AI Lead
The Sei Development Foundation is an independent U.S. non-profit dedicated to the advancement of Sei, the first parallelized EVM blockchain. Sei is designed for high-frequency applications, offering unmatched scalability and speed, with the ability to settle transactions in 400ms and process 10,000 transactions for as low as $0.05.
About Sei Development Foundation
The Sei Development Foundation is an independent U.S. non-profit that promotes the adoption of open-source, permissionless protocols like Sei. The foundation provides support to builders, creators, and contributors through direct grants and community-driven funding initiatives. Sei is a high-performance Layer 1 EVM blockchain, distinguished as the first parallelized EVM chain. It boasts 400ms block times and a throughput of 100 MGas/s, enabling web2-like experiences and high-frequency trading. Its architecture features Twin Turbo Consensus for sub-second finality, a Parallelization Engine for multi-core transaction execution, and SeiDB for optimized state access, ensuring robust security and scalability. The platform supports seamless integration with EVM tools like Hardhat and Foundry, facilitating the development of high-performance smart contracts, dApps, and fast, low-fee crypto payments.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Transform how work gets done by auditing workflows, designing prompts and AI systems, building automations, integrating tools, training teams, measuring impact, and maintaining an AI playbook.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on daily experience using AI tools in real work contexts.
- Experience with agentic frameworks.
- Proven experience deploying production AI workflows with measurable impact.
- Strong prompt engineering skills across GPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar models.
- Systems thinking and ability to design scalable workflows.
- Exceptional communication skills for technical and executive stakeholders.
- Background in operations, product, strategy, or engineering.
- High ownership and ability to ship production systems.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Python or JavaScript scripting proficiency preferred.
- Experience in crypto, Web3, or high-growth technology environments preferred.
- Experience building internal AI capabilities preferred.
Responsibilities
- Audit AI usage and operational workflows to identify high-leverage opportunities.
- Prioritize AI implementation opportunities by time savings, output quality, and strategic impact.
- Design, test, and iterate on prompts and prompt chains.
- Build repeatable AI workflows for reporting, analysis, planning, and communications.
- Develop evaluation criteria for AI output quality and reliability.
- Maintain a versioned prompt library and AI playbook.
- Implement automations for reporting, research summaries, meeting preparation, and follow-up.
- Integrate AI tooling with Slack, Notion, Monday.com, and Google Workspace.
- Evaluate AI tools using build-versus-buy-versus-configure criteria.
- Scope agentic workflows to replace manual processes.
- Train leadership and cross-functional teams on AI tools and workflows.
- Create documentation and training materials for self-service adoption.
- Track AI adoption metrics, hours saved, output quality, and process improvements.
- Iterate on workflows using usage data and team feedback.
- Report AI impact and adoption roadmaps to founders.
