Founding Engineer | Early-Stage Start-Up | Physical AI | London

Founding Engineer | Early-Stage Start-Up | Physical AI | London

Founding Engineer required to join an early-stage AI start-up using AI to solve complex problems in the physical world.

This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor, working closely with the founders to build the core technology and help shape the product from day one. You’ll tackle challenging engineering problems at the intersection of software, AI, and the physical world, with significant ownership over what gets built and how.

You are:

5+ years of professional Software Engineering experience

A strong backend engineer with excellent software engineering fundamentals

Language agnostic and comfortable working across modern technologies

Experienced building scalable, production-grade systems

Experienced building with AI, or deeply passionate about the potential of AI

Excited by high-ownership, fast-moving start-up environments

Bonus points:

Previous early-stage start-up or founding engineering experience

Experience using AI to solve real-world / physical-world problems

Why join:

Become a Founding Engineer with significant ownership from day one

Build AI technology tackling problems beyond purely digital workflows

Work directly with the founders and influence product and technical direction

Solve genuinely difficult software and AI engineering challenges

Join a small, high-calibre team with meaningful equity and minimal bureaucracy

If you’re a strong Software Engineer who wants to build ambitious AI technology with tangible real-world impact, I’d love to hear from you.

Founding Engineer | Early-Stage Start-Up | Physical AI | London