Hybrid Founding AI Engineer

Posted 18 hours ago

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About the role

  • Founding AI Engineer position at Grand focused on building and managing AI systems and ensuring their safe operations. Collaborate closely with founders and other teams in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the runtime and orchestration layer for AI systems across the platform
  • Turn probabilistic AI outputs into controlled, repeatable system behaviour
  • Define how AI decisions are triggered, gated, validated, and executed
  • Build guardrails, fallbacks, and confidence thresholds into AI flows
  • Design human-in-the-loop and escalation paths where required
  • Own prompt lifecycle management, evaluation, and versioning
  • Manage context assembly, scoping, and data boundaries for AI tasks
  • Build systems for logging, tracing, replay, and auditability
  • Control latency, cost, reliability, and degradation in production
  • Partner closely with AI data scientists to productionise models and signals
  • Collaborate with product engineers to integrate AI safely into workflows
  • Ensure AI systems are defensible, inspectable, and regulator-ready

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals
  • Proven experience shipping AI or LLM-based systems into production
  • Experience designing distributed systems with state, retries, and failure handling
  • Comfort working with probabilistic systems in high-consequence environments
  • Experience building guardrails, validation layers, or control flows around AI
  • Strong understanding of observability, logging, and system diagnostics
  • Experience managing model or prompt lifecycles in real systems
  • Ability to reason clearly about failure modes and degradation
  • Clear communicator who can explain complex system behaviour plainly
  • High technical judgment and strong ownership instincts

Benefits

  • Excellent Salary: Competitive and reflective of the responsibilities of a founding role
  • Equity Options: Meaningful ownership in a long-term company
  • Hybrid Work: At least 3 days in our London or Dublin office
  • Extended Remote Work on Request: Outcomes matter more than optics
  • Builders, Not Tourists: Work with people who care deeply about getting this right

Job title

Founding AI Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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