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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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£107K – £262K/yr

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SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: As an ideal candidate you have a good understanding of how highly scalable and reliable production infrastructure is built. Most of our backend infrastructure is written in Rust. So familiarity with a compiled language such as C++, Rust, or Go is highly beneficial. RESPONSIBILITIES: Build the SpaceXAI API that serves our models to developers worldwide Own the end-to-end system responsible for high-throughput inference, handling billions of tokens per minute with low latency and high availability, including model serving infrastructure, request routing, SDK development, rate limiting, observability, and efficient scaling BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++ Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and MongoDB PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Experience with LLM inference engines and serving frameworks (e.g., SGLang, TensorRT, vLLM) Experience designing or building with agent SDKs and agent orchestration frameworks Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applicatio

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role You will focus on friction points around primarily backend issues for all teams in Engineering (90 Engineers). How should we do inter-service testing? Some teams are using monorepo, others aren’t. How can we bring overall stability up? Generally steering BE in the right direction. In the near future, standardising things across all of Engineering and bringing R&D teams (another 40 Engineers and Researchers) closer. You will have ownership of projects that span quarters, requiring you to have the ability to break a problem down into small steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively. You will evaluate your own work, leveraging our data pipeline and frameworks that we have established to understand the impact your features have on our commercial objectives and pivoting where necessary. You will consider the long-term direction of Engineering, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 12-18 months' time. You will work end-to-end, from our client application written in React to our monolithic backend written in Python, and lead projects that span across multiple teams. What we're looking

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team Our London-based team builds the backend systems that help ChatGPT scale reliably. We work on infrastructure close to the product, partnering with engineering teams to improve the performance, resilience, and operability of critical user-facing systems. Our work combines backend software engineering with distributed systems and production reliability. We build shared capabilities, improve high-traffic workflows, and make it easier to introduce new product functionality without compromising performance or availability. About the Role This role is for software engineers who want to build and evolve backend systems operating at significant scale. You’ll write production code, design shared infrastructure, and solve technical challenges involving performance, distributed systems, and system reliability. You’ll also own how those systems behave in production: how changes are rolled out, how issues are detected and diagnosed, and how recurring operational problems can be addressed through better software and system design. This is a strong fit for backend engineers who enjoy complex systems problems and want a direct connection between the infrastructure they build and the experience of ChatGPT users. In this role, you will: Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences. Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure that help product teams build and launch new capabilities safely. Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems as usage and product complexity grow. Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and other large-scale backend workloads. Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations while maintaining correctness, compatibility, and safe rollout and rollback. Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics to detect problems early and reduce customer impact. Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and turn operational lea

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom
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At Speechmatics, we’re expanding our user platform offering. We're looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer with a strong product mindset to help drive that growth. This is an opportunity to own end-to-end feature development at a leading-edge AI company, from shaping the user experience through to shipping and iterating based on real user feedback and analytics data. What you'll do Own product features from ideation through to delivery, contributing to UX thinking, frontend execution, and post-launch iteration Build polished, accessible user interfaces using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS Make UX and UI decisions independently, collaborating closely with designers and PMs rather than waiting on detailed handoffs Design and run A/B tests to validate product decisions and surface insights that improve the user experience Use analytics tooling such as Mixpanel to understand how people interact with the product and feed that learning back into what gets built Partner with backend engineers, product managers, and designers to ship features that genuinely move the needle for users and the business Write and maintain robust UI tests, taking ownership of quality in production and at scale Run user interviews and meet customers to understand how people use the product and what drives adoption What you'll need Proficiency in React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with a track record of shipping production-quality frontend code A product-minded engineering approach Comfort owning UX and UI decisions independently Hands-on experience with iterative development practices, including A/B testing and feature experimentation Familiarity with user analytics tools such as Mixpanel or a comparable platform Experience with UI testing frameworks and a solid grounding in frontend engineering best practices Confidence collaborating cross-functionally with designers, PMs, and backend engineers A track record of using user feedback and data to improve features Nice to have Experience us

