AI Engineer
Sterling Bridge Limited
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
13 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Intermediate Compensation
£ 250KJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Python
Machine Learning
Large Language Models
Requirements
- Strong experience in AI / Machine Learning Engineering (2-5 years)
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based systems
- Experience with Python and modern AI frameworks
- Strong understanding of model architecture, evaluation, and optimisation
- Experience working in a start-up or high-growth environment is highly beneficial
- Strong academic background - ideally from Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial or equivalent
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-performance engineering team
Benefits & conditions
- £150,000 - £250,000 Salary (depending on experience)
- Join a well-funded AI start-up (£40M+ raised) at an early stage
- Work on real-world AI systems in production, not theory
- Direct access to founders and key decision-makers
- Opportunity to help shape product, architecture, and technical direction
- Work alongside top-tier engineers from elite academic and industry backgrounds
- Strong potential for equity and long-term upside
- Fast-moving, non-corporate, high-performance culture
- A genuine opportunity to be part of a category-defining AI company
About the company
We're working with a well-funded, high-growth AI start-up operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the legal sector, backed by over £40M in funding and scaling rapidly. They're now looking for an exceptional AI Engineer to join their core team and help build real, production-grade AI systems that are transforming how an entire industry operates.
This is not a research-only role - it's about shipping real AI products. You'll be designing, building, and deploying systems using LLMs, agent frameworks, and modern AI infrastructure, working directly with founders and senior engineers in a fast-moving environment where your work has immediate impact. The team is made up of high-calibre engineers from top universities and leading tech companies, and they're looking for someone who can operate at that level.
If you want to work on cutting-edge AI, move quickly, and be part of a company with genuine breakout potential - this is one of the most exciting opportunities on the market.