Confidential company, Operations
AI Specialist (Founding Team) at privacy-focused AI productivity startup
- Location
- Remote (United Kingdom)
- Compensation
- Not Disclosed + Equity
Join a pre-launch founding team building a privacy-first AI workspace that acts as a unified conversation layer over all your tools, ensuring security is the product rather than just a feature. As the AI Specialist, you will have complete ownership of the AI core, architecting the agentic layer and RAG pipelines that allow teams to act on context seamlessly.
This is a unique equity-only opportunity for a hands-on builder to secure a founder-level stake in a high-potential startup, perfect for those ready to ship production-ready LLM features and build something substantial from the ground up.
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Role overview
As a founding AI Specialist, you will architect the core retrieval pipeline and agentic layer for a privacy-first workspace. You’ll build RAG systems with citations, manage model routing, and develop evaluation frameworks. This hands-on role involves shipping production-ready LLM features that automate workflows across various enterprise tools while maintaining strict security.
About the company
Privacy-focused AI productivity startup
What you will do
- Own the AI core, including the RAG pipeline, agentic planning layer, and model routing strategy.
- Integrate diverse data sources via MCP to enable seamless AI actions across tools like Slack and GitHub.
- Establish rigorous evaluation practices to ensure high-quality, cited answers and reliable agent execution.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience shipping production LLM features, specifically RAG with citations and tool-calling agents.
- Strong full-stack capabilities, comfortable building backends, integrations, and the interfaces surrounding AI models.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a history of building substantial projects independently or as an early startup employee.
Why this role is remarkable
- True founding-team ownership with a significant equity stake and influence over the product’s architectural direction.
- Work on cutting-edge agentic AI and MCP integrations within a privacy-first, encrypted-by-design framework.
- Early-stage opportunity to build a unified conversation layer over fragmented enterprise tools before public launch.
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