Senior AI Engineer - APAC + Africa
Work with founders and senior leaders to turn AI-assisted prototypes into reliable production systems and shape an early-stage enterprise AI governance product.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship core product features, systems, and infrastructure.
- Turn AI-assisted prototypes into reliable, scalable, production-grade software.
- Own architecture, security, quality, and technical direction across major product areas.
- Use Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents to increase engineering output.
- Direct, evaluate, and control agentic development workflows with human oversight.
- Define engineering standards, architecture patterns, review practices, and AI-native workflows.
- Work with founders on product strategy, technical tradeoffs, and execution.
- Debug complex issues and make high-judgment technical decisions.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years building and shipping production software.
- Experience owning systems used by real users, including production incidents, scale, reliability, and maintainability.
- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.
- Ability to use AI agents while maintaining control over quality, security, and architecture.
- Deep software engineering fundamentals in architecture, debugging, system design, and code quality.
- Strong security instincts regarding risks from AI-generated code.
- Judgment about AI tool capabilities, hallucinations, and the need for human expertise.
- Strong ownership mindset and comfort with ambiguity and difficult technical problems.
- Startup, 0-to-1, founder, first-engineer, or early-stage product experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first setup with flexible hours.
- Competitive compensation with performance-based upside where applicable.
- Direct collaboration with founders and senior management.
- Meaningful ownership and autonomy.
- Structured onboarding and access to necessary tools.
- Opportunity to build high-impact AI and Web3 products.