Understanding Recruitment
Founding Engineer
Requirements
Candidates should have experience in applied AI companies or high-performance engineering environments. The role is suited for those who can handle ambiguity and want to contribute significantly to an early-stage company.
Job Description
Founding Engineer
📍 London (Onsite)
💰 Up to £180k Base + Equity
🌍 Visa Sponsorship Available
A venture-backed, seed-stage AI company is seeking Founding Engineers to help build and scale the next generation of enterprise software.
The business is applying advances in AI, automation and software engineering to transform complex operational workflows that have historically relied on fragmented systems and significant manual effort.
Having achieved exceptional early commercial traction, the company is continuing to expand its engineering team as it enters the next stage of growth.
Responsibilities include:
• Building AI-powered products used by enterprise customers in production environments
• Designing and deploying agent-based workflows and LLM-powered systems
• Working with retrieval systems, semantic search and modern AI tooling
• Building customer-facing applications, backend services and supporting infrastructure
• Taking ideas from concept through to deployment and iteration
Engineers are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership, working across product, AI systems, infrastructure and customer-facing challenges rather than within a narrowly defined role.
The team is interested in candidates from applied AI companies, trading, top technology firms, elite startups and other high-performance engineering environments, as well as individuals who have demonstrated exceptional ability through founding, building or scaling products from an early stage.
This opportunity is best suited to engineers who enjoy ambiguity, move quickly, and want to play a meaningful role in building an ambitious company from an early stage. Message Chris Williams for more details.
Skills
About Understanding Recruitment
The Understanding Recruitment Universe Understanding Recruitment is the go-to destination for technology recruitment with headquarters in St. Albans, England. Specialising in Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, and Web3, our team of over 90 recruiters is adept in navigating the dynamic landscapes of Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Golang, .NET, DevOps, Product Management, and other tech roles within the Software Development Lifecycle. As your total talent solution partner, we seamlessly connect organisations with top-tier talent and empower tech professionals to discover their perfect fit within the ever-evolving tech industry. We offer unparalleled matches and comprehensive support across the UK, Europe, and the USA. In 2023, Understanding Recruitment became a 60% employee-owned company. This exciting development empowers our dedicated team to share in the financial rewards of our ongoing success. In the same year, we were recognised in Recruiter's annual FAST 50 listing, as the No.1 fastest-growing privately-owned recruitment business in the UK. Our in-house training programme also won a prestigious Princess Royal Training Award that is awarded to employers in the UK and Ireland who can prove that their outstanding training and skills development programmes have resulted in exceptional benefits for their business. With over a decade of success, 2022 marked the year we secured the much coveted Best Companies 3-star accreditation with a remarkable BCI score of 738 or higher, signifying 'world-class' workplace engagement. We've also been honoured as the 'Best Staffing Firm to Work For' for three consecutive years (2016-2018), and were named 'Business of the Year' at the 2017 SME Hertfordshire Business Awards.