Join LEC AI as an AI Founding Engineer to build Bishop, a foundation model for structured data, and Donnie, an agentic orchestration layer. You will write production code daily, making high-stakes architectural decisions that power diverse applications across energy trading, sports markets, and risk pricing, while leading a small, elite engineering team.
AI Founding Engineer at LEC AI
Join LEC AI as an AI Founding Engineer in London to build the future of agentic intelligence and structured data foundation models. As part of an elite team drawing from firms like DeepMind and Jane Street, you'll develop Bishop and Donnie—platforms powering a suite of new product companies in trading and risk. This is a rare chance to own core architecture with the backing of a 74-year trading legacy, offering the upside of a startup with the resources of a global group. Whether you scale the core OS or lead a new venture, you'll ship high-impact code every day.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed + Equity
Company
LEC AI
Role overview
LEC AI is the technology arm of the London Export Corporation, a group with 74 years of trading history, now building a proprietary ecosystem of foundation models and agentic platforms to power a portfolio of specialized AI product companies.
What you will do
- Develop and ship production-ready code for Bishop’s training pipelines or Donnie’s multi-agent memory architecture every week.
- Architect the model serving infrastructure and data pipelines that handle real-world operational signals, prices, and time-series data.
- Lead and mentor a small, high-performance engineering team while working directly with the Group CEO on technical strategy.
Who this is a fit for
- Approximately 8 years of experience building production systems at elite AI labs like DeepMind or OpenAI, or top-tier quantitative trading firms like Citadel.
- Deep technical expertise in foundation model fine-tuning, multi-agent orchestration, or low-latency distributed systems with a strong academic background from a leading institution.
- A builder mindset with recent hands-on experience; you are an exceptional engineer who prefers shipping code over sitting in management meetings.
Why this role is remarkable
- You will build foundation models (Bishop) and agentic systems (Donnie) from the ground up, moving beyond generic LLMs into high-value structured data.
- Backed by a 74-year trading legacy, LEC AI combines the agility of a startup with deep capital reserves and a compounding moat of proprietary training data.
- Choose your impact: either scale the core platform infrastructure or take ownership as the technical lead for a new product company within the ecosystem.
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