Founding Engineer – AI Infrastructure

Company: LinuxRecruit
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

You will own and build the AI training infrastructure at a pioneering robotics AI startup. You’ll design and scale platforms that enable researchers to translate ideas into production-ready systems. The role sits at the intersection of machine learning, distributed systems, cloud computing, and robotics, with the goal of accelerating breakthroughs in real-world robotics. You’ll join a founding, highly collaborative team and influence the technical direction from an early stage.

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale systems for large-scale model training
  • Improve efficiency of distributed workloads
  • Develop tooling to enable researchers to experiment rapidly and deploy ideas
  • Build a platform that may be novel in the field
  • Own infrastructure powering AI training and production readiness
  • Work across research and engineering to solve complex problems and shape technical direction

Key requirements

  • Experience building high-performance infrastructure for machine learning or compute-intensive workloads
  • Experience with distributed training, GPU orchestration, cloud infrastructure
  • Knowledge of modern deep learning frameworks and production software engineering
  • Background in AI infrastructure, platform engineering, or related fields (valued)
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems over focusing on titles
  • Curiosity
  • Strong technical depth
  • Motivation to tackle difficult problems
  • Distributed training
  • GPU orchestration
  • Cloud infrastructure

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Posted: October 1st, 2026