Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Kairos AI Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Kairos AI Talent is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer in London. You will work onsite five days a week, collaborating directly with customers to turn complex enterprise workflows and documents into AI-powered software.

You will own end-to-end product areas, from frontend to data models and AI workflows, shipping solutions that meet real customer needs. The ideal candidate has 3–6 years of full-time software engineering experience, strong full-stack skills in TypeScript, React, Node.js and

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of full-time software or product engineering experience.
• Early employee or founding engineer at a top-tier, venture-backed startup.
• Degree from a highly regarded university, ideally UK top 10 or equivalent.
• Strong full-stack skills across TypeScript, React, Node.js and Python.
• Experience designing APIs, databases and backend architecture.
• Proven track record of building and shipping end-to-end products to production.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers, gathering requirements and delivering solutions.
• Comfortable taking technical ownership and making decisions in a fast-paced startup.
• Able to work onsite in Shoreditch five days per week

Responsibilities

• Own across the entire product, from frontend and backend engineering through data models and AI-powered workflows.
• Build and ship full-stack applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js and Python.
• Design APIs, databases and backend architecture and ship end-to-end products.
• Work directly with enterprise customers, gathering requirements and delivering solutions.
• Take technical ownership, ship quickly and improve based on real customer feedback.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Python

APIs design

Databases design

Backend architecture

Education

Degree from a highly regarded university

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Startup | London | upto £160k + Equity

What do aircraft, medical devices, lifts and electric vehicle batteries all have in common?

They all need to be tested, inspected and certified before they can be used.

Yet much of the industry responsible for this still runs on PDFs, spreadsheets and email.

Imagine what you could build with AI to change that.

The company

I'm working with an early-stage AI startup that's just raised $4.5m in seed funding, in a round that was 14 times oversubscribed and backed by two of the world's leading venture capital firms.

They're building AI-powered software for an enormous industry that most people probably haven't thought much about.

Every aircraft, medical device, lift, battery and building needs to go through testing, inspection and certification processes. Despite how important this work is, much of the industry still relies on Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and emails.

That’s what this company is changing.

The traction has been pretty remarkable. They've gone from one customer to having their technology deployed within six of the ten largest enterprises in their industry in just a year.

They're now looking to hire five Forward Deployed Engineers as they continue to grow.

The challenge

How do you turn decades of messy documents, manual processes and complex enterprise workflows into software that actually works?

And how do you do it quickly, without compromising on engineering quality?

Those are the problems you'll be solving.

This isn't a role where you'll spend months building features without ever speaking to the people using them.

You'll be working directly with customers, understanding how their businesses operate and building software that solves their actual problems.

You'll have ownership across the entire product, from frontend and backend engineering through to data models and AI-powered workflows.

You'll be building and shipping:

• Full-stack applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js and Python
• AI-powered workflows and LLM integrations
• Backend systems, APIs and data models
• Solutions to complex enterprise problems, working directly with customers
• End-to-end products, from initial concept through to production

You’ll own technical decisions, ship quickly and improve what you build based on real customer feedback.

What are we looking for?

• 3-6 years of full-time software or product engineering experience
• Early employee or founding engineer at a top-tier, venture-backed startup
• Degree from a highly regarded university, ideally UK top 10 or equivalent
• Strong full-stack skills across TypeScript, React, Node.js and Python
• Experience designing APIs, databases and backend architecture
• Proven track record of building and shipping end-to-end products to production
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers, gathering requirements and delivering solutions
• Comfortable taking technical ownership and making decisions in a fast-paced startup
• Able to work onsite in Shoreditch five days per week

Nice to have

• Experience with LLMs, AI applications or document intelligence
• Previous experience as a founder or founding engineer

The package

• Meaningful equity

Why would you leave a comfortable engineering job to join a 20-person startup?

How about £160k, meaningful equity, backing from two of the world's leading VCs and a product already being used by some of the biggest companies in its industry?

This is a business with serious backing, genuine enterprise adoption and an opportunity for engineers joining now to have a real influence on what gets built.

They're particularly interested in people who have already experienced the early stages of building a successful technology company and want to do it again.

The interview process

An initial 25-minute conversation with the hiring manager, followed by a 40-minute technical discussion with the Lead Engineer, a three-hour take-home assessment and a final conversation with the CTO.

Interested?