AI Engineer, Reedsy
€70-120k
Plus 0-0.2% equity
A place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie books
Posted today
A place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie books
21-100 employees
Posted today
€70-120k
Plus 0-0.2% equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change the way books are published by giving authors and publishers access to talented professionals, powerful tools, and free educational content.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience integrating AI/ML into real-world products, with ownership of the full lifecycle — from modeling and evaluation to deployment and go-to-market execution
- Experience working with large language models (e.g., prompt engineering, fine-tuning, model selection, retrieval-augmented generation)
- Familiarity with orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom chaining frameworks)
- Knowledge of hallucination detection and mitigation strategies
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (preferably Google Cloud Platform) and scalable AI deployment
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases, and Elasticsearch
- Experience with AI developer tooling (e.g., Cursor, intelligent CI/CD, AI-powered QA)
Desirable
- Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds
- A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor
What the job involves
- At Reedsy, our goal is to build the best ecosystem for writers, supporting them at every stage of their creative journey
- Over the years, we've developed a suite of products, including a marketplace, book discovery platform, writing app, central authentication system, and email marketing tools
- As a publishing startup, we're thoughtful about how we integrate AI
- As an AI Engineer, you'll help us empower authors to do more — enhancing creativity, not replacing it
- You’ll focus on building intelligent features that support storytelling and streamline workflows
- Design and implement AI-powered tools for authors (e.g. a narrative co-pilot, visual storyboarding assistant, etc.)
- Improve internal workflows by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing UX across our products
- Build internal tools for AI development, including evaluation benchmarks and automated testing
- Collaborate closely with engineers and operations teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities
Our take
Reedsy helps authors find top publishers, editors, designers, translators and marketers. The company has built a community of over 1 million authors and due to the innovation of its service, it has been funded by the European Union through the EU's Horizon 2020 R&I program.
Reedsy stands out through helping authors at every stage of the publishing journey. The company offers various free tools in order to support authors - it offers insights into the writing craft on its blog, free writing courses on Reedsy Learning and its publishing professionals answer FAQ via video on Reedsy Live.
Reedsy also differentiates itself through its commitment to take climate action by reducing its carbon emissions - its a fully remote company that rarely organises in-person meetings, it supports responsible business travel by choosing trains over planes with economy class flights only and it supports vegan catering and snacks.
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Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"With not much experience in community management, everything was new to me. But this meant that I had the opportunity to learn a lot. And even..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2016
$1.3m
GRANT
Jul 2014
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $1.4m
Company benefits
- Remote work opportunities
- Reedski, our annual team retreat in the mountains
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Paid referral program
- Private health insurance 🇬🇧
Company values
- When we set out to build Reedsy, we want to help more people bring their ideas into life and publish in a professional fashion. We didn't have a clear idea of what our culture should be — our focus was on the product, and the successive hires we made helped us define our culture
- Today, we have a multicultural team of over 40 people, who come from all continents and speak over 15 languages. They're concise communicators and autonomous individuals. They care about being excellent at what they do. Lastly, they have a sense of meaning — Reedsy's goal is to support a whole generation of creators
- We’re entrepreneurs, designers, writers, hackers, bikers, engineers, runners, developers, soccer analysts, musicians, photographers, readers, travelers, gardeners, knitters, hikers, campers, and hard workers. Come make this list longer :)
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Emmanuel Nataf
(CEO)Previously studied at York University - Schulich School of Business.
Matthew Cobb
(Lead Designer)Previously Freelance Designer at Virgin Gaming for 3 months and Web and GUI designer at Personal Web Design Work for 2 years.
Ricardo Fayet
(CMO)Studied International Business at HEC Paris. Previously Marketing Analyst - Trainee at Hermès for 6 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Reedsy
Emmanuel Nataf (CEO)
- As over 2.5m people visit Reedsy's website each month, we make sure that our content is as diverse and inclusive as possible.
- We're a team of 47 with people from all colors, religions, sexual orientation, etc.
- 50% of the company is female/male.
- We speak over 15 languages.
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