Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure
Core
Build and lead the engineering team to take a research-grade prototype to production for graph-native narrative intelligence infrastructure serving media, public-sector, and corporate clients.
Role type
Founding Engineer (NLP Systems & Infrastructure)
Builds
Production data and NLP pipelines, AI/ML integrations, and secure infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector customers.
Domain
Deep-tech, Narrative Intelligence, Graph Databases, NLP
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, production data/NLP systems, PostgreSQL, graph databases, vector stores, embeddings, language model integration, full-stack development (APIs, UIs)
Preferred skills
Early-stage startup experience, discourse data ingestion at scale, customer-hosted deployment packaging
Technologies
Dagster, Prefect, Airflow, Temporal, React, Vue, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm
Responsibilities
Own end-to-end production architecture (pipelines, CI/CD, observability), drive engineering roadmap, develop first production slice, hire and manage engineering team, set architecture direction and standards
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC leading team growth