founding engineer

Tracebit

<div>Our product helps security teams quickly and accurately detect intrusions in their cloud environment using canaries - decoy tripwires deployed to deceive attackers.
We're at a massive inflection point and this is a hugely exciting time to join the company:<ul><li>
We've just raised a $20m Series A led by FirstMark with Accel, MMC, Tapestry and CCL.</li><li>
We doubled ARR last quarter, work with companies like Riot Games, Docker and Snyk, and have grown from 5 people to 26 in 18 months.</li><li>
Our research recently helped fix a P1 security flaw in Google's Gemini CLI.</li></ul>
We&rsquo;re looking for someone who&hellip;<ul><li>
Is genuinely interested in technology and cyber security, and keen to build a career in it.</li><li>
Has a strong academic foundation - an undergraduate or/and master's degree, ideally in a STEM subject like computer science, engineering, maths, physics&hellip; and has demonstrated real academic excellence.</li><li>
Has strong engineering fundamentals and a real appetite to learn - can write clean, correct code in a known language, and is genuinely curious about how things work under the hood.</li><li>
Has built things they're proud of - side projects, open source, hackathons&hellip; And is excited by the pace and rate of change that is inevitable in any successful, early stage startup.</li><li>
Gets their energy from getting things done and in the hands of customers but is also here to have fun along the way!</li></ul>
If you don&rsquo;t fit this bill exactly but think you could make a difference here - please, apply!
Role
Reporting to Niall, our Engineering Lead, and with significant exposure to our CTO and Co-Founder, Sam, you&rsquo;ll join a team of other awesome engineers looking to make their mark on the world.
This includes:<ul><li>
Working face to face with both founders, the whole engineering team and our customers and prospects to build a delightful product that solves real problems.</li><li>
Working across the stack, mostly in C# on .NET Core 10 (here's why), but also Terraform and building out our frontend in HTMX.</li><li>
All the good practices you&rsquo;d expect from technical co-founders who&rsquo;ve done this before (CD, Infrastructure as code, simple but scalable and powerful architecture)</li><li>
We&rsquo;re a small, tight team with demanding customers so expect to be shipping every day with very little bureaucracy.</li><li>
We actively encourage AI-assisted development and give every engineer full access to tools like Claude and Codex.</li><li>
We&rsquo;re based in a Central London office and work here 5 days a week (and everyone we hire will too).</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
FAQs</h2>
How is work organised at Tracebit?
It&rsquo;s a small, tight team - we have a standup everyday, each team member is usually responsible for delivering something reasonably large for customers and we meet every few weeks to talk about longer term plans. Between that - there&rsquo;s a tonne of discussions, customer feedback and analysis, but not a huge amount of process, the team is trusted to prioritise where to spend their time.
Where is the office?
The whole team works together in an office right next to Warren Street tube station - there are lots of great places to grab lunch nearby.
Are you doing hybrid/remote?
&zwj;Short answer: No, but flexible on a day to day basis.
Long answer: We are set on building the company on a foundation of an office based culture. We are a very early stage company and think that we&rsquo;ll build the best company at the fastest pace we can whilst also having a lot of fun by physically working together 5 days a week. On a case by case basis (e.g. leaving early for a holiday, staying home for a builder, working remote for a few days to visit family, etc. etc.) we&rsquo;re very reasonable and flexible. We respect that this is not for everyone.
&zwj;What are the working hours like?
&zwj;We think 9am-6pm will bring a great cadence to work. As a Founding Engineer there will definitely be times you need to pick up work outside of these hours, we&rsquo;re keen to limit this where we can but also offer flexibility in return.
Can you sponsor visas?
We can support various types of working visas in the UK, including:<ul><li>
Skilled Worker Visa (both from within and outside the UK)</li><li>
Intra-Company Transfer Visa</li><li>
Graduate Visa Transition</li></ul>
We are keen to support candidates who require visa sponsorship. Please let us know which specific visa type you might need during the initial application or interview process. Our team is committed to helping talented individuals navigate the necessary visa requirements.
Compensation Range: &pound;50K - &pound;70K</div>

Founding Engineer - Early Careers

Voxquill

<div>I'm looking for our founding engineer!
 
