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Posted March 2026. This role may already be filled. Kept as a salary reference point.

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Blockchain Engineer, Founding Platform Engineer

CEF AI
[F] grind
REMOTE
€100,000 - €165,000 ≈ $108k
Rust Substrate Zk Primitives
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CEF AI (cef.ai) | Blockchain Engineer, Founding Platform Engineer | SF, Berlin (Remote) | €100K–€165K + Equity We're building decentralized AI infrastructure, an inference platform for sovereign AI agents unifying orchestration, data, and compute. Small team, high ownership, real equity. Blockchain Engineer — Rust/Substrate L1 protocol dev. Custom pallets, ZK primitives, on-chain governance. 7+ yrs Rust. Founding Platform Engineer — Core backend, APIs, SDKs, developer tooling. Build systems from scratch, not maintain them. 4+ yrs production software. Fast hiring process, paid 5-day trial. Direct access to founders.

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