AI Product Engineer (up to £150k)

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is partnering with a founder‑led team building the first AI‑native certification body to assess AI systems for security, reliability, and expected behavior.

You will join a small founding team as a Product Engineer, owning features end‑to‑end across frontend, backend, and AI‑agent infrastructure, shaping the harnesses, evals, and safeguards used to certify AI systems.

Qualifications

• Shipped real systems with decisions on agent harnesses, evals, sandboxing, or multi‑component design.
• Proven ability to ship across the interface, backend, data, and deployment layers.
• Reasons from first principles, choosing tools deliberately rather than following a playbook.
• Evidence of exceptional output: open‑source contributions, personal projects, research, or hackathon results.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement full‑stack product features, from user interface to backend services.
• Build the core AI agent infrastructure and evaluation frameworks for system certification.
• Define and implement critical safeguards for AI systems, including agent sandboxing and hallucination containment.
• Drive product development from initial concept through to production deployment, ensuring direct impact on audit outcomes.
• Contribute to the technical architecture and foundational engineering practices of a nascent team.

Skills

Agent harnesses

Eval frameworks

Sandboxing

Multi‑component design

Frontend and Backend

Job description

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

The role

This company is building the first AI-native certification body, independently assessing whether AI systems are secure, reliable, and behaving as intended. Founded by engineers who spent years deploying enterprise AI across regulated industries, they are backed by leading investors and already have paying enterprise customers.

You'll join a genuinely small, founding team as a Product Engineer, owning products end-to-end across the front end, back end, and the AI-agent infrastructure. This isn't building on top of an existing process; it's building the process itself: the harnesses, evals, and safeguards that decide whether an AI system's behavior can be certified. Your decisions on agent sandboxing, hallucination containment, and tool design will define how AI systems are audited.

The work

• Design and implement full-stack product features, from user interface to backend services.
• Build the core AI agent infrastructure and evaluation frameworks for system certification.
• Define and implement critical safeguards for AI systems, including agent sandboxing and hallucination containment.
• Drive product development from initial concept through to production deployment, ensuring direct impact on audit outcomes.
• Contribute to the technical architecture and foundational engineering practices of a nascent team.

What You Bring

• Shipped real systems where you made substantive decisions on agent harnesses, evals, hallucination containment, sandboxing, or multi-component system/tool design.
• Proven ability to ship across the interface, backend, data, and deployment layers.
• Reasons from first principles, choosing tools deliberately rather than following a playbook.
• Evidence of exceptional output: professional work, open-source contributions, personal products, research, or hackathon results. Roughly 2+ years in a role is useful, but the evidence matters more than the tenure.

Why apply through Dex

Dex helps you cut through the noise: get a proper brief, and skip the cold outreach. We match you to this role and others like it, ensuring you only consider opportunities that genuinely fit.