Overview
Imagine saying to your friends/family you’re the founding Engineer #1 for an AI tech unicorn. This is a truly rare, unique opportunity to become the first engineering hire at a company with the ambition and backing to become a future tech unicorn.
The company was founded recently by two experienced founders who have built, scaled, and sold businesses. They have raised over £10 m in pre‑seed funding from top‑tier VC firms and have a clear, aggressive plan to deploy capital to accelerate growth quickly. You’ll be joining at the very start, but with serious momentum behind it.
They tackle a huge, real‑world problem in a £100 bn+ market. Every hospital, school, pub, etc. must meet strict safety and compliance requirements, yet the industry is still largely run on manual, outdated processes: spreadsheets, PDFs, and weeks or months spent writing reports and documentation. It’s inefficient, frustrating, and ripe for change.
That’s exactly what this company has cracked. They’re building a fully AI‑native platform that automates the admin and paperwork that specialist engineers hate doing, so those engineers can focus on solving real problems. The result is massive gains in productivity, better margins, and software that operators genuinely want to use.
What makes this especially compelling is the growth strategy. They acquire profitable real‑world service businesses and bring them straight onto their AI platform. That means immediate users, software‑like margins, real operational data, and fast feedback to see the impact of your work almost immediately.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the core platform
- Automate messy real‑world workflows
- Shape how AI is used inside operational businesses
- Build and lead your own engineering team
- Drive product strategy and influence business decisions
Qualifications & Expectations
- Passion for building from scratch and driving product from concept to launch
- Strong autonomy and influence, comfortable with long nights and hard problems
- Experience applying AI to physical‑world processes, not just dashboards
- Ambition to grow into a CTO role before Series A
Benefits & Remuneration
- Equity package that could be life‑changing, far above the standard <1 % offered at other AI startups
- Predicted worst‑case payout on the roadmap could exceed £2 m
- Fully remote, fully distributed team across Europe
Location
Fully remote across Europe. This role is a serious 0→1 build with a brand‑new team.
Contact
If you enjoy building from scratch, want autonomy and influence, and like the idea of applying AI to the physical world, not just dashboards, this is a rare chance to help define a company at the very beginning. To learn more, email ethan.farrell@linuxrecruit.co.uk.
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