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# Founding AI Engineer

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Mobile Application Development, Data Infrastructure, Large Language Models, Backend, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** May 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/founding-ai-engineer-london/2774740659-2/

## About the Role

* Strong software engineering fundamentals
 * Hands-on experience building with LLMs and modern AI tooling
 * Experience shipping real products, not just prototypes
 * Someone comfortable owning problems end-to-end rather than waiting for detailed specs
 * Engineers already using AI-native development workflows.
 * Ability to move quickly without sacrificing engineering quality

Experience across AI engineering, backend systems, data infrastructure, or scalable SaaS platforms is all relevant.

## Description

This is not a maintain legacy systems type role. You'll be joining at the stage where architecture decisions still matter, product direction changes weekly, and exceptional engineers can have outsized impact.

The focus of the role is GenAI systems engineering - designing, evaluating, and deploying LLM-powered products that operate reliably in production environments.

What you'll be doing

 * Building and improving LLM orchestration pipelines
 * Designing prompt systems, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops
 * Working across retrieval, context management, agent workflows, and inference optimisation
 * Deploying AI products into production with a strong focus on reliability and observability
 * Collaborating closely with founders, product, and end users to rapidly iterate on features
 * Helping establish engineering best practices, tooling, and technical direction early on


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