Principal Engineer, UnlikelyAI
1-2 days a week in office
AI development company
Job no longer available
AI development company
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
1-2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a world where highly intelligent automated systems enable humanity to flourish and benefit us all.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive software engineering experience, with exceptional coding ability ideally including experience in high-growth start-ups
- Ideally 5+ years of experience leading technical projects as an individual contributor, projects with mission critical impact, working cross-team and cross-organisation where required and executing on delivery
- Demonstrable success in solving complex technical problems
- Exceptional at providing feedback, and a strong mentor to others, able to educate on expertise
- Demonstrable success in ensuring the highest quality of architecture and design of systems
- Expert knowledge and experience of using architectural techniques to build massively-scalable systems - or systems which can become massively scalable
- Expertise in best practices for agile software development
- Ability and desire to learn new technologies quickly and work in a fast paced start-up environment
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for an extremely smart and dedicated Principal Engineer to drive technical expertise, engineering best practices and solve significantly complex technical problems
- You will be responsible for driving clarity, technical innovation and effectively influencing technology direction and decisions
- This is an excellent opportunity to have a huge impact on shaping best in class engineering across the company
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UnlikelyAI is a startup that uses Artificial Intelligence to solve challenges previously considered impossible for computers, aiming to push the revolutionary technology to new frontiers.
It's an early-stage company built from a unique AI model - neuro-symbolic AI. This model incorporates neural network approaches best known from the likes of OpenAI, but UnlikelyAI integrates this with Symbolic AI architecture. The latter can address the weaknesses of LLMs (mainly their "hallucinations) as it "mimics" human reasoning. Unlikely's first product was Crossword Genius - an app that uses AI and machine vision to solve cryptic crosswords.
The company has raised a large sum of money, most recently in an oversubscribed 2022 seed round. Its founder and CEO, William Tunstall-Pedoe, was heavily involved with the development and release of Amazon Alexa, boding well for Unlikely's success. 2024 leadership hires will revitalise the company's strategy and growth as it develops new products, whilst a partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, announced in 2025, will develop new customer experience opportunities.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$20m
SEED
Oct 2020
$1.5m
ANGEL
Total funding: $21.5m
Company benefits
- 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Tax efficient EMI scheme for share options
- Private Health Care
- Hybrid Working
- Pension
- Payroll Giving
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Socials & Offsites
Company values
- Product Magic, Invention and Obsession - We obsess about building magical products that amaze our customers and change their lives. We search ceaselessly for the best ideas and invent to create the radically new. We are not limited by the conventional. We make software do new things. We bring science fiction to life
- Exceptional People, Coaching and Growth - We work relentlessly to raise the standard of the team through recruitment of ever more exceptional people, coaching, self-improvement, feedback-seeking and learning. We all own making our work environment challenging, exciting, welcoming and fun
- Impact and Big Thinking - We prioritise by what has the biggest impact. We aim for the absurdly ambitious. We are not limited by what other people say is possible
- Truth and Dissent - Businesses can win by seeing the truth more clearly. We willingly seek diverse opinions; we hold our assumptions up to daylight and we discover what is true with data. We are all required to respectfully challenge any thinking when we believe there may be a better way. As a team, we fully get behind the chosen direction, even if doubt remains
- Action - Speed matters. Much learning comes from trying and only rarely do decisions require prolonged study. We have the courage both to make swift decisions and to reverse them when we learn they are wrong
- Trust and Humility - We earn the trust of our colleagues, customers and partners with every interaction. We listen attentively, communicate openly, demonstrate great judgement and treat people with respect. We take responsibility when things don't go to plan and swiftly admit mistakes when they occur
- Highest Standards - To succeed we apply the highest standards to everything that we do. We benchmark ourselves against the best and aim to improve far beyond. We seek out best practice and adapt it for our situation and needs
- Ownership - We are owners. We take responsibility, regardless of role, and see it through
- Delivery and Grit - We deliver. We persevere. We set and hit challenging objectives, deal effectively with set-backs, continuously improve the right metrics and succeed
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
William Tunstall-Pedoe
(Founder & CEO)Founder of Evi which was acquired by Amazon in 2012. Became Principal Product Manager at Amazon, and helped build and launch Amazon Alexa and Amazon Echo.
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