Paires
Founding AI Engineer
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Founding AI Engineer
We are hiring our Founding AI Engineer
We are hiring our Founding AI Engineer to own the brain of an AI-first fundraising platform: the matching engine and the agents built on top of it.
Paires is where founders come to raise capital.
We pair them with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then our agents run the outreach and manage the relationships that turn into meetings. It is a two-sided platform, a product for founders and a living network on the investor side, not one-way matching. We are live with paying clients, profitable and self-funded, and we run as a small, senior, flat team that ships fast.
The role
You own our core: the two-sided matching engine that pairs founders with investors, and the agent layer that reasons over it. This is the most important surface in the product, and it is yours to build.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What you will own
- The matcher: embeddings, ranking, scoring, and the feedback loop that makes matches sharper over time.
- The agents: prompt design, evals, retrieval, and tool use that turn matches into booked meetings.
- The backend and data behind it: Python, Postgres, Supabase, clean pipelines.
- Shipping to production end to end, and the judgment to know what to build next.
You are a fit if you
- Ship LLM systems to production and have real examples you can walk us through.
- Have built retrieval, ranking, or matching with embeddings in production.
- Write strong Python and reason clearly about data and systems.
- Design evals, because you care whether the output is actually good.
- Own outcomes end to end and move fast with AI tooling.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Bonus: FastAPI, vector databases, agent frameworks, fintech or fundraising.
What we offer
Fully remote and async. The best AI tooling, paid (Claude Code, Cursor, top models). Real ownership of the core product, with equity potential for the right person. Compensation: 125,000 to 180,000 GBP per year, plus equity potential.
How to apply
Easy Apply, and answer the screening questions honestly. We read every application against a short set of must-haves.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
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