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Founding AI Research Engineer
Job Title: Founding AI Research Engineer
Location: London Salary: Up to £120,000 DOE
A well-funded AI startup building deeply personalised models that understand the full context of how you work is hiring a Founding AI Research Engineer to help shape its scientific and research direction from the ground up.
This is a rare opportunity to join at founding level and work end to end across some of the hardest problems in applied AI today, including:
- Retrieval and knowledge base systems
- Reasoning models
- Models that understand information live on screen and across applications
You will take projects from inception through to product, with genuine ownership over both the research and the engineering.
This role suits someone who enjoys:
- Solving deep technical and research-level problems
- Building products end to end rather than handing off at the research stage
- Staying close to the cutting edge of NLP, vision, and related fields
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What We Are Looking For
Minimum Requirements
- BSc or MSc from a Russell Group university, minimum 2:1
- 5+ years of experience solving comparable problems in academic or industrial settings
- A strong track record across:
- Scientific workflows, such as forming and testing hypotheses
- Engineering workflows, such as building robust, scalable products
- The ability to read and critically engage with current AI and NLP research, and to implement and build upon it
- Hands-on experience with NLP, LLMs, or other applied AI and ML
- Strong programming skills (particularly Python)
- Experience with:
- Cloud infrastructure
- Database technologies (including SQL and NoSQL)
- Ability to self-organise and operate independently in a fast-moving environment
- Based in or willing to relocate to London (Visa sponsorship available)
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Strong Bonus Points
- A deep background in:
- Machine Learning
- Computer Science
- Statistics
- Physics
- Mathematics, ideally including a research degree or industrial research experience
- Experience with C++ or Rust
- A track record of open-source contribution or notable independent technical projects
Why This Role?
This is a founding-level position with:
- Significant equity upside
- The chance to shape both the technical direction and culture of the company from an early stage.
- Work at the genuine frontier of personalised AI, tackling problems few teams worldwide are addressing at this depth.
Visa sponsorship available for candidates relocating to London.
If your background fits, apply [here].
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