xTensor Capital
Founding Engineer
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Founding Engineer
About xTensor
xTensor Labs is the R&D and technical arm of a new investment group focused on decentralised AI - backing startups that use protocols like Bittensor to gain an edge over traditional AI companies. We were founded by two ex-traditional-finance investors with five years in crypto. Small team, well-resourced, working directly with the founders.
The role
You would be our first technical hire, and the most senior. You will own the entire technical stack: subnet analytics products (including TAO View, a "Bloomberg for Bittensor subnets" already in prototype), research and due-diligence tooling, on-chain data pipelines, and infrastructure monitoring. You set the engineering bar and hire the team behind you over the next 12 months.
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What we are looking for
- 10+ years backend / ML systems experience; you have shipped real products to production
- Strong Python; Rust or CUDA a bonus
- Real ML engineering experience - you have trained or served models, optimised inference (vLLM, SGLang or similar)
- Solid distributed-systems footing: Kubernetes, observability, real production failure experience
- Crypto / on-chain fluency, or the curiosity to ramp very fast. Hands-on Bittensor experience is a major plus
- Founding-engineer mentality: ownership, ambiguity tolerance, comfortable building without a spec
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What we offer
- £100k–£150k base, depending on experience
- Founding-level equity
- A founding seat on a small team at one of the most interesting intersections in tech
- Remote initially, hybrid working within the next 6 months - small London office, ~2–3 days/week in person
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