The person who takes a live, paying fintech product and makes it truly ours.
We build receipt-and-proof automation for the self-employed: the app quietly finds your receipts (email, bank feeds, camera roll, texts), sorts them, matches them to your bank transactions, and produces accountant-ready exports. It's live on iOS and Android, it's SOC 2 certified, and people are paying for it. The model works.
I need one person who treats this codebase as theirs, ships fast, and owns the platform end-to-end. This is a founding engineer role with a real path to CTO.
Your first job is to take the keys.
 
Move the platform off the agency's Azure into ours, take custody of production, and the headline deliverable.
 
Build the automated test suite this codebase never had, with a CI/CD pipeline where a green build genuinely means &quot;safe to ship.&quot; Then you own the roadmap.
How we build matters as much as what we build.
 
We are not rebuilding an IT shop of tickets and manual QA.
 
Terrapin runs as an AI-native pod: Claude Code and agents do the repetitive work and produce tested, PR-ready changes; you own architecture, review, security, and the hard 20%.
 
AI gives you the velocity, your tests and pipeline are what keep that velocity from turning into breakage!
We want to ship multiple times a week and almost never break anything, and hold our SOC 2 line the whole way. If that model excites you rather than worries you, you're the person.
This is genuinely full-stack.
 
Strong .NET / C# backend on Azure, real ownership of infra, security, and DevOps, and polished mobile (React Native + Expo, iOS and Android); Because the app is the product. Testing isn't someone else's job here. It's the core discipline.
The kind of person whose teammates would describe as:<ul><li>
an owner, not a ticket-taker</li><li>
obsessive about shipping quality fast</li><li>
calm owning production for a product with real money moving through it</li><li>
someone who builds automation instead of doing the same thing twice</li><li>
security-minded by instinct, not as an afterthought</li></ul>
What you'd bring:<ul><li>
Senior+ .NET / C# backend, PostgreSQL, solid API design</li><li>
Real Azure ownership: App Services, networking, Key Vault, identity, CI/CD (Azure DevOps or similar)</li><li>
Strong React Native + Expo mobile, with genuine UI/UX taste</li><li>
Test automation and CI/CD as a way of life &mdash; you write the tests with the code</li><li>
Hands-on building with Claude Code / agent tooling, and doing it safely in a SOC 2 world</li></ul>
Bonus points: fintech / payments background, Plaid experience, or applied LLM work.
And the reason the right engineer will actually stay: receipts are just the wedge. We're building toward a verifiable, tamper-evident record of an economic event. Proof that banks, insurers, and AI agents can consume directly. Stripe is a payment rails. We're building proof rails.
You'd work directly with me every day &mdash; 18+ years in fintech and payments, two exits behind me &mdash; so you own the engineering but never carry the hard architecture, security, or product calls alone.
The details:
 
UK or EU-remote(temporarily), with solid overlap to UK hours and business trips.
We're genuinely open to strong candidates across both. Being open to relocating to the UK down the line is a plus, but not a day-one requirement.
 
Competitive base plus real founding-level equity.
One hard line: you build quality in through tests and CI/CD. We're deliberately leaving the manual-testing, hope-it-works world behind, and a dev who treats testing as optional isn't the hire. Everything else, we can talk about.
If you want founder-level ownership, a CTO trajectory, and an AI-native way of building, and owning a live fintech platform from week one lights you up, let's talk.
Apply and tell me about something you shipped that you're proud of, and one thing you broke and how you made sure it never happened again.</div>

Founding Engineer (Full Stack); Patch to CTO

White Circle

<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">About White Circle</h1>
White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies &ndash; simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn&rsquo;t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.<ul><li>
We&rsquo;ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others</li><li>
We process over 100M+ API calls every month</li><li>
We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model</li></ul>
We&rsquo;re at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks. You&rsquo;ll be joining at the most exciting time - early enough that the equity can be life changing but at a point where demand has been proven.
 
