Founding AI Engineer
Grand
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dublin • Ireland
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About the role
- Design and build the runtime and orchestration layer for AI systems across the platform
- Turn probabilistic AI outputs into controlled, repeatable system behaviour
- Define how AI decisions are triggered, gated, validated, and executed
- Build guardrails, fallbacks, and confidence thresholds into AI flows
- Design human-in-the-loop and escalation paths where required
- Own prompt lifecycle management, evaluation, and versioning
- Manage context assembly, scoping, and data boundaries for AI tasks
- Build systems for logging, tracing, replay, and auditability
- Control latency, cost, reliability, and degradation in production
- Partner closely with AI data scientists to productionise models and signals
- Collaborate with product engineers to integrate AI safely into workflows
- Ensure AI systems are defensible, inspectable, and regulator-ready
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals
- Proven experience shipping AI or LLM-based systems into production
- Experience designing distributed systems with state, retries, and failure handling
- Comfort working with probabilistic systems in high-consequence environments
- Experience building guardrails, validation layers, or control flows around AI
- Strong understanding of observability, logging, and system diagnostics
- Experience managing model or prompt lifecycles in real systems
- Ability to reason clearly about failure modes and degradation
- Clear communicator who can explain complex system behaviour plainly
- High technical judgment and strong ownership instincts
Benefits
- Excellent Salary: Competitive and reflective of the responsibilities of a founding role
- Equity Options: Meaningful ownership in a long-term company
- Hybrid Work: At least 3 days in our London or Dublin office
- Extended Remote Work on Request: Outcomes matter more than optics
- Builders, Not Tourists: Work with people who care deeply about getting this right
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend engineeringAI systemsLLM-based systemsdistributed systemsprobabilistic systemsguardrailsvalidation layersobservabilityloggingsystem diagnostics
Soft Skills
clear communicatortechnical judgmentownership instincts