Founding Infrastructure Engineer
At Solve Intelligence, we're building the AI-powered infrastructure for the global Intellectual Property landscape. We need a brilliant Infrastructure Engineer to build the secure, scalable engine that makes it all possible.
The Role: Founding Infrastructure Engineer
You'll be joining the leanest, most talent-dense engineering team in London. You aren't just managing servers; you are designing the multi-region, high-throughput systems that handle complex AI workloads.
What you'll own:
- Cloud Architecture: Design and maintain our AWS environment using Terraform, optimizing for reliability, cost-efficiency, and massive scale.
- Global Footprint: Build infrastructure patterns for multi-region deployment and fully isolated single-tenant environments for enterprise customers.
- Developer Velocity: Architect CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Docker) that allow our team to ship safely and quickly.
- Observability & Reliability: Instrument the stack with OpenTelemetry and Datadog to ensure we detect issues before our users do.
- AI Performance Tuning: Tune autoscaling and network routing to handle resource-intensive LLM workloads with ultra-low latency.
About Solve Intelligence
We're the fastest-growing startup transforming the IP industry.
- Traction: 20-30% MoM revenue growth; selling to 200+ global IP teams (DLA Piper, tech boutiques, and global enterprises).
- Proven Value: Users report 50-90% efficiency gains using our AI platform.
- Backing: Recently featured in Sifted following our $40M Series B announcement, bringing our total funding to $55M from elite investors including Insight Partners, Y Combinator, and HOF Capital.
Your Team
You'll partner with a founding team of AI PhDs and elite systems engineers:
- Sanj (CRO): PhD in AI (Gatsby Unit, UCL), ex-Huawei R&D, former lead at Magic Carpet AI (acquired).
- Chris (CEO): PhD in AI (UCL), published researcher, ex-Dyson and Alan Turing Institute.
- Angus (CTO): MEng Computer Science, ex-Qualcomm and Coremont (Brevan Howard).
Who You Are
We are a high-performance culture of \"hackers\" and builders.
- Speed & Safety: You believe that great infrastructure is what allows application engineers to move faster.
- Extreme Ownership: You strive for excellence in every configuration and take pride in \"five nines\" reliability.
- Driven & Humble: You are willing to go the extra mile (including the occasional late night or weekend) to ensure our systems are bulletproof.
What You Bring
Must-Haves:
- 5+ Years Experience: Owning and scaling cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- IaC Expert: Professional mastery of Terraform or similar.
- CI/CD Veteran: Proven track record of building deployment pipelines that don't break.
- Security First: Deep understanding of IAM, cloud networking, and security best practices.
Preferred & Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience with ECS, container orchestration, and distributed task queues (Celery/SQS).
- Strong Python skills.
- Familiarity with the Datadog/Grafana observability stack.
- A background in offensive security, CTFs, or AI/ML infrastructure.
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary + Significant Equity: We want you to have true ownership in the success of the company.
- Founding Impact: You will have a direct hand in every architectural decision we make.
- Support: Full visa sponsorship and private medical insurance.
- The Environment: Free meals and a seat at the table with an incredibly smart, ambitious team.
Ready to build the backbone of the future of AI? Apply now.