Software Engineer in AI

🧠 Software Engineer in AI

📍 Hybrid (UK/Ireland Based) | 💰 Up to £49k | 🧑‍💻 Early-Stage Startup | 📄 6-Month FTC (Potential to Go Perm)

This is one of those rare early-stage roles that puts you on the ground floor of something genuinely meaningful - and you'll see the direct impact of your work from day one.

We're hiring on behalf of a trailblazing accessibility startup (confidential for now) that's building AI-powered tools to deliver sign language translation at scale - an industry first. Backed by a sharp founding team and working with cutting-edge tech (think AR, LLMs, GANs, etc.), they're solving a problem that genuinely matters.

The Role:
You'll be among the first engineers joining this 0-to-1 journey, shaping a fresh codebase and making key architectural decisions. Think ML pipelines, real-time video and language processing, microservices - it's all in play.

🛠 You'll:

• Design and build ML models from scratch using Python + TensorFlow/PyTorch
• Ship features across both frontend and backend (FastAPI for now)
• Work on NLP, CV, generative AI (GANs/LLMs), and time-series models
• Own end-to-end ML capabilities: from idea to deployment
• Learn fast and contribute fast - no "wait and see" here

You might be a good fit if:

• You're on track to graduate top of your class this summer OR already have 1-2 years' real-world ML/AI experience
• You're comfortable building things from scratch and love solving novel problems
• You're not afraid to get your hands dirty in the early-stage chaos
• You genuinely care about building tech that drives social good

Bonus points for experience with:

• Azure / cloud-native architectures
• MLOps/CI-CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
• AR/VR or creative use of AI for accessibility

The Offer:

• Up to £49k
• 6-month fixed term contract (potential to go perm)
• Equity options available
• Flexible hybrid model - just ~4 days/month of in-person time
• Join a mission-first team, in an environment that's creative, inclusive and relentlessly curious

This is an amazing chance to shape not just a product, but a movement. If you're someone who's been waiting to build something that matters - hit apply

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