Founding Engineer
Package : £80,000 - £150,000 + Equity % (Depending on experience)
Location : UK based (Hybrid)
Bloom have been retained by an innovative, early-stage AI startup spun out of South Park Commons, and we are looking for a founding engineer to join their journey.
The founding team have a very impressive background, having built AI products from scratch at some very well known businesses, led Product and Strategy teams at Google, conducted research at Oxford and Imperial College on generative media and natural language processing and have been backed by leading investors and venture capital firms
You will be building and developing intelligent operating systems tailored to the needs of creative professionals. The product's autonomous agents are designed to understand, generate, and process content across various media formats, including text, audio, video, and images, aiming to enhance creative workflows and knowledge-based work.
What You’ll Do
As a founding engineer, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping both the product and the company from the ground up. Your main focus will be on building software that enhances creative processes through AI-driven solutions.
Key responsibilities include :
- Designing and developing a backend system that supports various agent-based workflows to streamline creative tasks.
- Building large-scale data pipelines to power media processing, search, and reasoning capabilities using vector databases and multimodal LLMs across text, image, video, and audio.
- Leading technical projects from inception to completion, with a focus on user needs and strategic prioritization.
- Ensuring the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the technical infrastructure, writing clean and maintainable code.
- Helping shape the engineering culture, defining the tech stack, and guiding tech investments for immediate and future requirements
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What You’ll Need ️
- 3-5+ years of experience in cloud-based software development, ideally with Python.
- Experience in developing products centered around large language models (LLMs) is highly desirable.
- A strong background in software design and architecture, with a focus on scalability and rapid deployment.
- Excellent collaboration skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively.
- A deep interest in artificial intelligence and the application of large language models in problem-solving.
- A results-driven approach, prioritizing practical solutions over perfection.
Bonus Skills
- Experience as an early engineer in a high-growth startup environment.
- Familiarity with building large-scale data pipelines in cloud environments.
- Experience developing AI agents using tools like Langgraph, Langchain, or Autogen.
- Knowledge of vector databases such as Pinecone, Postgres pgvector, or Weaviate.
- Previous experience creating or contributing to creative tools, with a portfolio demonstrating your work.
Why Join?
- Be part of reimagining the future of creative work, with the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and build innovative solutions.
- Work in a close-knit team. You’ll be a core member of the founding team and directly influence the future direction of the company.
- Tackle exciting challenges, such as building multi-modal reasoning agents and creating solutions that combine visual and textual data for better decision-making.
- Join a well-funded, ambitious company supported by top-tier investors, including early backers of major tech innovations like Notion, Vimeo, and Patreon.
If you're interested, please apply (Unfortunately, we cannot provide VISA sponsorship).
