Confidential company, Engineering
Founding AI Research Engineer at early-stage AI startup
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Compensation
- Competitive + Equity
Founding AI Research Engineer (Competitive + Equity) at early-stage AI startup - Founding AI Research Engineer
What's the next step?
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Role overview
The founding AI research engineer will shape the scientific and research AI direction, working end-to-end from inception to product. This involves identifying and solving challenging problems related to retrieval, knowledge-base systems, and reasoning models. The role requires both strong scientific abilities and the capacity to build and ship production systems rapidly, contributing significantly to a fast-moving AI platform.
About the company
early-stage AI startup
What you will do
- Identify and solve challenging technical and research-level AI problems.
- Build and ship production-ready ML systems from hypothesis to user-facing application.
- Drive research and development in retrieval, knowledge-base, and reasoning models.
Who this is a fit for
- Elite PhD credentials (e.g., Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford) in ML/AI or related fields.
- Proven ability to ship and scale production ML systems, beyond just research frameworks.
- Strong in-person availability in London, thriving in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.
Why this role is remarkable
- Be instrumental in shaping the scientific and research AI direction, building products end-to-end.
- Well-funded early-stage AI startup backed by top-tier VCs.
- Opportunity to drive AI innovation from research to user-facing applications at scale.
What happens next?
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