Principal Software Engineer

Are you excited by the opportunity to join a badass team building the future of agentic AI infrastructure?

Do you thrive on solving hard problems (individually and collectively), yet are humble and hungry to learn and grow within a team on your path to greatness?

Do you desire to join a close-knit pack led by SV startup veterans who can accelerate your growth 10X (compared to the corporate trajectory / culture)?

If you've answered with 3 resounding "yeses," we want to meet you!

You will play a critical role in designing and building our inference platform for sovereign AI agents. This is not just an execution role — we’re looking for someone who thinks strategically, moves with intention, and can take ideas from concept to production with a balance of technical depth and practical decision-making.

You’ll be working across the stack, applying modern technologies to develop performant, secure, and scalable systems. This is an opportunity to help shape the foundation of a platform that powers real-world AI applications at scale.

Tasks

• Systems Architecture : Design, implement, and scale foundational backend systems and APIs that power real-time, multi-agent AI workflows.
• Developer Experience : Own the end-to-end developer journey by building SDKs, CLIs, and interfaces that make it easy to interact with our platform.
• Cross-Stack Execution : Rapidly prototype and productize features using tools like Cursor, React, and TypeScript—without sacrificing quality or scale.
• Technical Leadership : Guide architectural decisions, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers in best practices for distributed, high-performance systems.
• Collaboration : Partner with product, design, and leadership to align technical execution with company vision and user needs.
• Execution Ownership : Drive key projects from 0→1 with autonomy, accountability, and a strong bias for action.

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Benefits

Our Hiring Process

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Join CEF AI as a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the future of real-time, privacy-first AI inference. If you want to work on original systems that will define the next decade of compute - Apply now .

CEF is an inference platform for sovereign AI agents. We unify orchestration, data, and infrastructure into a single platform optimized for real-time compute — running across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments with per-tenant encrypted data vaults and full lineage.