 
We&rsquo;re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems and build the category-defining company in AI safety - this role is for you!<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
What You&rsquo;ll Do</h2>
Automate low-value work out of the commercial process so the Sales team can spend more time closing deals<ul><li>
Design and build the systems that power the how we find acquire, and retain customers (both outbound and inbound)</li><li>
Own the CRM: you make sure our data is clean, structured, and reliable</li><li>
Build internal tools, API integrations, and custom automation logic</li><li>
Have real ownership &amp; shape the playbook: what we build, use, how it fits together, and how it scales</li><li>
Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach etc)</li><li>
Wire it directly into our operational systems so it changes how the team works</li><li>
Design the GTM data model (accounts, contacts and opportunities)</li><li>
Build and manage data pipeline, enrichment and integrations across the stack</li><li>
Build, ship and iterate fast</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
What We&rsquo;re Looking For</h2>
Background &amp; Experience<ul><li>
2+ years of experience in GTM engineering, technical RevOps, or a growth role where you were building automations and pipelines</li><li>
Experience designing and scaling systems in a high-growth company</li><li>
Hands-on with modern GTM tooling - Claude Code, Clay, Apollo, Instantly, n8n or similar - you've built multi-step enrichment and sequencing workflows, not just set up a table</li><li>
Comfortable with Python or SQL well enough to work with data, call APIs, and build lightweight scoring or enrichment logic</li><li>
Top-of-funnel focused - you know how to build systems that generate qualified pipeline at scale, from ICP definition through to booked meetings</li><li>
Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO</li><li>
Analytical and experimental mindset: proven ability to design tests, measure impact, and iterate quickly.</li><li>
Proven AI deployment experience (e.g., automations, agents, workflows)</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
What success looks like in the first 6 months</h2>
In your first six months, we would expect you to identify the highest-converting early segments, build a functioning outbound and follow-up engine, create clear messaging for one or two strong wedges, generate a meaningful pipeline of qualified conversations, and help convert early pilots or customers. Just as importantly, we would expect the company to understand its GTM motion far better because of your work.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
Compensation &amp; Benefits</h1><ul><li>
&pound;80k-&pound;110k salary</li><li>
Meaningful equity package</li><li>
All the hardware, tools, and services you need</li><li>
Team off-sites twice a year: we&rsquo;ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
How we hire</h1><ul><li>
Intro call with HR</li><li>
Take-home exercise</li><li>
Interview with Head of Revenue</li><li>
Final call with our CEO</li></ul>
Compensation Range: &pound;80K - &pound;100K</div>

