Founding Engineer

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.