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5V Tech · 4 days ago

Lead Edge AI Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $300K/yr

5V Tech is a venture-backed technology company focused on building foundational infrastructure for an edge-first AI world. They are seeking a Lead Edge AI Engineer to own the edge-AI engineering roadmap and design systems that enable on-device inference, local training, and collaborative learning across devices.

Staffing & Recruiting

Hiring Manager

Luke PERRINS

Responsibilities

Architect and prototype edge-AI pipelines for training, inference, and cross-device collaboration

Build developer-facing APIs and SDKs that hide distributed complexity behind elegant abstractions

Optimize performance across constrained and diverse hardware (GPUs, NPUs, embedded accelerators)

Integrate AI workloads with privacy-preserving and verifiable computation frameworks

Partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams to shape the edge-AI developer experience

Mentor engineers and help define a culture focused on precision, performance, and trust

Qualification

AI/ML systems deploymentRustGoC++PythonDistributed systemsEdge compute constraintsPrivacy-preserving AIFirst-principles thinkingMentoring engineersStartup environment experience

Required

Deep experience deploying AI/ML systems in real-world edge environments

Strong proficiency in Rust, Go, C++, or Python

Solid understanding of distributed systems, federated learning, or privacy-preserving AI

Experience working with edge compute constraints and hardware runtimes

Background in a startup or scale-up environment

Proven track record delivering complex systems end-to-end

Strong curiosity around verifiable computing, zero-trust architectures, and data-centric AI

First-principles thinker who wants to build infrastructure that lasts decades

Benefits

Equity

Reward scheme if you can recommend someone for this position, up to $250 for you and an additional $250 to a charity of your choice

Company

5V Tech

5V Tech is a world-leading talent consultancy specialising in scaling tech teams who are working towards solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.

Founded in 2022

Bristol, England, GB

11-50 employees

https://www.weare5vtech.com

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

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