Senior AI Engineer - APAC + Africa
ChainGPT provides AI-powered tools for Web3 developers and users, including smart contract generation, auditing, NFT creation, and blockchain analytics.
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About ChainGPT
ChainGPT integrates artificial intelligence with blockchain technology through its advanced AI model trained on Web3 data. Users can generate and audit smart contracts, create NFTs, access trading analysis, and interact with blockchain information through AI-powered interfaces. The platform operates across multiple blockchains and provides API/SDK access for developers.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Work with founders and senior leaders to turn AI-assisted prototypes into reliable production systems and shape an early-stage enterprise AI governance product.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years building and shipping production software.
- Experience owning systems used by real users, including production incidents, scale, reliability, and maintainability.
- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
- Ability to use AI agents while maintaining control over quality, security, and architecture.
- Deep software engineering fundamentals in architecture, debugging, system design, and code quality.
- Strong security instincts regarding risks from AI-generated code.
- Judgment about AI tool capabilities, hallucinations, and the need for human expertise.
- Strong ownership mindset and comfort with ambiguity and difficult technical problems.
- Startup, 0-to-1, founder, first-engineer, or early-stage product experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship core product features, systems, and infrastructure.
- Turn AI-assisted prototypes into reliable, scalable, production-grade software.
- Own architecture, security, quality, and technical direction across major product areas.
- Use Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents to increase engineering output.
- Direct, evaluate, and control agentic development workflows with human oversight.
- Define engineering standards, architecture patterns, review practices, and AI-native workflows.
- Work with founders on product strategy, technical tradeoffs, and execution.
- Debug complex issues and make high-judgment technical decisions.
Benefits
- Remote-first setup with flexible hours.
- Competitive compensation with performance-based upside where applicable.
- Direct collaboration with founders and senior management.
- Meaningful ownership and autonomy.
- Structured onboarding and access to necessary tools.
- Opportunity to build high-impact AI and Web3 products.
Hiring Process
Onboarding includes payroll and HR-provider enrollment, employment documentation, tax and legal compliance, KYC verification, NDA execution, employment contract execution, jurisdiction-specific requirements, and a 90-day probationary period.
