AI Engineer

Explore Group
London, UK
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Software Architecture Next.js Software Engineering Systems Integration Web Application Frameworks ReactJS Large Language Models
+5 more
Prompt Engineering Backend Fastapi Data Management Virtual Agents

Job description

They’re looking for a Lead AI Engineer who wants to take ownership of technical direction, architecture, and product delivery. This is an opportunity to join early, work directly with the founders, and have a significant impact on both the product and company trajectory.

The Role

As the Lead AI Engineer, you’ll be responsible for shaping the technical roadmap and making key architectural decisions across the platform.

This is not a role where requirements are handed to you. You’ll work closely with the founders to identify opportunities, define solutions, and deliver production ready systems that create real business impact.

You’ll own projects from initial concept through to deployment and iteration, helping build a scalable AI platform used by customers every day.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Designing and building core platform features, including outbound automation, lead generation, integrations, and AI agent workflows
  • Defining architecture for LLM orchestration, evaluation frameworks, observability, and agent reliability
  • Building and scaling backend systems using Python and FastAPI
  • Working with modern cloud infrastructure and data platforms
  • Shipping quickly, gathering feedback, and continuously improving the product
  • Collaborating directly with founders on product strategy and technical direction
  • Establishing engineering best practices and helping shape the future of the platform

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong experience building and shipping production software products
  • Deep expertise with Python and modern backend development
  • Experience designing scalable systems and making architectural decisions
  • Hands on experience deploying and working with LLMs in production environments
  • Understanding of prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and managing non deterministic AI behaviour
  • Strong problem solving skills and the ability to operate with ambiguity
  • A product mindset with a focus on delivering customer value

Nice to Have

  • Experience with FastAPI
  • Experience with React, Next.js, or other modern frontend frameworks
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Supabase, AWS, or Vercel
  • Previous startup or early stage company experience
  • Experience building AI agents, workflow automation platforms, or GTM tools

What Success Looks Like

  • Taking ownership of major technical decisions
  • Delivering high quality features quickly and consistently
  • Improving platform reliability, scalability, and performance
  • Helping shape product direction through close collaboration with founders
  • Building systems that customers actively use and derive value from

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