Founding Engineer, AI Agent Systems

C&D Talent Advisory; Hitchin; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EMI-Eligible equity

King's Cross office with roof terrace

Top-decile London compensation

Job summary

C&D Talent Advisory is seeking a Founding Engineer to own the agent platform in a seed-stage startup. You will design multi-step agent workflows, tool-calling, and secure sandboxing while ensuring production-grade AI reliability and governance.

This on-site London role offers significant ownership and the chance to shape a new risk infrastructure for regulated industries. The position requires strong backend engineering with TypeScript/Node.js expertise and experience shipping production AI

Qualifications

• Strong professional backend engineering experience.
• 1-2+ years shipping production LLM-powered features.
• Solid experience with TypeScript or Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core agent orchestration platform.
• Design multi-step agent workflows and tool-calling systems.
• Own AI reliability and production-grade quality standards.
• Operate with high ownership in a founding-stage startup context.

Skills

Strong backend

TypeScript

Node.js

Production AI

Agent frameworks

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Postgres

GitHub Actions

Job description

C&D Talent Advisory is seeking a Founding Engineer to own the agent platform in a seed-stage startup. You will design multi-step agent workflows, tool-calling, and secure sandboxing while ensuring production-grade AI reliability and governance.

This on-site London role offers significant ownership and the chance to shape a new risk infrastructure for regulated industries. The position requires strong backend engineering with TypeScript/Node.js expertise and experience shipping production AI