Founding Engineer | AI Manufacturing Start Up

Founding Engineer — AI Manufacturing / Defence - Hiring for Software & AI Engineers

West London (5 days onsite)

Visa Sponsorship Available

Exceptional Salary + Meaningful Equity

We’re working with one of Europe’s fastest-growing defence technology companies.

They’ve raised $50m, are scaling globally, and are building AI-powered manufacturing systems designed to reshape how critical hardware gets built, deployed and sustained.

This is not a “join a big team and own a small corner” role.

They want exceptional engineers who want to help build the company itself.

What they’re looking for

People who are genuinely all in on startups.

Engineers who want intensity, ownership, speed and the chance to build something category-defining alongside a small group of very smart people.

The company hires for raw talent and ambition over specific tooling. They care far more about how quickly you learn, how deeply you think, and how hard you push than whether you’ve spent 5 years in one stack.

If you’re exceptional, they’ll shape the role around you.

You could be a fit if you:

• Have a track record of building difficult things fast
• Thrive in high-autonomy environments
• Want to work directly with founders and elite engineers
• Care about mission and impact over comfort
• Are excited by hard technical problems with real-world consequences
• Want significant equity and the opportunity to help build a generational company

Technical Backgrounds They Like

They’re open across disciplines, including:

• Backend / distributed systems
• AI / ML infrastructure
• Robotics
• Simulation
• Embedded systems
• Manufacturing software
• Infrastructure / platform engineering
• Applied AI
• Frontend/product engineering
• Systems programming

Language doesn’t matter.

Strong engineers do.

Why Join

• $50m funding already secured
• Extremely ambitious growth plans globally
• Small, high-talent-density team
• Significant ownership from day one
• Very strong compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Visa sponsorship available
• Opportunity to become a foundational part of the company’s future leadership and technical direction

Location

5 days onsite in West London.

This environment is highly collaborative, fast-moving and built around people who want to be in the room together solving hard problems.

The Opportunity

This is the kind of role people look back on in 10 years and wish they’d taken earlier.

If you want comfort, process and predictability, this probably isn’t for you.

If you want to help build a world-class company from near the beginning — and are prepared to operate at that level — let’s talk.