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Stott and May · 5 days ago

Founding AI Engineer

positionNew York, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level

Stott and May is partnering with an early-stage, mission-driven AI startup focused on building AI tools for nuclear energy deployment. As a Founding AI Engineer, you will take ownership of LLM systems, collaborating with researchers and engineers to design reliable models and influence the technical direction of AI infrastructure.

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Responsibilities

Build and deploy production-grade LLM agents powering the company’s core product
Design evaluation frameworks and benchmarking pipelines to ensure trustworthy and consistent model behavior
Develop synthetic data generation and fine-tuning pipelines optimized for regulated, safety-critical domains
Collaborate cross-functionally to bring research into production and support future model extensions (vision, physics, robotics)
Set the technical direction for AI infrastructure and mentor early hires as the team scales

Qualification

LLM systems deploymentHugging FaceModel evaluationLangChainVector databasesSynthetic data generationStartup-ready mindsetOpen-source contributionsPublished research

Required

Proven experience building and deploying LLM systems in production (fine-tuning, RAG, evals)
Deep familiarity with Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases, and LLM Ops best practices
Strong understanding of model evaluation, data quality, and prompt/agent design
Hands-on, startup-ready mindset - you enjoy owning outcomes end to end

Preferred

Bonus: open-source contributions, published research, or experience at the cutting edge of applied ML

Benefits

Equity
Comprehensive benefits

Company

Stott and May

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Stott and May provides intelligent executive recruitment for organisations across the UK, Europe and North America.
dateFounded in 2009
location
London, England, GBR
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
http://stottandmay.com

H1B Sponsorship

Stott and May has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Stephen Stott
CEO
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Andrew Gee
Chief Revenue Officer
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