Founding AI Engineer

They’re making their first dedicated AI Engineering hire in the US - a key appointment that will work directly with the Co-Founder and senior Product leadership, with significant scope to influence the direction of their AI capability as the US engineering team grows., * Develop LLM-powered features and AI agents that solve complex, real-world intelligence problems

• Integrate new AI capabilities into an established enterprise software platform
• Take ideas from early prototype through to scalable, reliable production systems
• Work across AI architecture, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring and performance
• Build and deploy cloud-based AI services across AWS/GCP environments
• Work with large volumes of complex structured and unstructured information
• Partner closely with Product, Software Engineering and Data Science teams
• Work directly with the Co-Founder and Head of Product on the direction of the AI capability
• Help establish the foundations for a US AI Engineering team expected to grow to around five people

• 5+ years’ experience across Software Engineering, AI Engineering or Machine Learning Engineering
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production applications or systems
• Commercial experience building and deploying AI/ML systems into production
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI and/or agentic AI
• Strong Python development skills
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into broader software products and platforms
• Cloud engineering experience across AWS, GCP or similar
• Understanding of AI evaluation, monitoring, reliability, scalability and performance
• Experience with modern AI frameworks, APIs and tooling
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously in an evolving environment
• Experience with Java/Spring, NLP, RAG, information retrieval or large-scale data platforms would be highly regarded

We’re partnering with a high-growth software company building advanced open-source intelligence technology for complex, real-world intelligence environments.