Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer

Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer

Full-Time 76023 - 95029 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Design and own large-scale AI training infrastructure for cutting-edge robotics.
  • Company: Exciting AI and robotics startup backed by Imperial College London.
  • Benefits: Meaningful equity, autonomy, and the chance to shape the company's future.
  • Other info: Collaborate with leading researchers and work on transformative technology.
  • Why this job: Join a small, ambitious team solving challenging engineering problems in AI.
  • Qualifications: Experience in distributed training, cloud infrastructure, and modern deep-learning frameworks.

The predicted salary is between 76023 - 95029 £ per year.

Robotics is about to have its Chat GPT moment.

We’re building a new kind of AI system that allows robots to learn complex tasks from a single demonstration.

No months of training data collection.

No painstaking programming.

Show the robot once and it gets to work.

Born out of years of research at Imperial College London and backed by one of the largest robotics seed rounds in the UK, we’re assembling a small, world‑class team to tackle some of the hardest engineering problems in AI.

We’re looking for an exceptional engineer to own the infrastructure powering our model training.

This isn’t traditional Dev Ops.

It isn’t conventional MLOps.

It’s a rare opportunity to sit at the intersection of machine learning, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and robotics.

  • What you’ll do
  • Design and own our large‑scale AI training infrastructure.
  • Scale distributed model training across hundreds of GPUs and multiple cloud environments.
  • Optimise training throughput, GPU utilisation and infrastructure costs.
  • Build the systems that transform vast amounts of simulation data into production‑ready models.
  • Develop tooling and frameworks that accelerate research and experimentation.
  • Work directly with our founders and research team to solve bottlenecks at the frontier of robotics.
  • Shape the architecture, culture and technical direction of the company from day one.
  • What we’re looking for
  • Large‑scale distributed training.
  • Py Torch and modern deep‑learning frameworks.
  • Kubernetes, Slurm or GPU orchestration platforms.
  • AWS and specialist GPU cloud providers.
  • High‑performance computing and distributed systems.
  • Training optimisation, memory management and networking.
  • MLOps tooling, CI/CD and experimentation frameworks.
  • Python and production‑grade software engineering.
  • Computer vision, multimodal AI or transformer architectures.
  • Bonus points if you’ve worked on
  • Research infrastructure.
  • Simulation systems.
  • Robotics or embodied AI.

Who you are

  • You’re deeply technical and happiest when solving difficult engineering problems.
  • You thrive in small, ambitious teams.
  • You enjoy building from scratch rather than maintaining legacy systems.
  • You can move comfortably between research and production.
  • You care about performance, elegance and impact.
  • You want ownership, autonomy and the opportunity to shape something significant.
  • Join one of Europe’s most exciting AI and robotics startups.
  • Work alongside leading researchers from Imperial College London.
  • Meaningful equity and genuine founding‑team influence.
  • Solve problems that sit at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure.
  • Build technology with the potential to redefine how humans interact with machines.

We’re intentionally keeping the team small, talent‑dense and highly collaborative.

If you want to spend your days solving genuinely difficult problems with exceptional people, we’d love to hear from you.

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Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer employer: LinuxRecruit

At LinuxRecruit, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer by fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture in the heart of London. Our team-oriented environment encourages personal growth and development, allowing you to tackle real-world challenges while directly engaging with clients. With attractive compensation packages and a commitment to high trust and low ego, we offer a unique opportunity for meaningful and rewarding employment in the rapidly evolving field of AI systems.

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We think you need these skills to ace Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer

Large-scale distributed training
PyTorch
Deep-learning frameworks
Kubernetes
Slurm
GPU orchestration platforms
AWS