Product Engineer in Slough

About Native

Native is a VC backed AI startup building the world's most accurate AI for databases reasoning. This is hard.

This is an unsolved problem that once solved will change how every enterprise operates.

We recently published our results, achieving rank 1 on the industry standard benchmark.

Our research team is based in London.

Everyone has high agency, obsessed with the problem we are solving, embraces the intensity of a 6-day week and has the ambition to build something world changing.

We are a exceptional engineers and scientists taking a novel approach to accurate database reasoning.

About the role

This is a founding product engineering role at the intersection of research, backend systems, and user experience.

You will:

• Build end-to-end product features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
• Turn research capabilities into usable, reliable, and scalable products
• Work deeply with databases, APIs, and AI systems
• Design systems where correctness, trust, and transparency matter
• Own features from concept to production to iteration
• Think deeply about edge cases, failure modes, and product boundaries
• Help define what "AI-native products" should look like from first principles

Required experience

• Strong experience shipping full-stack or product-focused systems in production
• Comfortable across frontend, backend, and data layers
• Experience working with APIs, databases, and complex data flows
• Ability to turn ambiguous ideas into real, shipped software
• Strong engineering judgment and product intuition
• High ownership mindset. You build it, you run it, you improve it

Why join us

• Impact: Shape the first products built on top of a new class of foundation model
• Team: A small, intense, world-class research and engineering group in London
• Founding-level equity + competitive salary: Real ownership, real upside
• Direction: Define both product and engineering foundations from day one

Culture

• At Native, we look for people with exceptional research and engineering ability, who want to win.
• Everyone loves building and is ambitious enough to want to change how the world operates for the better.
• We run towards hard problems.
• We are creative problem solvers, who keep going until we find the underlying principle of the problem, and build to solve that.
• If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, are intrinsically motivated and want to have a huge impact, we are a great fit.