Senior Applied AI Research Engineer (Member of Technical Staff) | London

develop • United Kingdom

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AI Summary

Join a London-based AI infrastructure company to research, optimize, and ship production-grade AI systems. Focus on agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, and inference optimization while translating research into scalable product capabilities. Requires deep technical expertise in AI systems, rigorous experimentation, and hands-on engineering skills.

Key Highlights

Research-led role optimizing agentic systems, retrieval pipelines, and inference workflows for cost, speed, and quality

Build and ship production-grade AI systems with a focus on experimental rigor and benchmarking

Collaborate with platform teams to translate research into general product capabilities

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Key Responsibilities

Reverse-engineer agentic systems to identify and eliminate compute waste in production environments

Design and implement robust routing systems to optimize request paths for cost and speed without sacrificing quality

Develop layered proxy evaluations to ensure no quality regression in optimized workflows

Extend automatic optimization techniques to new AI techniques and guide future research directions

Create shared evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, and experiment tooling for scalable research

Translate research findings into general product capabilities in collaboration with platform teams

Technical Skills Required

Machine Learning AI Systems & Inference Optimization Experimental Design & Benchmarking

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Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary + equity

Private healthcare

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Nice to Have

Early or founding experience at an AI-first or deep-tech company

Multi-agent system design expertise with depth in lower-stack components (kernels, serving engines, latency-critical systems)

Research in inference optimization, routing, distillation, evaluation, or model internals

Publications, open-source contributions, or public write-ups on AI topics

Familiarity with novel accelerator platforms

Job Description

Applied AI Research Engineering, Member of Technical Staff | London | Competitive salary + equity

develop is partnering with a well-funded, London-based AI infrastructure company that has just closed a major funding round led by a top-tier European VC. They are building the software layer that orchestrates models, workflows and specialised silicon into a single system, delivering inference that is dramatically cheaper and faster without any loss in quality.

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