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Here’s a summary of the role: Build cloud software that matters, grow your technical depth, and use modern AI tooling to do your best work. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving product problems, writing clean code, and helping services run reliably at scale. You’ll work on secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript, AWS , and modern engineering practices. You’ll be part of a collaborative product engineering team where you can own features, contribute to design discussions, support production systems, and keep growing across backend, cloud, and AI-assisted development workflows. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Design, build, test, and improve backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS . Take ownership of well-defined features from planning through release, including code quality, deployment, and production support . Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to turn requirements into practical, reliable solutions. Contribute to technical design conversations, code reviews, and engineering standards that keep the team moving well. Use AI tools to speed up research, coding, debugging, testing, and documentation, while checking outputs carefully and applying sound judgment. Help keep systems secure, observable, and maintainable by improving monitoring, reliability, and day-to-day development practices. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 3 to 5 years of professional software engineering experience building production applications in an agile environment. Strong backend development skills with Node.js and TypeScript, including experience building APIs or microservices. Experience with React or Angular in a product engineering environment. Hands-on experience with

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Here’s a summary of the role: Build software that matters, take real technical ownership, and use modern AI tooling to do your best work. This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex product problems, shaping robust solutions, and helping teams deliver reliable services at scale. You’ll work on secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript, AWS, and modern engineering practices. You’ll play a leading role within a collaborative product engineering team, owning complex features end to end, contributing to design and architectural decisions, supporting production systems, and helping raise the bar across backend, cloud, and AI-assisted development workflows. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Own and deliver complex backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS , from technical design through release and production support. Contribute to design and architecture discussions, making pragmatic decisions that balance delivery speed, maintainability, scalability, and security. Mentor and support less experienced engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and day-to-day collaboration. Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across the team to turn requirements into practical, reliable solutions. Use AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, research, and documentation, while validating outputs carefully and applying sound judgment. Strengthen service reliability, observability, and engineering quality by improving monitoring, incident response, testing, and development practices. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems in an agile environment. Strong backend development s

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time· Remote
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🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role We’re seeking a highly skilled fullstack software engineer to join our engineering team building advanced AI-driven agent systems that execute autonomous workflows, orchestrate multi-step tasks, and extend human capacity across enterprise applications. In this role, you’ll play a key part in designing, building, and scaling next-generation AI agents that integrate with enterprise data and services to solve real-world problems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn complex agent concepts into production-ready systems. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you'll do Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure agent-driven services and systems that autonomously accomplish tasks using modern AI frameworks. Develop and enhance robust infrastructure and high-throughput APIs, focusing on core agent capabilities such as memory, communication channels, skills, intelligent decision logic, security and workflow management. Integrate agent capabilities with backend services

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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We're looking for an ML Data & Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure that powers our speech AI models: the pipelines that source and prepare training data, and the platform that trains, evaluates, and serves them in production. Speech AI has a data problem most ML teams don't, and you'll be at the centre of solving it, working as part of our ML team to remove friction across the entire lifecycle and get better models into production faster. This is a broad, cross-functional role suited to someone who enjoys working across the full stack: data infrastructure, distributed systems, and production ML, and who takes ownership of problems end to end rather than waiting to be told what to fix. What you'll do Designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, validating, and storing large datasets used to train our models Developing and maintaining web scraping and data acquisition solutions to keep training datasets fresh, high-quality, and available at scale Building and operating the infrastructure that lets the ML team deploy and evaluate new models quickly, and that serves models efficiently and reliably in production Optimising infrastructure for both iteration speed and production reliability, including GPU utilisation, job scheduling, and training efficiency Implementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) across data pipelines and ML systems to catch issues early and keep things running smoothly Troubleshooting complex issues across distributed systems, spanning data infrastructure, training, and inference Continuously improving our data and MLOps practices, and helping shape the roadmap for how our platform evolves as we scale What you'll need Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with a solid backend or data engineering foundation Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and working with a major cloud provider Experience building data pipelines and ETL/ELT processe

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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£107K – £262K/yr

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SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We're seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and reactive programming. Has a strong product sense and high craft bar. Builds intuitive and delightful user experiences. Experienced in architecting modern large production apps while embodying technical excellence. Strong sense of ownership and agency. Able to put on multiple hats and take responsibility for large areas. Able to optimize for performance, stability and reliability. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: A proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition. Deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.). Rust for working with our backend components. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: £107,000 - £262,0

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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£107K – £262K/yr

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SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance. RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments. Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products. Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms. Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics. Le

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications. The Agents & Automations team builds the platform inside North that lets customers create AI-powered workflows. Some of these workflows are structured automations, such as routing requests, keeping systems up-to-date, or triggering approvals. Others are more flexible agents that can gather context, use tools, make decisions, and take action across enterprise systems. As an engineer on this team, you will help build the core platform that makes this possible: the workflow builder, execution engine, integrations, debugging tools, observability, evaluation systems, and feedback loops that help customers understand and improve what they deploy. This is broad product engineering work across frontend, backend, and AI-powered systems. The

