Software Engineer

Unlikely AI is a contrarian Artificial Intelligence start-up founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe .

William is best known for his key role in the creation of Alexa following the acquisition by Amazon of his first start-up, the voice assistant company Evi. Unlikely AI is his next start-up with ambitions to exceed that earlier success.

This is a key opportunity to join us as an early employee, to make a significant impact on the fortunes of the business and help define the company, culture, product and software engineering practices. Please see our Company Principles to understand the core things we value – in particular we are looking for exceptional people who are willing to tackle some of the most difficult technical problems there are, in order to create something extraordinary with huge impact.

We are building an extremely exciting AI platform and associated applications using novel and potentially revolutionary techniques.

Our team is currently small and we are looking for extremely smart and dedicated software developers of all levels of experience to help solve some very difficult engineering problems.

Compensation will be through salary and generous share options. The company has a tax-efficient EMI share option scheme set up (not available to larger companies) which allows us to provide real exposure to the success of the company without taxes being due when they are paid.

We are based in London. After two years of operating completely remotely during COVID we are now operating a hybrid regime where we have a small office near Holborn tube station which is available to anyone who wants to work there. We also have occasional team days where everyone meets face to face and days where people work heads down from home, communicating with colleagues using slack and zoom.

Degree within a related field, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Maths or equivalent

2+ years of experience of commercial software engineering (or more if applying for a more senior role)

Exceptional coding ability

Desire to solve really difficult software engineering problems

Ability or desire to learn and code in Java

Understanding of modern best practices for agile software development

Understanding of the architectural techniques needed to build massively-scalable systems

4+ years of experience with Java

Experience of AWS and building scalable systems within it

Experience and ability coding in Python and C++

Understanding of the state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence

Understanding of modern machine-learning techniques