Senior AI Engineer (Conversational AI & RecTech)

wave group • United Kingdom

Remote

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AI Summary

Join a founder-led AI startup building live conversational AI products for recruitment. As an AI Engineer, you’ll design, build, and optimize LLM-powered agents—from engagement tools to recruiter copilots—with full ownership of end-to-end development, testing, and product decisions. Focus on agent quality, prompt engineering, and real-world impact with a hands-on, autonomous role.

Key Highlights

Build and improve live conversational AI agents for recruitment (candidate engagement, document collection, scheduling, and recruiter workflows)

Work directly with AI lead and full-stack engineers in a high-autonomy, product-driven environment with customer proximity

No model training required—focus on shipping LLM-powered products with third-party models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini)

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement conversational AI agents for candidate engagement, document collection, scheduling, and recruiter workflows

Develop and optimize LLM-powered copilots for recruiters, enabling plain-language search and tool integration

Build in-product agents guiding users through workflow setup with manual prompt engineering and quality evaluation

Collaborate with full-stack engineers on API integrations while focusing on agent logic, testing, and iterative improvement

Take full ownership of projects from ideation to production, including product decisions and customer-facing iterations

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Technical Skills Required

Python LLM-powered product development Agent and tool-calling systems

Benefits & Perks

Up to ~£90,000 annual salary (potential flexibility)

Early-stage equity

Fully remote work option

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Nice to Have

Experience with vector databases (Weaviate, Pinecone, pgvector)

Conversational AI experience (multi-turn context, dialogue design, real-time interaction)

Full-stack development (React/TypeScript) and comfort working outside AI layers

Familiarity with agent frameworks, FastAPI, and LLM observability tools

Job Description

💻 Job Title: AI Engineer

💰 Salary: up to ~£90k (potential flex) + early stage equity

📍 Location: could be fully remote (Central London office if preferred)

🗣️ Industry: Conversational AI / RecTech

🛂 VISA sponsorship is NOT available

A young, founder-led AI company is hiring an AI Engineer to join a small, high-calibre team building conversational AI for the recruitment industry. Not a research role. Not a pilot. Live AI products, used by real customers and you’ll be working on the part of the product where the AI logic actually lives.

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