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📍 London, London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications. The Agents & Automations team builds the platform inside North that lets customers create AI-powered workflows. Some of these workflows are structured automations, such as routing requests, keeping systems up-to-date, or triggering approvals. Others are more flexible agents that can gather context, use tools, make decisions, and take action across enterprise systems. As an engineer on this team, you will help build the core platform that makes this possible: the workflow builder, execution engine, integrations, debugging tools, observability, evaluation systems, and feedback loops that help customers understand and improve what they deploy. This is broad product engineering work across frontend, backend, and AI-powered systems. The

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📍 London, Greater London, United Kingdom· Full-time
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About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds secure, reliable systems that help OpenAI meet its legal obligations while protecting user data. We partner closely with Legal and engineering teams across OpenAI to support lawful data access requests and other critical legal workflows. Our work turns complex, high-stakes processes into auditable and dependable technical systems with clear human oversight and strong privacy and security controls. About the Role We’re looking for a full-stack Software Engineer to build the internal tools and data pipelines that power lawful data access request workflows and Legal Operations. You will work across product and data systems to make authorized retrieval and case handling accurate, efficient, and auditable. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ambiguous operational requirements into durable systems, cares deeply about sensitive-data handling, and wants to improve both technical reliability and the day-to-day experience of the people operating these workflows. In this role, you will: Design, build, and operate backend systems and workflow tooling for the full lifecycle of lawful data access requests, from intake and scoping through authorized retrieval, review, preparation, and audit. Build reliable data pipelines and interfaces across products and data stores so authorized teams can locate and handle the right records accurately and reproducibly. Implement least-privilege access, approval gates, provenance, audit trails, data minimization, and safe failure modes for sensitive workflows. Partner with Legal and Legal Operations to translate legal and operational requirements into clear technical designs and intuitive operator experiences. Identify responsible automation opportunities that reduce repetitive work while preserving human review, judgment, and accountability. Own production systems through testing, observability, incident response, documentation, and continuous reliability improvements. Hel

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time
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Skeletons, lasers, tattoo buses — the Torq brand grabs attention like nothing else in cybersecurity. And we're growing like crazy, backed by Series D funding, 200% employee growth, and 300% revenue growth. Fueling Torq's momentum is our game-changing AI SOC platform, backed by a team and culture that makes Torq one of Forbes' Best Startup Employers in America, and a Business Insider 'startup to bet your career on'. Life at Torq is all gas, no brakes. We're a team of relentless, collaborative go-getters pushing the boundaries of what's possible for security automation. Every role is an essential driver of Torq's success as the AI-native autonomous SecOps platform of choice for security teams across the Fortune 500. Over the past year, we've built one of the fastest-growing Enterprise Sales organizations in EMEA. Now we're looking for a hands-on Regional Sales Director to lead our Western Europe business across the UK, Ireland, France, Benelux, and Northern Europe. This isn't a role for someone who wants to manage from behind a dashboard. We're looking for a leader who enjoys being in the field, building pipeline alongside the team, partnering with customers, and helping experienced Enterprise sellers win bigger. Location: London, UK (preferred) What you'll do Lead, coach, and develop a team of Enterprise Account Executives across Western Europe. Own the regional sales strategy and execution to achieve ambitious growth targets. Drive pipeline generation, forecasting, operational excellence, and accurate sales execution. Partner closely with customers, Sales Engineers, Marketing, and Channel teams to accelerate strategic opportunities. Support the team throughout complex enterprise sales cycles, from prospecting to closed deals. Identify new business opportunities and expand Torq's presence across the region. Recruit, hire, and develop top-performing Enterprise sales talent. Represent Torq at customer meetings, executive briefings, and industry events. Foste

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📍 London, England, United Kingdom· Full-time· Remote
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🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About the role This is where security meets innovation at enterprise scale. As a security engineer, applications at WRITER, you'll be building the security foundations that protect the AI systems powering some of the world's most recognizable brands. You'll work at the intersection of application security, AI infrastructure, and developer enablement—partnering with engineering teams to embed security into every line of code while ensuring our platform remains both powerful and trustworthy. The opportunity is massive: you'll help define how enterprise AI applications are secured, from threat modeling our LLM architectures to building automated security controls that scale across our growing platform. This isn't about saying "no"—it's about finding creative ways to say "yes, and here's how we do it securely." You'll tackle challenges that most security engineers never encounter: securing AI agents, protecting training data pipelines, and designing controls for systems that didn

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