Founding GTM Engineer

Foundation Partners Group

<div>Lead DevOps Engineer Central London (Hybrid, 2&ndash;3 days/week) | Up to &pound;150,000 | Just out of seed
Own secure, multi-tenant infrastructure end-to-end, from GitOps to compliance controls, in a hands-on, fast-paced role shaping one of the most ambitious applications of AI today.
The opportunity
This is a rare shot to join right at the inflection point. Our client just closed their seed round and is now scaling fast: a team of just 15 building an AI operating system for a demanding, security-conscious industry. A unified intelligence layer that connects evidence, reasoning, and action across a complex, high-stakes lifecycle where getting it right matters enormously.
The founding team includes operators who spent years deploying production AI inside some of the world's most demanding enterprise environments. They know what it takes to make ambitious technology hold up under real pressure, and they're now applying that standard to a domain that's ripe for transformation. This is early enough that what you build becomes the foundation everything else stands on, and senior enough that you'll be working alongside people who've done this at the highest level before.
The systems being built run inside security-conscious, compliance-bound enterprises, where the infrastructure underneath has to be as trustworthy as the intelligence layered on top of it.
The company now needs a Lead DevOps Engineer to own that infrastructure end to end. At a team of 15, this isn't a role where you sit in a queue of tickets. You'll be the single, clear owner of how the company deploys, operates, secures, and scales, across its own platform and across isolated customer environments where the bar for trust is absolute. It's a huge amount of responsibility and autonomy, which is exactly the appeal.
What you'll own<ul><li>
The GitOps deployment backbone on Argo CD, so a small team can ship continuously and safely across many clusters</li><li>
Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) across the fleet of production environments</li><li>
Infrastructure-as-code in Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt, the source of truth for everything the company runs</li><li>
Multi-tenant, per-customer isolation: standing up a fully isolated, compliant environment for each customer, with its own cluster and data plane, and deploying to it with confidence. This is the hardest and most important part of the job.</li><li>
Security and compliance posture: secrets management, access controls, infrastructure hardening, and the audit-grade controls customers will hold you to</li><li>
Observability: telemetry, metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting that keep a complex distributed system legible</li><li>
Reliability, incident response, and the operational runbooks that protect customer trust</li><li>
CI/CD and release automation that keep the shipping cadence high</li><li>
Developer experience: making it fast and painless for engineers to deploy and debug</li></ul>
Who we're looking for
The ideal candidate will have come from a FAANG, Anthropic, OpenAI, Palantir type organisation, or from an exceptional AI startup, where they have personally owned and built the DevOps function while remaining hands on. This isn't someone who managed a team that did the work. It's someone who did the work themselves at a high standard, and knows what world class infrastructure looks like because they've built it before.<ul><li>
At least 4 years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure</li><li>
You've owned production systems rather than only contributing to them, including multi-tenant or customer-specific environments, and you understand the complexity that comes with them</li><li>
Deep fluency with Kubernetes, a major cloud (AWS preferred), GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code, plus the judgment to know when not to add another layer</li><li>
You come from somewhere that held a high bar, and you expect engineering excellence from yourself and the systems around you</li><li>
You're hands-on and have no interest in a purely architectural role. You explain complex tradeoffs simply and don't over-engineer.</li><li>
You treat speed, security, cost, and reliability as constraints that all apply at once, and you've struck that balance before</li><li>
Bonus: you've operated under formal security or compliance regimes (SOC2, HIPAA, or similar) and know how to make controls a strength rather than a tax</li></ul>
Why this role<ul><li>
Ground floor of something huge: 15 people, large seed funding, and a mandate to build the infrastructure backbone from the ground up</li><li>
Real ownership: you're not one of many DevOps hires. You're the DevOps hire</li><li>
Central London, hybrid 2&ndash;3 days a week: flexibility without losing the energy of an in-person team</li><li>
Up to &pound;150,000, reflecting the seniority and trust this role carries</li></ul>
This is a high-intensity, high-stakes role. The team moves quickly and gives direct feedback, the responsibility you carry will likely outrun your title, and you'll go wherever the work needs you most, which sometimes means unglamorous tasks that matter more than anything else that week. The people who thrive here find that kind of ownership and growth exciting, and they weren't looking for a nine-to-five.</div>

Lead DevOps Engineer (AI Early Stage Startup)

