Senior AI Engineer
Harnham
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 76KJob location
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Github
Python
PostgreSQL
React
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Job description
With strong revenue traction, top-tier investors, and a deeply technical founding team, this is a chance to help build a category-defining company from the inside.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Designing, building, and deploying production-grade AI algorithms that materially improve output quality in real-world applications
- Owning state-of-the-art evaluation pipelines to benchmark models, guide R&D, and support rapid iteration
- Researching and implementing advanced prompt engineering and LLM interaction techniques
- Working across the stack (primarily Python, but also Postgres and React) to ensure research translates cleanly into customer-facing product
- Moving fast from idea to production, with direct customer feedback loops
The environment:
- High-ownership, low-ego team of AI researchers and elite engineers
- Strong commercial traction with hundreds of enterprise users globally
- Recently closed a major funding round from top-tier investors
- Ambitious, execution-focused culture with very high engineering standards
Requirements
Must-haves:
- Deep Python expertise and experience shipping AI systems into production
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and modern model architectures
- Proven track record building evaluation frameworks or ML pipelines used in live environments
- Comfort working end-to-end across the stack
- Clear communicator who can reason about complex technical trade-offs
- 4+ years experience total
Nice-to-haves:
- Publications at top ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML)
- Experience with LLM evaluation tooling (e.g. OpenAI Evals or similar)
- Strong GitHub presence or technically ambitious side projects
Benefits & conditions
- Salary up to £180k + meaningful equity
- Work directly with a highly technical founding team
- Visa sponsorship and private medical insurance
- London-based, high-performance office environment with meals provided
- Opportunity to help shape a product and company with genuine breakout potential