Founding AI Engineer

Founding AI Engineer – Applied AI / Computer Vision - London / Hybrid We’re looking for a Founding AI Engineer to join an exciting pre-seed video / computer vision start-up building cutting-edge agentic workflows and AI-powered video tools used in large-scale media environments. With multiple deals signed, now is a terrific time to join. This is a rare opportunity to become the first dedicated AI hire in a fast-moving revenue generating startup already running frontier AI models in production. You’ll work directly with the founders, own AI engineering end-to-end, and have a major impact across product quality, infrastructure efficiency and technical direction. We’re looking for a high calibre AI Engineer that will be a key hire where you’ll make a significant contribution to the product, with high autonomy and working on the next generation of product. What we’re looking for: 5+ years’ experience within Applied AI / ML / MLOpsStrong Python and production AI systems experienceExperience with LLMs, Generative AI, prompt engineering or agentic workflowsExposure to AI infrastructure, deployment, evals or optimisationStartup mindset with a hands-on, product-focused approachComputer vision / video / VFX / rendering / graphics experience beneficial What’s on offer: £100k - £140k base + equityFounding-level ownership1 day a fortnight in London Greenfield AI engineering challengesDirect collaboration with founders If you enjoy building practical AI systems, moving quickly and solving real-world problems with modern AI tooling then we’d love to hear from you. Sound like your kind of challenge? Apply now for immediate consideration or for a chat.