VP of Engineering

You will be the most senior engineer on the product and the person who decides how its year one you will write a large share of the code yourself. As the team grows you will take over technical leadership of the platform: architecture engineering standards and hiring. For the right person this is a clear path to CTO.

You will work directly with the founders and the model research team. You are the link between a frontier model and a product that safety-critical engineers rely on.

• Architecture: frontend backend data and infrastructure including build-vs-buy decisions.

• Product delivery: ship quickly with product and early users who are control and embedded engineers.

• Model integration layer: inference serving prompt and context management tool use streaming evaluation hooks and fallbacks. New model releases plug in without a rewrite.

• Trust workflows: traceability from requirements to code diffing and review test execution and audit trails so engineers can verify AI-generated code.

• Engineering foundations: CI/CD observability security access control and cost control for GPU-backed workloads.

• Enterprise readiness: SSO data isolation and on-prem or private-cloud deployment for regulated industries.

• Team: hire mentor and lead the first engineers and define how they work.

Must have

• 10 years building and shipping production software with real depth in both frontend and backend.

• Strong TypeScript and React (or an equivalent modern frontend) plus at least one backend language: Python Go or TypeScript/Node.

• Founding lead or principal engineer on a product taken from early stage to paying customers.

• LLM features shipped to production: model APIs or self-hosted inference streaming evaluation and cost/latency trade-offs.

• Cloud skills on AWS GCP or Azure plus containers and infrastructure as code.

• Sound architectural judgement: you know when to move fast and when a shortcut costs too much.

• Experience hiring and leading engineers or a clear appetite to do so.

• Clear written and spoken English and comfort working with founders researchers and customers.

Nice to have

• Compliance exposure: SOC 2 ISO 27001 or FedRAMP.

• Developer tools IDEs code editors (Monaco VS Code extensions) or code analysis tooling.

• Serving custom or fine-tuned models (vLLM TensorRT-LLM Triton) and GPU infrastructure.

• Rust or C/C.

• Selling to and deploying in regulated or security-conscious enterprises.

• CTO-level ownership of a product where frontier AI meets real-world engineering.

• A clear path to the CTO role as the company grows.

• Competitive salary and meaningful CTO-level equity.

• Direct work with a founding team that combines AI research with hands-on experience building high-voltage and electric drive systems.

• Hybrid working from the London office with a full benefits package.