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Applied AI Engineer

McGregor BoyallLondon, UK🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 20 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

You can make a significant impact by shaping the future of a groundbreaking AI assistant in this fully remote, early-stage opportunity. This role offers excellent career growth potential and a chance to build production-grade AI systems, making it ideal for experienced AI/ML engineers who thrive in fast-paced, innovative environments. With a highly competitive salary and equity, this is an exciting chance to join a well-funded startup and define technical direction.

Quick Overview

Salary
£80k - £180k/yr
Work Type
Remote
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Applied AI EngineerAI StartupLocation: Fully Remote (Europe)Salary: £80,000 - £180,000 + EquityThe Role I'm working with a well-funded, stealth AI company building a next-generation AI assistant designed to help people manage everyday tasks, conversations and workflows.The product is still pre-launch, making this a genuine 0?1 opportunity to join a small, high-calibre engineering team and help shape both the product and technical direction from an early stage.They're hiring across multiple levels, from experienced AI Engineers through to Principal Engineers.Key Responsibilities

  • Build and ship AI features from concept through to production
  • Design and improve agent workflows, prompts, memory and tool use
  • Build reliable AI systems that solve real user problems
  • Improve latency, reliability and overall production performance
  • Develop evaluation frameworks to measure real-world model quality
  • Work closely with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous problems into working software
  • Help shape technical direction as the product evolves

Key Requirements

  • Commercial experience building production AI/ML applications
  • Strong Python engineering skills
  • Experience with modern LLMs and agentic AI systems
  • Hands-on experience with RAG, vector databases and LLM orchestration
  • Experience deploying and operating production ML systems
  • Comfortable working across models, infrastructure and product
  • Enjoy working in fast-moving, early-stage environments

Tech Stack Python * PyTorch * JAX * LLMs * vLLM * Vector Databases * Modern Agent FrameworksGet in touch for more details -

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Skills

LLM
PyTorch
Python

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