Opaque Systems
Principal Engineer, Confidential AI
San Francisco, CA · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsKubernetesAgentic AILangGraph
About the role
- About OPAQUE OPAQUE is the Confidential AI company.
- Born from UC Berkeley's RISELab, we solve the core challenge blocking AI adoption at scale: security concerns about data leaks or compliance violations.
- OPAQUE provides verifiable privacy and governance for AI so organizations can safely run models, agents, and workflows on their most sensitive data.
Responsibilities
- Own the integration of the open agent-governance stack (Confidential MCP, Agent Manifest, TRACE) into OPAQUE Agent Control and OPAQUE Confidential Core, bound to hardware attestation and TEEs (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, NVIDIA Confidential Computing).
- 10+ years building production systems, with depth across both application software and low-level/systems work.
- Software helps you build; hardware helps you scale; verifiable AI requires both.
- You will own the integration end to end, ship it as platform offerings like OPAQUE Confidential MCP™ and OPAQUE Confidential Agents™, represent OPAQUE in the standards communities defining this space, and carry the work from open-source spec to scaled, attested product.
Requirements
- comfort in Python and the agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen).
- Experience scaling distributed systems on Kubernetes, ideally multi-cloud.
Nice to have
- prior work in agent governance, policy engines (Cedar), SBOM/supply-chain, or verifiable credentials.
Skills
- security concerns about data leaks or compliance violations.
- Learn More at Opaque.co
- Ship platform offerings such as OPAQUE Confidential MCP and OPAQUE Confidential Agents on top of that foundation.
- Represent OPAQUE as a technical contributor in the foundations that standardize this work (Agentic
Benefits
- Bonus: prior work in agent governance, policy engines (Cedar), SBOM/supply-chain, or verifiable credentials.
Company info
- About OPAQUE
- OPAQUE is the Confidential AI company.
- We are hiring a Principal Engineer to bring the open agent-governance stack we help lead into the heart of the platform.
- The open projects (the Agent Governance Toolkit, Confidential MCP, Agent Manifest, and TRACE, under agentrust-io) define how autonomous agents prove what they did.
- shipped meaningful upstream work and can represent a company technically in a community.
- Work directly with customers to turn their hardest confidential-AI problems into platform capabilities.
- What we are looking for
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