Founding AI Engineer — Equity & Real Impact

Experis; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Experis in Reading seeks a Founding Engineer to develop AI-powered products. You'll build and deploy applications using modern LLM APIs and scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with LLMs, and a background in backend systems and cloud infrastructure. Join a dynamic team working directly with founders to create impactful solutions for real-world problems.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, or AI product development.
• Bonus if you've worked in start-ups, developer platforms, data infrastructure, or applied ML environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI-powered applications using modern LLM APIs and open-source models.
• Develop scalable backend systems using Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native tooling.
• Work with AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar tooling.
• Deploy and manage AI infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate AI systems into customer workflows, internal tooling, and external APIs.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Job description

Experis in Reading seeks a Founding Engineer to develop AI-powered products. You'll build and deploy applications using modern LLM APIs and scalable backend systems. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with LLMs, and a background in backend systems and cloud infrastructure. Join a dynamic team working directly with founders to create impactful solutions for real-world problems.