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San Francisco, United StatesNot Disclosed + Equity

Founding Engineer at VC-backed enterprise AI startup

Are you an AI Engineer ready to disrupt a $50B industry? Join a team of Meta and high-growth startup veterans as a Founding Engineer building the future of enterprise trust. You will architect agentic AI systems that transform manual auditing into real-time, autonomous risk management. This rare founding role offers significant equity, the chance to shape a product from the ground up, and potential relocation support from London to San Francisco. If you thrive on autonomy and want to solve complex, high-impact engineering challenges, this is your opportunity to build the next generation of enterprise infrastructure.

Overview

Role overview

You will be a foundational member of a team building an autonomous trust layer for enterprise auditing. By developing sophisticated agentic AI workflows, you will automate complex compliance processes and shift auditing from a manual burden to real-time risk navigation. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape technical architecture from day one.

Company

About the company

VC-backed enterprise AI startup

Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Architect and scale the core product backbone, moving from initial scoping to launching agentic features.
  • Own end-to-end AI workflows including data processing, model fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.
  • Set the technical and product roadmap while balancing direct customer feedback with long-term engineering health.

Candidate profile

Who this is a fit for

  • Proven experience building and scaling production-grade agentic systems or LLM-based infrastructure at top-tier tech companies.
  • Exceptional engineering pragmatism with the ability to thrive in high-autonomy, high-ambiguity startup environments.
  • Entrepreneurial drive with a desire to own problems end-to-end and eventually found their own company.

What makes it remarkable

Why this role is remarkable

  • Join a founding team of Meta and high-growth startup alumni building the backbone of a $50B market.
  • Work on cutting-edge agentic systems that replace manual enterprise workflows with proactive, intelligent solutions.
  • Benefit from significant equity and the opportunity to relocate from London to San Francisco with full visa support.

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