Founding Engineer

About the company

A fast-growing healthcare technology start-up is using artificial intelligence to improve clinical trial recruitment. Its platform automates tasks such as contacting potential participants, pre-screening, scheduling and follow-up, helping research teams spend less time on manual administration and more time supporting clinical studies.

The company's mission is to remove a major operational bottleneck in clinical research and help treatments reach patients sooner. Its longer-term ambition is to develop technology that supports more of the clinical research process. The team brings together engineers, artificial intelligence specialists, clinicians and healthcare operators. Its culture values ownership, initiative, collaboration and continuous learning, offering the opportunity to make a direct contribution to a product already in use and help shape the company as it grows.

What the job entails

As a Founding Engineer, you will build and scale the core systems that enable AI agents to support clinical trial recruitment. You will design and develop agent-based systems, from voice interactions to workflow orchestration, and take complex projects from technical architecture through to deployment.

You will help develop reliable infrastructure, monitoring and observability, and build data pipelines to process and serve healthcare information. You will also evaluate and integrate new AI models and improve internal tools to support new product capabilities and help the engineering team work more effectively.

This is a high-ownership role: you will work closely with colleagues across engineering, AI, clinical and operational teams, using your judgement to solve difficult problems and deliver high-quality products quickly. The role is based in the London office five days a week.

Key requirements / What we look for

• At least three years' professional full-stack engineering experience, with a strong preference for start-up or founding experience.
• A track record of building high-quality products quickly and tackling challenging technical problems.
• Sound technical judgement, an ownership mindset and motivation to keep learning and improving.
• Willingness to work in the London office five days a week.
• Interest or experience in life sciences, biomedical fields, healthcare technology or clinical research is an advantage.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary of £90,000-£130,000, (plus equity) with flexibility for exceptional candidates.

• Private health insurance, gym membership and 25 days' annual leave plus UK public holidays.
• Visa sponsorship is available.