Founding AI Engineer

Softweb Resourcing Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-level ownership

Equity

Hybrid work in London

Greenfield AI engineering challenges

Direct collaboration with founders

Job summary

Softweb Resourcing Limited is seeking a Founding AI Engineer for a London-based, hybrid role. You will own end-to-end AI engineering for a fast-moving startup, working directly with founders to shape product quality, infrastructure, and technical direction.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Applied AI/ML/MLOps, strong Python, and experience with LLMs and prompt engineering. Equity and founding-level ownership are offered, with one day per fortnight in London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience within Applied AI / ML / MLOps.
• Experience building eval frameworks.
• Strong Python and production AI systems experience.
• Experience with LLMs, Generative AI, prompt engineering or agentic workflows.
• Startup mindset with a hands-on, product-focused approach.
• Computer vision / video / VFX / rendering / graphics experience beneficial.

Skills

Applied AI / ML / MLOps

Python

LLMs / Generative AI

Eval frameworks

Startup mindset

Computer vision / video

Job description

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 / MLOps
• Experience building eval frameworks
• Strong Python and production AI systems experience
• Experience with LLMs, Generative AI, prompt engineering or agentic workflows
• Startup mindset with a hands-on, product-focused approach
• Computer vision / video / VFX / rendering / graphics experience beneficial

What’s on offer:

• £100k - £150k base + equity
• Founding-level ownership
• 1 day a fortnight in London
• Greenfield AI engineering challenges
• Direct 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.