Platform Recruitment
Founding AI Research Engineer
Requirements
Candidates should have a BSc or MSc from a Russell Group university and at least 5 years of relevant experience. A strong track record in scientific and engineering workflows, along with hands-on experience in NLP and applied AI, is required.
Job Description
Job Title: Founding AI Research Engineer
Location: London
Salary: Up to £120,000 DOE
A well-funded AI startup building deeply personalised models that understand the full context of how you work is hiring a Founding AI Research Engineer to help shape its scientific and research direction from the ground up.
This is a rare opportunity to join at founding level and work end to end across some of the hardest problems in applied AI today, including retrieval and knowledge base systems, reasoning models, and models that understand information live on screen and across applications. You will take projects from inception through to product, with genuine ownership over both the research and the engineering.
This role suits someone who enjoys solving deep technical and research level problems, building products end to end rather than handing off at the research stage, and staying close to the cutting edge of NLP, vision, and related fields.
What we are looking for
- BSc or MSc from a Russell Group university, minimum 2:1
- 5+ years of experience solving comparable problems in either academic or industrial settings
- A strong track record across both scientific workflows, such as forming and testing hypotheses, and engineering workflows, such as building robust, scalable products
- The ability to read and critically engage with current AI and NLP research, and to implement and build upon it
- Hands on experience with NLP, LLMs, or other applied AI and ML
- Strong programming skills, particularly Python
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and database technologies, including SQL and NoSQL
- Ability to self organise and operate independently in a fast moving environment
- Based in or willing to relocate to London. Visa sponsorship available for the right candidate
Particularly strong candidates will also have
- A deep background in ML, computer science, statistics, physics, or mathematics, ideally including a research degree or industrial research experience
- Experience with C++ or Rust
- A track record of open source contribution or notable independent technical projects
Why this role
This is a founding level position with significant equity upside and the chance to shape both the technical direction and culture of the company from an early stage. The work sits at the genuine frontier of personalised AI, and you will be working on problems that few teams anywhere are tackling at this depth.
Visa sponsorship is available for candidates relocating to London.
If your background fits, apply below.
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About Platform Recruitment
Platform Recruitment - Partnering with innovative companies, connecting them with exceptional talent. At Platform Recruitment we have a proven track record of delivering the best candidates into a variety of roles, working with clients that vary from new start-ups to some of the world’s largest corporations. We take the time to fully understand our candidates and their motivations so that we can introduce them to the right companies for them. We then support them throughout their journey to finding and starting in their new job. We partner with clients all over the UK, USA and Europe to cut out any burden the recruitment process creates for them, whether they're large multinationals or smaller start-ups. This successful partnership approach is fundamental to several exclusive agreements currently in place, with more being added every week. Our business model is based around continuously engaging with the best, most niche and in-demand technical candidates in the market. This gives us a distinct advantage when matching expert technical talent with some of the best companies in the UK, USA, Germany and across Europe.