As a Senior Product Engineer at Ankar AI, you will own the end-to-end execution of mission-critical AI tools. You’ll design, build, and maintain scalable systems across the full stack, translating ambiguous R&D challenges into dependable software. Working directly with users, you’ll define product specs and ship features that redefine how global enterprises manage innovation.
Senior Product Engineer at Ankar AI
Ankar AI is reinventing how companies like L'Oréal protect ideas, backed by $24M from Atomico and Index Ventures. As a Senior Product Engineer in this $1M+ ARR startup, you’ll act as a founding-level builder owning end-to-end execution of AI tools for the $1T R&D market. Join a world-class team in London to define the next 20 years of applied research while enjoying high autonomy and a significant £160k-£300k equity-inclusive package.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£160k-£300k + Equity
Company
Ankar AI
Role overview
SoftwareLondon, United KingdomSeed (VC-backed)
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., IP) — yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.
Ankar is building the AI Platform for the Trillion Dollar Innovation Economy — a suite of tools that helps inventors explore, create, and protect ideas. We’re removing the friction from the invention process, starting with IP protection and expanding toward creation and exploration.
We’re already seeing this vision come to life:
Achieved $1M+ ARR, with 75% of this coming in the last 5 months Loved by F500 companies & top law firms, with 60% of new business from word-of-mouth Assembled a world-class team from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle to next frontier of invention creation and creation expanding into a $1T+ market Raised £3m from Index Ventures, founder of Hugging Face, CEO of Datadog, and product leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI. We’re now expanding the team and looking for builders who want to own ambitious projects autonomously, solve impactful & complex problems, and do their best work at Ankar.
Backed by Index Ventures, Daphni, Motier Ventures, Booom, Puzzle Ventures, Olivier Pomel, Julien Chaumond.
What you will do
- Design and implement scalable, reliable product experiences across the frontend and backend to solve complex R&D and IP workflow problems.
- Ship features rapidly in a high-autonomy environment, iterating based on direct feedback from Fortune 500 customers and global law firms.
- Partner with product and design teams to bridge technical feasibility with user needs, ensuring software is impactful and production-ready.
Who this is a fit for
- 5-12 years of professional engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping production-grade software in fast-paced environments.
- Strong startup experience, preferably as an early employee or founding engineer, with a builder’s mindset and ability to thrive in ambiguity.
- Exceptional product sense and technical versatility, capable of owning features end-to-end across the stack while maintaining a high bar for quality.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-growth team with $1M+ ARR and backing from top-tier VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, and leaders from OpenAI and DeepMind.
- Take on a founding-engineer-level ownership role where you define technical specs and product direction rather than just executing predefined tasks.
- Work at the cutting edge of AI, building tools that secure the 90% of S&P 500 value tied to intangible intellectual property assets.
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