Berlin, Germany (hybrid) Hybrid 90 € to 165 € / year

CEF AI is hiring a Founding Platform Engineer

About the Role

The individual will lead platform development efforts, creating scalable systems that support AI integration and high-performance computing needs.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement foundational platform architecture
  • Develop APIs and services to support AI model deployment
  • Optimize system performance and reliability at scale
  • Collaborate with research and product teams to integrate new capabilities
  • Establish engineering best practices and coding standards
  • Build monitoring and observability tools for production systems
  • Manage deployment pipelines and CI/CD infrastructure
  • Ensure security and compliance across all platform components
  • Troubleshoot and resolve critical technical issues
  • Contribute to technical roadmap and strategic planning
  • Evaluate and integrate third-party tools and services
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
  • Support on-call operations when necessary
  • Participate in code reviews and team knowledge sharing
  • Help define data storage and processing strategies
  • Implement authentication and authorization systems
  • Work with containerization and orchestration technologies
  • Scale infrastructure to meet growing demand
  • Maintain system uptime and performance benchmarks
  • Drive automation across development and operations workflows
  • Refactor legacy components for improved efficiency
  • Assist in defining service level objectives
  • Integrate logging and alerting frameworks
  • Support reproducibility of machine learning workflows
  • Collaborate on disaster recovery planning

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity offered

Work Arrangement

Hybrid availability required

Team

Small, fast-moving team focused on rapid iteration and technical excellence

Why This Role Matters

This position sits at the intersection of infrastructure, AI, and product development, directly influencing the platform's long-term success and scalability.

Growth Opportunity

As a founding engineer, you will help shape team structure, technical direction, and culture, with room to grow into leadership as the organization expands.

Available for qualified candidates

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About company
CEF AI

A unified orchestration, data and compute platform that replaces legacy batch processing with agent execution. Built for edge-deployment with adaptive context, complete data control and full data lineage.

CEF provides a complete infrastructure stack for multi-agent systems, featuring real-time evals, data lineage, live event-driven compute, unified adaptive memory, and sovereign data vaults. The platform supports on-prem, VPC, cloud, and hybrid deployments with full data sovereignty and auditability.

Designed for robotics, gaming, and security applications, CEF enables enterprises to deploy AI agents that deliver measurable results with real-time feedback loops and full ownership of data and models.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago