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Posted 28 Aug 2026

Founding Applied AI Engineer

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
28 Aug 2026

About the role

This is a founding applied-AI role. You'll be building our core data pipeline and intelligence layer with the founding team from 0 to 1 You'll be tackling our largest technical challenges across technologies.


Responsibilities:

  • Design and build data pipelines that capture and turn high volumes of system activity into structured, queryable data.
  • Turn raw activity streams into processes: sessionise event logs, cluster recurring sequences, and use LLMs to label and summarise what's happening.
  • Build the evaluation backbone from scratch: stand up synthetic data generation pipelines that produce labelled scenarios to measure accuracy and catch regressions.
  • Own data quality and privacy.
  • Partner closely with the founders and the rest of engineering to ship features end to end.


Requirements:

  • 1-4 years of experience in data engineering, AI/ML engineering, or backend work with a data focus (some of this can be project or research experience).
  • Strong in Python and/or TypeScript, comfortable in SQL, and able to build data pipelines you can trust.
  • Hands-on experience working with LLMs' structured output, prompting, and wrangling non-determinism while keeping behaviour reliable.
  • A practical sense for evaluation: you know that "it looks right" isn't the same as "it's measurably right".
  • Care about data privacy and handling sensitive information responsibly.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a real appetite to own a hard, open-ended problem.


Nice to Have:

  • Background in process mining, sequence / event-log analysis, or workflow analytics.
  • Deeper PostgreSQL: window functions, partitioning, pg_cron, query performance.
  • Embeddings and vector search (pgvector) or semantic retrieval.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.
  • Any prior early-stage startup experience.
  • Degree in computer science or a related field.

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