Founding AI Solutions Engineer

Arkwright helps organisations integrate AI into real-world operations through advisory, engineering delivery, and fractional leadership. Our focus is pragmatic outcomes: tools that work reliably, fit existing workflows, and remain maintainable as models and platforms evolve.

As a founding hire, you will work across client discovery, solution design, implementation, and enablement. This is a remote role with occasional on-site workshops (travel expenses covered).

• ➢Lead or support discovery engagements: requirements, workflow mapping, constraints, success metrics
• ➢Deliver AI-enabled solutions: internal assistants/agents, automations, integrations, and tooling
• ➢Implement evaluation and reliability practices appropriate to the client’s context (e.g., test sets, regression checks, monitoring, fallbacks, cost controls)
• ➢Collaborate with client engineering teams and stakeholders to integrate solutions into existing systems
• ➢Deliver workshops, documentation, and training for technical and non-technical audiences
• ➢Support ongoing iteration as tools/models change (deprecations, performance shifts, new releases)

We prioritise demonstrated ability over credentials. You do not need a traditional CS background, but you should have strong practical experience building and deploying LLM/agentic systems.

• ➢Strong understanding of LLM behaviour and limitations (context tradeoffs, hallucinations, prompt sensitivity)
• ➢Experience with modern developer workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode)
• ➢Practical agent architecture experience (tool calling, orchestration, memory/context strategies)
• ➢Comfort with production delivery considerations (reliability, observability, security boundaries, documentation)
• ➢Customer-facing confidence: workshops, demos, technical support, and stakeholder communication
• ➢Strong written communication and attention to detail

• ➢Familiarity with evaluation approaches and measurement of quality/reliability over time
• ➢Experience designing solutions that are “procurement-ready” (clear data handling, audit-friendly change logs)

• ➢£60,000–£80,000 salary + meaningful equity
• ➢Fully remote by design (no office mandates)
• ➢25 days annual leave + public holidays (33 total)
• ➢£2,000/month AI tooling + compute budget (API credits + subscriptions), scaling with need
• ➢Work across multiple industries on applied AI systems with real users

We apply enterprise-grade patterns — evaluation, monitoring, and change-safe iteration — right-sized for the client’s stage. We value clarity, pragmatism, and shipping.