Hiring: Founding AI Research Engineer (up to £140k) Company: Dex Location: London, England, United Kingdom Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 04:42:51 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, NLP, Python, SQL About the job Experience: •5+ years solving research-level problems in NLP, LLMs, or adjacent ML, in academia or industry. Required Skills: •Design and implement novel retrieval and knowledge-base systems for a persistent, living model of user context. •Develop and deploy reasoning models that operate across diverse, messy data sources. •Build models capable of real-time reasoning over live screen and application context. •Take research from initial hypothesis and experimentation through to robust, production-ready systems, owning the entire lifecycle. Qualifications: •A PhD or personally owned a hard, end-to-end technical project at a company. •You implement and build upon current research papers, not just apply existing libraries. •You've run both halves of the work: forming and testing hypotheses, and building robust, scalable systems. •Strong Python, comfortable with cloud infrastructure, and both SQL and NoSQL databases. •Work in person in Elephant and Castle five days a week. •Founding AI research roles like this are rare and often oversubscribed. Sign up to Dex once to get matched to this role and others like it, skipping the cold-apply process. We'll brief you properly before any interview, helping you cut through the noise and focus on roles that genuinely fit. •If you're interested, sign up to Dex to apply - https://jobs.meetdex.ai/jobs/2e31a8c1-9fbf-47c3-878a-42e19e99f009 •As part of the recruitment process at Dex, we process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants. This notice explains how and why your data is collected and used, and how you can contact us if you have any concerns. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!