Founding AI Engineer — Architect an Internal AI Platform

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is partnering with a top-tier venture firm to hire the first dedicated engineering leader for an internal AI platform. You will own the architecture and product direction, collaborating directly with partners to implement ML-driven capabilities and scalable systems.

You will shape how the firm identifies the next generation of founders by building end-to-end AI tooling, APIs, and data pipelines, with significant autonomy and impact in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering.
• Proven experience integrating APIs (CRMs, calendars, data platforms) and working with LLMs/AI-enabled workflows.
• Built products from zero to production with significant autonomy, ideally in an early-stage setting.
• Strong backend system design and data architecture skills including data scraping and structuring.
• Solid understanding of security and compliance for internal systems handling sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Integrate disparate tools and external APIs into a unified AI platform.
• Automate data ingestion and CRM updates from unstructured text and notes.
• Develop meeting intelligence workflows extracting actions and context from transcripts.
• Define platform architecture and roadmap from concept to production.
• Build and deploy predictive ML models for founder identification and portfolio risk.

Skills

Python

Backend development

API integration

AI workflows

Full-stack

Job description

Dex is partnering with a top-tier venture firm to hire the first dedicated engineering leader for an internal AI platform. You will own the architecture and product direction, collaborating directly with partners to implement ML-driven capabilities and scalable systems.

You will shape how the firm identifies the next generation of founders by building end-to-end AI tooling, APIs, and data pipelines, with significant autonomy and impact in a high-growth environment.