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Role: AI Product Owner
Are you an AI Engineer with backend experience who has gone deep on LLMs and wants to own an entire AI product area rather than pick up tickets on someone else's?
A hospitality technology company whose platform runs live restaurant operations is building its first AI features, and needs one person to own all of them.
📍 Fully remote, UK based.
💷 £75,000 to £100,000 plus equity
🤝 Interview Process:
3 stages:
- Conversation with the Founder,
- Technical Product Discussion with the Engineering Team,
- AI Assessment with an External Specialist including a technical test
Tech Stack:
- Python
- OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral
- RAG, embeddings and vector search
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
The platform is live, in production, and already carrying serious load. This is not a company bolting AI on to look modern. It is a company sitting on real operational data that AI can make genuinely more useful.
- Over 100 million transactions processed to date
- Around 500GB of live operational data across restaurant customers
- Series A closing, with revenue growing month on month
- An engineering team of eight: CTO, three backend, mobile, frontend, data and DevOps
The next step is turning that platform and that data into AI features restaurant operators actually use every day. That is where you come in.
You will own the AI product area end to end, as the first and only person in it.
The Role
You will work alongside the backend, data and DevOps engineers and report into the CTO, but the AI area is yours.
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You decide which models suit which problem, you build the systems, you set the quality bar, and you take the features into production.
Nobody above you will dictate the provider, and nobody below you will build it for you.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Building an AI support chatbot grounded in product documentation, support guides and internal knowledge
- Building menu ingestion, taking PDFs, photographs, spreadsheets and whatever else customers send, and turning them into structured menu data inside the point of sale system against a defined category structure
- Building natural language analytics so operators can ask "what were my top selling dishes last month", "why did sales drop this week", "which sites are underperforming", and get a real answer
- Choosing and combining models across providers based on what each job needs, and being able to explain the tradeoffs
- Designing retrieval end to end: embeddings, chunking, vector search and the document pipeline behind it
- Translating natural language into safe, correct queries against live operational data
- Building the evaluation, guardrails and fallbacks that stop the system quietly getting things wrong in front of paying customers
- Integrating all of it into the existing point of sale, dashboard and backend systems
Experience We Are Looking For:
- Strong Python with a real backend engineering background behind it
- Around eighteen months or more building with LLMs properly, not occasional experiments alongside other work
- Features you have taken all the way into production, that real users depend on
- Hands on with more than one provider, and able to argue the case for one over another. OpenAI, Claude / Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, Mistral or similar
- RAG, embeddings, vector search and document retrieval
- Structured outputs, function and tool calling
- Extracting structured data from PDFs, images, CSVs and spreadsheets
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL
- Exposure to evaluating output quality, hallucination, guardrails and fallback behaviour
- Comfortable deploying and running your own work on AWS or similar
- A startup or scaleup background where you owned something whole rather than a slice of it
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Nice To Have
- Text to SQL or semantic layer experience
- LangGraph, LlamaIndex, LangChain or similar
- OCR, document parsing and multimodal models
- Vector databases and retrieval infrastructure at scale
- Evaluation datasets and automated regression testing
- Fine tuning or model adaptation
- Restaurant, hospitality, point of sale, payments or analytics experience
- Elixir or Phoenix, or experience working alongside an Elixir backend team
This is not the role for you if you want a large AI team around you, an established platform team to lean on, or a defined backlog handed over each sprint.
It is the role for you if you have been the person building the LLM features at your current company and you now want the whole area, the model decisions, and your name on it.
This is a senior role. Not a 9-5, not a 9-9-6. Judged on output.
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