Airwallex

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">About Airwallex</h2>
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide &ndash; including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more &ndash; with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.
Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you&rsquo;re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Attributes We Value</h2>
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you&rsquo;re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.
You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you &ldquo;get stuff done&rdquo; end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you&rsquo;ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let&rsquo;s build what&rsquo;s next.
What you&rsquo;ll do
Reporting directly to the CFO, you will shape the future of Airwallex&rsquo;s Finance. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution.
You will define and deliver the future of Airwallex&rsquo;s global Finance function. Acting as the architect of the Finance systems landscape, you will diagnose gaps today, design the target state and build the solutions that get us there.
You can see how processes, data, and platforms fit together; you can weigh build-versus-buy choices; and you can align stakeholders around a clear transformation journey.
Responsibilities<ul><li>
Embed deeply with the global Finance teams, understanding their needs to identify the highest impact use cases</li><li>
Define and own the end-to-end AI transformation roadmap for Finance</li><li>
Own technical delivery from prototype to production</li><li>
Codify working patterns into building blocks that others can use</li><li>
Lead change management and upskilling initiatives to enable adoption of new tools</li><li>
Track, measure and communicate the outcomes of your work, ensuring accountability</li></ul>
Who you are
We are looking for high-agency Builders. There are no layers of middle management or rigid ticketing queues here. You will hold complete end-to-end technical and product ownership&mdash;wearing the hat of a Product Manager to define the what and the why, and acting as a lead engineer to build the how.
Minimum qualifications<ul><li>
5+ years of software or forward deployed engineering experience</li><li>
Strong Product Sense: You look at engineering through a commercial lens. You care about user experience, business impact, and why a product is being built, not just the code itself.</li><li>
Comfort with Ambiguity: You enjoy working in spaces where requirements aren't fully defined yet, and you can independently map out technical specs from high-level direction.</li><li>
Pragmatic Problem Solver: You are resourceful, self-directed, and focused on delivering outcomes, finding efficient ways to work through technical or institutional blockers.</li><li>
Clear Communication: Ability to discuss deep technical trade-offs with core infrastructure teams and present clear, simplified product outcomes to executive stakeholders.</li></ul>
Preferred qualifications<ul><li>
Strong academic credentials from a top-tier university.</li><li>
Experience in top-tier management consulting, systems integration, or digital transformation leadership roles</li><li>
Hands-on experience with finance systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Netsuite) and automation/AI tools (e.g. ML-based reconciliation, workflow platforms)</li><li>
Familiarity with data architecture, analytics, and business intelligence to support decision-making and measure impact</li><li>
Experience building software that leverages Generative AI, LLMs, or automated agent workflows.</li><li>
Experience in fintech, payments, multi-currency ledgering, or regulated financial systems.</li><li>
Prior experience as a founder, founding engineer or early employee</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters</h2>
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page.
Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
Equal opportunity</h2>
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don&rsquo;t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.</div>

Product Engineer, Finance

Talan

<div>Company Description 
Talan Data x AI is a leading Data Management and Analytics consultancy, working closely with leading software vendors and top industry experts across a range of sectors, unlocking value and insight from their data. At Talan Data x AI, innovation is at the heart of our client offerings, and we help companies to further improve their efficiency with modern processes and technologies, such as Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). 
Job Description 
As our AI practice scales, we are seeking an experienced AI Architect / Engineer to act as the senior technical authority shaping how we design and deliver next-generation AI solutions. This is a role for someone who has moved beyond building individual models to architecting entire systems: agentic platforms, LLM-powered applications, and the production infrastructure that makes them dependable at enterprise scale.
You will sit at the intersection of strategy and delivery, operating across multiple client engagements simultaneously. In the early phases you will shape solutions, validate technical approaches, and translate ambiguous business problems into robust, deployable architectures. As engagements mature, you will provide the technical oversight that keeps delivery teams aligned to the original design intent. Your influence will be felt in pre-sales conversations, solution blueprints, and the technical standards that define how our practice builds.
This is a hands on architectural role, not a purely advisory one. We expect you to remain close to the code, to prototype where it accelerates a decision, and to set a credible technical example for the engineers and data scientists you guide.
Required skills &amp; experience:<ul><li>
Lead end-to-end solution architecture for AI and LLM-based systems, spanning data, integration, infrastructure, and deployment.</li><li>
Design agentic architectures and multi-agent orchestration patterns, defining how LLMs, tools, APIs, and retrieval layers interact reliably.</li><li>
Shape early-stage engagements (scoping, solutioning, estimation, and pre-sales) turning client ambition into deliverable technical plans.</li><li>
Provide technical validation and quality oversight across several concurrent projects, mitigating risk before it reaches delivery.</li><li>
Define LLM integration and prompting strategies, including RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, and guardrailing approaches.</li><li>
Establish MLOps and LLMOps practices that ensure solutions are observable, testable, and production ready.</li><li>
Set architectural standards, reusable patterns, and reference implementations that raise the quality bar across the practice.</li><li>
Partner with Responsible AI colleagues to embed safety, security, and governance into solution designs from the outset.</li></ul> 

