About Native
Native is a VC backed AI startup building the world’s most accurate AI for databases reasoning. This is hard.
This is an unsolved problem that once solved will change how every enterprise operates.
We recently published our results, achieving rank 1 on the industry standard benchmark.
Our research team is based in London.
Everyone has high agency, obsessed with the problem we are solving, embraces the intensity of a 6-day week and has the ambition to build something world changing.
We are a exceptional engineers and researchers taking a novel approach to accurate database reasoning.
About the role
This is a founding role, with opportunity to shape the architecture from day one.
* Productionise research into robust backend services
* Design and build APIs used by internal systems and customers
* Work deeply with databases (SQL, complex schemas, real-world data)
* Own scaling, performance, and reliability of backend systems
* Design for correctness, observability, and reproducibility
* Think through edge cases, failure modes, and system boundaries
* Help shape the backend architecture of the company from early days
Required experience
* Experience with Python in production systems, plus at least one additional backend language (e.g. Rust, Java, Go)
* Experience building and running production backend systems
* Comfortable turning ambiguous research or ideas into real software
* Solid understanding of APIs, databases, and distributed systems
* Engineering taste: you care about clarity, correctness, and trade-offs
* High ownership mindset. You ship, you own, you improve
Why join us
This is a rare chance to join a founding team operating at the frontier of AI, with the resources to win.
* Impact: You will push the frontier of foundation models for an under-explored, massively valuable domain.
* Team: We are a small, collaborative, world-class research team based in central London.
* Founding level equity + competitive salary: We want you to share in the upside of what we are building. As part of the founding team, you will receive meaningful ownership alongside a salary that allows you to focus on building something great.
* Direction: Chance to shape the direction of a new class of foundation model from day one.
Culture
* At Native, we look for people with exceptional engineering ability, who want to win.
* Everyone loves building and is ambitious enough to want to change how the world operates for the better.
* We run towards hard problems.
* We are creative problem solvers, who keep going until we find the underlying principle of the problem, and build to solve that.
* If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, are intrinsically motivated and want to have a huge impact, we are a great fit.