apply innovation to prototype a number of solutions in both enterprise and consumer use cases
- Ownership: Take pride in end-to-end ownership and full accountability.
- Ambition: We expect you to grow fast, both as an Individual Contributor and the business domain owner.
- Intellectual honesty: Our DNA is to be Socratic and think from first principles.
- Proactive communicator: We prefer to ask up front instead of second-guessing.
BENEFITS
Base Pay: We offer a market-competitive base salary based on your experience and expertise, plus major upside in equity.
Customized Benefits: We are flexible in our offers and open to personalization, feel free to ask.
This is your chance to join a trailblazing team at the ground level. We’re assembling innovative minds to tackle complex challenges and shape the foundational technologies for tomorrow’s world.
