London (4 days in office expected) Full-time
About us
Telluvian is a London-based, VC-backed pre-seed startup. We use mechanistic interpretability, our understanding of what's happening inside neural networks, to make AI cheaper and more secure. Learn more at telluvian.ai.
The role
We're looking for a graduate backend engineer to build and run the infrastructure our research and product depend on. This is primarily an engineering role rather than a research one but you'll be working next to interpretability researchers, and you'll need to understand what they're doing well enough to know how it should shape the systems you build.
You'll join a team of fewer than ten people, and you'll own real infrastructure early. If you like large, messy, half-defined problems and get satisfaction from making things work, this will suit you.
This is a full time position with flexible working hours. 4 days a week in the London office is expected.
Start date is rolling.
What you'll do
- Cloud infrastructure and resource management. Configuring compute, minimising costs, keeping things up.
- Inference management for our ML systems. Getting models served reliably and efficiently. This is the hardest part of the role and the part we expect you to learn on the job.
- Hosting and maintaining our website. Occasional minor changes; this is not a frontend role.
- General backend product engineering across the stack as we grow.
What we're looking for
- A computer science or related STEM degree, ideally with at least one relevant internship or prior work experience.
- Strong general software engineering skills. This means you can reason through a system design question and explain and/or justify your choices.
- A track record of shipping: work you've built, deployed, and kept running, whether professionally, at university, or on your own time.
- Working familiarity with ML concepts. We aren’t looking for you to do novel research, but you should understand roughly what a model is doing and why it matters for the system around it.
- Self-motivated. You'll often be working independently and you’ll need to work effectively in a self-directed way.
Nice to have
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- DevOps: CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code
- Python, particularly with NumPy, PyTorch, or Transformers
- Any exposure to serving or scaling ML models
What we offer
- Ownership of key infrastructure from day one.
- Meaningful equity in the company.
- Close proximity to frontier interpretability research, and the chance to grow into it if you want to.
- 28 days paid annual leave.
- Workplace pension with employer contributions.
We unfortunately don’t have the capacity to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
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Engineering Software Engineer London (expect 5 days in office) employer: Telluvian
At Telluvian, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer by fostering a dynamic and innovative work culture in the heart of London. As a pre-seed startup, we offer interns the unique opportunity to engage directly with cutting-edge research in AI interpretability while enjoying flexible working hours and genuine autonomy. Our small team ensures that you receive direct mentorship from experienced professionals, paving the way for meaningful growth and potential future opportunities within the company.
