Stealth AI
Founding AI Engineer - Real-time AI
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Founding AI Engineer — Real-Time AI (Equity only role)
Remote (UK/Europe) · Stealth startup · Founding role
This is an equity-only role. No salary, however meaningful equity available. Hours flexible.
We are building a new AI product at the intersection of real-time AI, conversational intelligence and human-computer interaction. We are looking for an exceptional Founding AI Engineer to work directly with the founder and take the core technology from 0→1.
The role
You will own the design and development of the core AI systems, working across:
- LLMs and agentic systems
- real-time / low-latency AI
- conversational context and reasoning
- memory and retrieval
- personalisation and decisioning
- streaming systems and AI infrastructure
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You will be expected to move comfortably between research, architecture and production engineering, rapidly turning ideas into working prototypes.
We are looking for
- Exceptional software engineering fundamentals; Python required.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLMs, agents and modern AI systems.
- Ideally experience with conversational AI, speech/audio, personalisation or decision / recommender systems
- Strong systems architecture and product engineering instincts.
- Someone who has shipped ambitious AI products, ideally in a 0→1 environment.
- Comfortable operating independently, making technical decisions and moving quickly with limited resources.
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We are not looking for a conventional ML engineer or prompt engineer. We want someone capable of owning a technically ambitious AI product end-to-end.
London/UK preferred. Meaningful founding-level equity. The company is currently stealth. NDA required before detailed product disclosure. If you're an exceptional engineer who wants to build something genuinely new at the intersection of AI and human interaction, we'd like to hear from you.
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