Principal AI Engineer in UNITED KINGDOM

About Moonsong Labs

Moonsong Labs is a cutting-edge Web3 and AI venture studio and services company focused on driving projects and ideas in the next wave of developer and end user adoption. We're assembling a dream team of brilliant minds who are as excited as we are about building the future of the internet. Together, we'll disrupt traditional industries, empower individuals, and create a more equitable and transparent digital landscape. Examples of Moonsong Labs projects include Kluster.ai (Decentralised compute platform optimised for Machine learning use cases), Moonbeam (EVM compatible L1 optimized for cross chain use cases) and Tanssi (AppChain Infrastructure).

The Venture Studio team

We believe we are at a significant inflection point in technology where AI and web3 are both set to disrupt the way we work and interact with one another and we want to position ourselves right at the intersection of these two technologies.

Our Venture Studio team is focused on investigating, researching, designing, and building new solutions to help drive web3 and Machine learning user adoption and improve scalability, usability, and user experiences with the ultimate aim of launching each product as a stand alone company to add to our growing network of Moonsong Labs portfolio companies.

Your Role

We have a newly created role for a Developer Relations Lead to join the Moonsong Labs Venture Studio team to serve as the bridge between our Venture Studio research and development team and a highly technical customer base. The Developer Relations Lead is a hands-on role within the Venture Studio responsible for understanding developer needs, use cases, and scenarios and bringing that customer driven knowledge back to the Venture Studio R&D team. At the same time, they will be responsible for distilling, explaining, and demonstrating key ideas from new Venture Studio projects to an audience of developers. And showing how new ideas from the Venture Studio could be used as solutions to uncovered needs and challenges. Ultimately, the Developer Relations Lead should enable more frequent and earlier developer interaction that will help improve product development, features, and roadmaps. The purpose of this role is to engage with developers to inform and get feedback on Venture Studio projects in the development process, to ensure a good product market fit.

The ideal candidate has experience as a hands on software engineer with Web3 and AI domain knowledge, experience as a developer relations engineer for a Web3 or AI infrastructure project, experience as a solutions architect that can probe and ask the right questions, or experience defining technical strategies. A hands on coding and technical background is key for this role, but the role also has a significant outward facing and communication component engaging with developers, and defining technical solutions. The ability to explain complex technical concepts in an easy to understand way is a core requirement for the position through creating content, live demonstrations and presentations, and being the voice of the customer to our core Web3 and AI engineering teams.

You will have the opportunity to shape and develop the developer relations function of a leading company in Web3 and AI space. We foster a culture of autonomy and taking action so we expect you to bring your ideas, experience, and knowledge to help us create lasting solutions. This role offers the unique opportunity to join a company that is strategically positioned at the leading edge of the two most important technology trends in the market today. Reach out to us if you are interested in helping to drive a future, where blockchains and AI enable new, software native, and decentralized ways of coordinating and automating economic activity.

What you'll do:

• Hands on in architecting and designing early prototypes for technical validation.
• Turn prototypes into production grade architectures for internal development once projects move forward.
• Assist in recruiting a technical founding team for projects graduating to exit the studio.
• Demonstrate creativity in ideating and developing out-of-the-box solutions.
• Exhibit a hands-on approach to prototyping, and brainstorming business ideas and technical architectures to deliver them.
• Stay on top of the latest relevant (EVM ecosystem, Cryptography, ML Models) research and competitive efforts to identify synergistic ideas and approaches for Venture Studio projects.
• Keep an oversight over MSL core engineering services and projects for synergistic and project opportunities.

What you'll bring:

• Experience with Machine learning and software development.
• Experience with Python and/or Rust, Solidity.
• Hands on experience with LLM, tuning or using agentic workflow frameworks
• Ability to present to senior customer audiences, to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Experience working with customers to understand requirements and turn them into designs and implementations. This includes digging for opportunities based on information provided.
• Ability to create technical proposals and document designs.
• Ability to research new protocols and tech stacks to quickly understand mechanisms and key design elements / tradeoffs.
• Knowledge of web3 infrastructure protocols, architectures, and the current web3 landscape is a plus but not required.

Perks and Benefits:

• 100% Remote
• Flexible vacation policy
• Health and Dental plans (for US based employees)
• Direct line of access to Managing Partners and senior leadership; A flat organizational structure and the camaraderie of working alongside committed professionals focused on providing dedicated mentorship, respectful feedback, and career advancement
• Continuous learning & development

Ready to Shape the Future? Join Us Today!

Equal Opportunity is the law, and at Moonsong Labs, we are ardently committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let us know.