Founding Engineer

Engineering · London

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The role

The Founding Engineer is in the ultimate cross-sectional position, and will be involved in solving tough algorithmic problems, managing the entire tech stack, and building products end-to-end.

This will include building highly performant desktop applications, both frontend and backend, as well as working on algorithmic development and closely with others on the team, especially AI engineers.

The role the Founding Engineer plays is limited only by their ability and ambition. The successful candidate must be an especially fast learner and problem solver with the ability to recognise and solve, or learn to solve, almost any problem that may arise.

You’ll love this role if you enjoy…

Identifying and solving very challenging technical and research-level problems.
Building products end-to-end, from algorithm development and experimentation all the way to UI/UX.
Learning and keeping abreast of current research and developments related to LLMs/NLP, vision, and more.
Helping identify and tackle any technical challenge that may emerge.
Pushing beyond your comfort zone and maximising your potential.

Requirements and experience

5+ years of experience working on similar projects.
Strong programming skills, ideally in Typescript, Python, and/or Rust/C++.
A strong track record of solving difficult problems in either an academic or industrial setting.
A strong track record displaying the ability to manage engineering workflows, such as building robust and scalable products and working with users requests, and ideally also managing scientific processes, such as forming and testing hypotheses.
Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers and database technologies, such as SQL/no-SQL.
Ability to self-organise and work independently.
Based in, or willing to relocate to London. We are open to sponsoring visas.

Nice to haves

Experience working with NLP/LLMs or other AI/ML.
An ML, statistics, or mathematics background or experience.
Major work on infrastructure-heavy projects, such as complex data pipelines.
Work building desktop applications or front ends.
Experience working on open-source projects, an interesting side project, or contributing to Stack Exchange or similar.

What we offer