Founding AI Engineer (Staff)

Tracer is an early-stage startup building autonomous AI agents for production data pipelines. We are hiring a Founding AI Engineer (Staff) in London to own the core architecture and ship an agent that produces grounded RCAs and fix suggestions for a small set of high-value alerts.

Requirements

• 5+ years (ideally 10+) professional software engineering experience
• Proven track record of shipping real products at high velocity
• Strong backend and distributed-systems foundations, ideally with experience in data platforms and production pipeline stacks and incident/observability tooling

Benefits

• Salary + equity (equity typically ~0.3% – 2%+)
• 30 days annual leave
• Employee health insurance
• Visa sponsorship
• Weekly team dinners and socials
• Regular team offsites and trips