Qualifications 
To qualify for this role, you must have:
<ul><li>Minimum 5 years in AI architecture or AI engineering, ideally 10+, with a track record of production deployments.</li><li>
Deep expertise in LLMs, agent frameworks (e.g. LangGraph, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel), API design, and orchestration.</li><li>
Strong cloud engineering experience.</li><li>
Proven MLOps / LLMOps capability &mdash; CI/CD for models, monitoring, evaluation, and cost optimisation.</li><li>
Hands-on software engineering background (Python and modern tooling) underpinning your architectural decisions.</li><li>
Comfort managing multiple engagements at once, with pragmatic judgement on trade-offs and delivery risk.</li></ul>
Ideally, you&rsquo;ll also have, but not essential:<ul><li>
Experience in consulting, professional services, or pre-sales environments.</li><li>
Exposure to enterprise-scale, regulated AI deployments (financial services, public sector, healthcare).</li><li>
Familiarity with vector databases, knowledge graphs, and advanced retrieval techniques.</li><li>
Relevant cloud or AI certifications.</li></ul>
You must be:<ul><li>
Willing to work on client sites, potentially for extended periods.</li><li>
Willing to travel for work purposes and be happy to stay away from home for extended periods.</li><li>
Eligible to work in the UK without restriction.</li></ul> 
#TalanUK #LI-HB1 
Additional Information 
Compensation &amp; Benefits Package:<ul><li>
BDP Plus &ndash; A reward programme whereby you accrue points to trade against a 3-month paid sabbatical or cash equivalent.</li><li>
25 days holiday + bank holidays.</li><li>
5 days holiday buy/sell option.</li><li>
Private medical insurance.</li><li>
Life cover.</li><li>
Cycle to work scheme.</li><li>
Eligibility for company pension scheme (5% employer contribution, salary sacrifice option).</li><li>
Employee assistance programme.</li><li>
Bespoke online learning via Udemy for Business.</li></ul>
Why join:
You will be a founding technical voice in a practice that is investing decisively in AI. The work is varied, intellectually demanding, and commercially significant, you will shape solutions that reach production, not slideware. You will have the autonomy to define how we build, the support of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, and a clear platform to grow into a practice-leading technical figure.</div>

AI Architect / Engineer (Agentic AI & LLM Architecture)

