Job Description
Founding Engineer
Location: Hybrid (2–3 days/week in London office)
I am representing a fast-moving, mission-driven start up building an AI-powered clinical knowledge platform.
What You’ll Do:
* Build and scale backend services (Python/FastAPI) for ingesting, indexing, and serving medical content.
* Develop retrieval infrastructure using vector databases (e.g. PGVector, Pinecone).
* Deploy on GCP (Cloud Run, Vertex AI) with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools.
* Collaborate across product, mobile, and clinical teams to ship weekly.
* Ensure secure, compliant data handling
What you need:
* 5+ years backend experience (Python preferred).
* Strong background in ML, search, or recommender systems.
* Skilled in vector search, embeddings, and LLM-based RAG.
* Hands-on with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS/Azure).
* Comfortable in early-stage, fast-paced environments.