Package

• Annual salary: £80,000 – £90,000 (London; adjusted for location)
• Equity: 0.02% – 0.05% stock options (standard vesting)
• Location: Remote within the UK (London HQ)
• Benefits: Flexible working and high-ownership environment

What You’ll Be Doing

As our Senior AI Backend Engineer, you’ll build the core backend infrastructure that powers Instill AI’s AI-native product experiences — from large-scale unstructured data processing to real-time AI agent orchestration.

Build

• Design and develop high-performance APIs and backend services for AI workflows, including AI agents and model deployment
• Build robust data pipelines to process large-scale unstructured data (documents, audio, video)
• Integrate LLMs, VLMs, and other ML models into production-ready, reliable services

Engineer

• Apply best practices in architecture and infrastructure, including IaC, microservices, serverless, API-first design, and Twelve-Factor principles
• Ensure system performance, observability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments
• Work with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, and modern observability tools

Collaborate

• Partner with ML engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver end-to-end features
• Help shape engineering culture, best practices, and long-term architecture

What We’re Looking For