AI Engineer

AI Engineer (AI-Native Startups | up to £200k+ TC) · London & remote (Europe)

Title: AI Engineer

Location: London & remote (Europe)

Salary: Total compensation up to £200,000+ plus equity

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Every company says it's an AI company now. A much smaller set are building products where the AI is the product — agents and LLM systems running inside live enterprise workflows, where "it worked in the demo" doesn't count. We know these teams well, because we work with them directly, and we can steer you past the hype toward the ones doing the serious version of this work.

The opportunities

Compensation at these companies can reach £200k+ plus equity. The craft here lives in the gap between a slick prototype and a system that holds up in front of real enterprise users — closing that gap is the whole job. You'd own features outright, from the agents and RAG pipelines to the evals that keep them honest, at companies early enough to hand you the reins and funded well enough to ship properly.

You could work on

• Building and shipping production AI systems — agents, RAG pipelines, evals
• Taking features from prototype to reliably in production
• Prompting, tooling, orchestration and guardrails, close to the model
• Turning foundation models into workflows customers actually use

You may have

• Production experience with LLMs and agents, beyond prototypes
• Solid engineering fundamentals in Python and/or TypeScript
• A feel for what makes AI systems dependable in the real world
• Pace — you'd rather ship and iterate than polish in private

Why apply through Dex? We put you in front of the right teams with a proper introduction, not a cold application — and you stay in control of what moves forward.

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