Opaque Systems

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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