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Founding Applied AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Weekday · London, ENG, GB

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

This role is for one of our clients

Location: London (On-site)

Experience: 3–10 years

Stage: Seed Series B

Role Type: Early hire / founding engineer

Why This Role Exists

You’ll build the next generation of production-grade AI systems — agents that reason, act, and operate reliably in messy, real-world environments.

What You’ll Do

Design and ship agentic AI systems

Build RAG pipelines and tool-using agents

Deploy and monitor LLM workloads in production

Focus on evaluation, reliability, and safety

Integrate AI into core product workflows

Work closely with founders and customers

What We’re Looking For

Experience shipping AI systems to real users

Deep familiarity with agents, RAG, orchestration

Python-first

Production ML / LLM operations experience

Comfort operating in early-stage environments

Nice to Have

LangGraph / Temporal / orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

HIPAA / SOC-2 systems

Terraform / Kubernetes

Edge or real-time AI systems

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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