Frontend Engineer
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 team of exceptional engineers and scientists taking a novel approach to accurate database reasoning.
About the role
This is a founding frontend role, with the opportunity to shape how users interact with a completely new class of AI system.
You will:
- Design and build core user interfaces for research tools, internal systems, and customer-facing products
- Turn complex AI and database concepts into clear, intuitive user experiences
- Work closely with research and backend teams to surface correctness, uncertainty, and system behaviour in the UI
- Build fast, reliable, and elegant frontend systems from first principles
- Own frontend architecture, performance, and developer experience
- Design for clarity, correctness, and usability in high-stakes workflows
- Help define the frontend foundations of the company from day one
Required experience
- Strong experience building production frontend applications (React, TypeScript, or equivalent)
- Experience designing complex interfaces for technical users
- Comfort working with APIs, data-heavy applications, and real-time systems
- Strong engineering taste: you care about clarity, correctness, and trade-offs
- Ability to work from ambiguous requirements and shape product direction
- High ownership mindset. You ship, you own, you improve
- Amazing at using AI coding tools
Why join us
This is a rare chance to join a founding team operating at the frontier of AI, with the resources to win.
- Impact: You will push the frontier of AI for an under-explored, massively valuable domain.
- Team: We are a small, collaborative, world-class research team based in central London.
- Founding level equity + competitive salary: We want you to share in the upside of what we are building. As part of the founding team, you will receive meaningful ownership alongside a salary that allows you to focus on building something great.
- Direction: Chance to shape the direction of a new class of foundation model 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.