Humanoid

<div>Here at Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;ve set out on a mission to build the world&rsquo;s most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots. We&rsquo;re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 Alpha - our rapidly developed humanoid platform now running in real industrial pilots - and we&rsquo;re growing the team to take it even further.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Role</h1>
We are seeking a Principal Product Cybersecurity Assurance Engineer with deep expertise in product security, threat modelling, and risk assurance for highly regulated electromechanical systems. In this role, you will lead the delivery of product cybersecurity across Humanoid's HMND 01 platform family &mdash; the Alpha Wheeled industrial robot and the Alpha Bipedal home robot &mdash; both powered by our KinetIQ VLM/VLA-based AI framework. Working alongside product, firmware, autonomy, and hardware teams as part of the Systems Engineering and Architecture Team, you will define and maintain the cybersecurity assurance strategy for all product security activities from first concept through post-market deployment. Security at Humanoid is an engineering discipline inseparable from functional safety and central to our mission of creating the world's most reliable, commercially scalable, and safe humanoid robots. To excel in this position, you must demonstrate the authority to influence security architecture decisions across complex, cross-functional programmes, the rigour to build defensible security cases for novel cyber-physical systems, and the leadership to grow and guide a cross team of security engineers operating at the frontier of robotics.<h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
What You'll Do</h1><ul><li>
Team Leadership &amp; Product Security Delivery<ul><li>
Lead and develop a cross-functional team of security engineers, maintaining accountability for the delivery of product security services within product teams throughout the HMND 01 development lifecycle.</li><li>
Define product security requirements and advise development teams on suitable implementation standards, techniques, and toolchains for embedded and AI-enabled robotic systems.</li><li>
Partner with cross-functional teams to develop security protocols, tools, and processes that keep HMND 01 technologies ahead of emerging threats &mdash; including attack surfaces specific to the KinetIQ AI inference pipeline and cloud-to-robot communication architecture.</li><li>
Own and maintain key security artefacts for audit-ready cybersecurity documentation including Security Management Plans, Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) reports, Risk Assessments, and Remediation Action Plans across both platforms.</li></ul>
Security Assurance &amp; Certification<ul><li>
Drive security assurance through the full product lifecycle, ensuring every HMND 01 design is robust, compliant, and resilient. Contribute to the continual improvement of security engineering capability across the organisation.</li><li>
Ensure compliance with cybersecurity obligations under the EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230 where cyber controls intersect with safety-critical functions and compliance to IEC 62443 (for industrial/OT product security), and the EU Cyber Resilience Act.</li><li>
Provide independent Information Assurance (IA) reviews and risk assessments on complex, high-impact projects &mdash; with particular focus on cyber-physical systems where a digital compromise could result in physical harm to operators or end users.</li><li>
Review and provide guidance on security risk assessments, risk mitigation plans, mitigation gap analysis, and security management documentation in support of system cybersecurity certification.</li></ul>
Incident Response &amp; Lifecycle Security<ul><li>
Establish and maintain a Product Security Incident Response (PSIR) process, encompassing coordinated vulnerability disclosure, patch deployment pipelines, and post-field incident analysis.</li><li>
Define and oversee security monitoring requirements for deployed fleets, ensuring field data feeds back into risk files and security artefacts in line with post-market surveillance obligations.</li></ul>
Commercial &amp; Bid Support<ul><li>
Support the production of work package descriptions and cost estimates for product bids, services, and proposals that include product security scope.</li><li>
Represent Humanoid's security posture in customer and partner engagements, including regulatory consultations and certification body interactions.</li></ul></li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
What We're Looking For</h1><ul><li>
Proven, hands-on experience with ISO 27001/27004/27005 and the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF), applied to regulated hardware or embedded product programmes.</li><li>
Experience owning a security risk management system for highly regulated, safety-critical products &mdash; with background drawn from automotive, commercial vehicle, or industrial automation environments.</li><li>
Working knowledge of IEC 62443, with the ability to adapt ISO/SAE 21434 lifecycle methodologies to robotic or electromechanical product context.</li><li>
Solid understanding of engineering development lifecycles and how the product cybersecurity specialism aligns with systems engineering, functional safety, and hardware/software co-development.</li><li>
Ability to interpret Penetration Test reports and author Remediation Action Plans that address identified vulnerabilities in a structured, risk-prioritised manner.</li><li>
Clear, structured communication skills &mdash; able to articulate complex security risk arguments to both technical engineers and executive stakeholders with equal confidence.</li></ul>
Preferred:<ul><li>
Familiarity with Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) or equivalent threat modelling methodologies (STRIDE, PASTA) applied to embedded or OT/IT convergent systems.</li><li>
Understanding of secure-by-design principles for AI/ML-enabled systems, including securing inference pipelines, model integrity, and cloud-to-edge communication paths.</li><li>
Exposure to CAN bus, Ethernet backbone, or wireless interface security in mobile, vehicular, or robotic systems.</li><li>
Experience contributing to or establishing a Product Security Incident Response (PSIRT) process or coordinated vulnerability disclosure programme.</li><li>
Knowledge of UL 4600, UL 3300, or ISO 13482 and an appreciation of how cybersecurity evidence integrates into safety case arguments.</li><li>
Prior engagement with certification bodies (TUV, UL, BSI) or standards development organisations (ISO TC 184, IEC TC 65, SAE, IEEE RAS).</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">
What We Offer</h1><ul><li>
Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.</li><li>
30+ days off, including 23 days annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas&ndash;New Year shutdown).</li><li>
Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.</li><li>
Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.</li><li>
Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.</li><li>
Work at the frontier - collaborate daily with world-class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and humanoid robotics.</li><li>
Real ownership - direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.</li></ul></div>

Principal Product Cybersecurity Assurance

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