Senior Data Engineer - Stealth Start-up - London - Up to £150k

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Oliver Bernard in London is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a stealth AI start-up, delivering data infrastructure from ingestion to production systems.

You’ll work across data, platform, software and AI teams, taking ownership of complex data challenges and shaping scalable, secure pipelines with a strong engineering foundation. Equity offered.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with data pipelines, platforms or data-intensive applications.
• Strong system design and cloud experience.
• Comfortable with large, complex or messy datasets.
• High ownership, initiative and pragmatism.
• AI experience is a bonus but not essential.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Data pipelines

System design

Cloud experience

Large datasets

Ownership & initiative

AI experience (bonus)

Job description

Senior Data Engineer | Stealth AI Start-Up | London | Up to £150k

Oliver Bernard are currently partnered with one of the most exciting stealth start-ups in London, building the infrastructure behind the next generation of AI.

They’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to take real ownership of complex, data-intensive engineering problems, from large-scale ingestion and processing through to data quality, security, provenance and reliable production systems.

This is not a traditional Data Engineering role. You’ll work across Data, Platform, Software and AI, helping build foundational infrastructure from the ground up.

What they’re looking for:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with data pipelines, platforms or data-intensive applications
• Strong system design and cloud experience
• Comfortable working with large, complex or messy datasets
• High ownership, initiative and pragmatism
• AI experience is a bonus, but not essential

Why it’s interesting:

• Work directly on frontier AI infrastructure
• Build foundational systems from the ground up
• Work closely with Software, Platform & AI Engineers
• Meaningful equity

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If you’re a Data Engineer or Software Engineer who enjoys solving genuinely difficult data problems and wants to work at the cutting edge of AI,