Founding AI Engineer

Founding AI EngineerAI models are improving quickly. Making them reliable enough to trust in production is a much harder problem. This is a chance to tackle that problem from the ground up as one of the first engineers at a well-funded AI startup.What’s in it for you?Meaningful equity alongside a competitive salary and bonusJoin early enough to have real influence over the product and architectureWork directly with experienced founders on difficult, unsolved AI problemsBuild technology that will be used by enterprise customersOwn projects from initial idea through to productionHelp establish the engineering culture and technical standardsOpportunity to grow into a senior technical leadership position as the team expandsWhat you’ll be buildingThe focus is on making AI applications measurable, testable and dependable enough for real-world use.Your work will include:Building production applications and systems powered by LLMsDeveloping evaluation frameworks to measure model quality and behaviourCreating automated testing and validation tooling for AI systemsBuilding scalable ML infrastructure, services and APIsRunning experiments to understand and improve model performanceFine-tuning and evaluating modern language modelsDeveloping tools that identify weaknesses and failure modes in AI applicationsShipping reliable software across the full ML lifecycleYou’ll likely have:Experience building and shipping production software systemsHands-on experience working with machine learning and LLMsExperience evaluating, training or fine-tuning modern language modelsStrong Python engineering skillsExperience deploying ML systems into productionThe ability to take an ambiguous problem and turn it into something that worksStrong technical judgement and a willingness to make decisions without perfect information