Founding AI product engineer & integration engineer

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Summary

## Build the Operating System for the Next Generation of Businesses We are building an **AI-native operating system that enables entrepreneurs, startups, and organisations to build, launch, and scale businesses with AI-powered teams and infrastructure.** The vision is ambitious: instead of companies hiring dozens of people and stitching together hundreds of disconnected tools, we are creating a platform where businesses can deploy **AI employees, business intelligence, and operational infrastructure from one unified system.** We are looking for a **Founding Engineer / AI Platform Architect** to help design and build the core platform from the ground up. --- # The Mission Create the infrastructure layer for the future of work. Our platform combines: ### 1. AI Business Intelligence Layer Helping founders and organisations: * Create business plans and founder decks * Perform market and competitor analysis * Build financial models * Generate strategic recommendations * Understand opportunities and risks * Turn ideas into actionable business strategies ### 2. AI Workforce Layer Deploying AI employees that can: * Execute business workflows * Handle operational tasks * Communicate with customers * Perform research and analysis * Support sales, marketing, finance, and administration * Work alongside human teams The goal is not another AI chatbot. The goal is an **AI workforce infrastructure platform.** --- # Role As Founding Engineer, you will own the technical foundation of the company. You will work directly with the founder to: * Design the AI agent architecture * Build the multi-agent orchestration system * Create the platform architecture * Develop integrations with business infrastructure providers * Build scalable SaaS foundations * Define engineering standards and technical direction This is a founding role with significant ownership and the opportunity to shape the entire product. --- # Responsibilities ## AI Systems * Design and build autonomous AI agents * Develop agent workflows and orchestration systems * Implement tool-use and function-calling architectures * Build memory, knowledge, and context systems * Create evaluation frameworks for AI performance ## Platform Engineering * Design a multi-tenant SaaS architecture * Build backend services and APIs * Develop user, organisation, and business profiles * Create workflow execution infrastructure * Build integrations with external platforms ## Business Infrastructure Layer The platform will connect to capabilities such as: * CRM systems * Voice AI * Communication platforms * Payments * Automation tools * Business software These capabilities will be abstracted into our own platform experience. Users should not manage individual tools — they should manage outcomes. --- # Ideal Candidate You are someone who wants to build something category-defining. You have experience with: ### Backend Engineering * Node.js / TypeScript or Python * API architecture * Distributed systems * Microservices * Database design ### AI Engineering * LLM applications * Agent frameworks * RAG systems * Vector databases * AI workflow orchestration ### SaaS Engineering * Multi-tenant platforms * Authentication and permissions * Cloud infrastructure * Scalable product architecture --- # Preferred Technical Experience Experience with: * OpenAI APIs and modern LLM systems * LangChain / LlamaIndex or similar frameworks * MCP (Model Context Protocol) * Workflow engines * Kubernetes / Docker * PostgreSQL * Redis * Cloud infrastructure --- # What You Will Build You will help create: * An AI business operating system * A marketplace of AI employees * Autonomous business workflows * AI-powered executive intelligence * The infrastructure layer for companies of the future --- # Who We Are Looking For Not someone looking for a normal engineering job. We are looking for a builder who: * Thinks in systems * Moves fast * Loves solving ambiguous problems * Wants ownership, not just tasks * Believes AI will fundamentally change how companies operate You will be one of the first people shaping the company. --- # Why Join This is an opportunity to build at the intersection of: * Artificial intelligence * Entrepreneurship * SaaS infrastructure * The future of work The ambition is to create the platform that allows one person — or a small team — to operate like a much larger organisation through AI. If you want to build the next generation of business infrastructure, we want to hear from you.

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  • Intermediate
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  • Remote Job
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Web Application
AI Agent Development
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About the client
Member since May 10, 2024
  • United Kingdom
    Glasgow1:49 PM
  • $1.8K total spent
    11 hires, 3 active
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