Senior AI Engineer

About us

Condukt is the next-generation compliance platform for financial services, offering an agentic solution powered by real-time data for business identity.

Always-on and policy-aware, Condukt enables financial institutions and fintechs to gain actionable insights into business verification - unlocking growth, increasing efficiency, and strengthening compliance.

We were founded by former operators and builders with deep experience in banking, payments, and lending. Today, our team spans across London and Porto, bringing together engineers, product owners, and operators from companies like Revolut, Meta, Block (Square), SumUp, American Express, Yandex, and OakNorth.

Trusted by leading regulated entities, including Wise, Tide, Mollie, Shift4, Flatpay, and myPOS, Condukt is backed by top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and MMC Ventures.

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our team. You will own the systems that connect our models to our product: the data pipelines that feed them, the context they work with, the multi-agent systems they run in, and the metrics that tell us whether they work. You'll set the standards and patterns our team builds on and work closely with our ML and backend engineers to take AI functionality from prototype to reliable, production-grade systems.

As an early-stage startup, we pride ourselves on our ability to roll up our sleeves and build from scratch. You’ll ship code frequently, iterate quickly based on feedback, and still meet the stringent security, performance, and uptime requirements our clients expect.

We all love to build, scale, and grow: our leadership team has a strong track record of building products, scaling teams, and driving growth, and our ambitious engineers join us from leading tech companies and unicorns.

If you’re passionate about building the foundations that make AI products reliable, measurable, and fast to iterate on, this role is for you. You’ll have a meaningful opportunity to shape our engineering culture from the ground up.

What you'll do

Own the data pipelines behind our AI platform end to end, turning register data and web content into parsed, structured data with a full audit trail and strong data-quality checks

Build the context management layer that decides what our agents and LLMs see, balancing relevance, token budgets, memory, and cost

Build the harnesses our agents run in: the agent loop, tool calling, context assembly, guardrails and tracing

Design and build multi-agent and autonomous agent systems, including the agent-to-agent interfaces that let our agents hand work to each other reliably

Develop evaluation pipelines and production metrics for LLM and data quality, so every change to a model, prompt, or pipeline can be measured before and after it ships

Run and harden our LLM integrations in production, with robust fallbacks, rate limiting, caching, cost tracking, and observability

Set up MLOps practices such as CI/CD for ML components, versioning of prompts, models, and datasets, and safe rollouts

Work closely with ML and backend engineers to turn prototypes into reliable production services with clean interfaces

Continuously improve our engineering, data, and AI practices, helping define standards, processes, and tooling that align with industry best practices

What you bring

You are an effective and self-driven builder who enjoys working across the boundary between ML, backend engineering, and DevOps

5+ years of experience as a software, data, or ML engineer in product-centric settings

Experience in production-level Python and building backend services and APIs

Experience integrating LLMs in production and handling their practical limits: context windows, cost, latency, and non-determinism

Experience building agent harnesses and multi-agent, autonomous agent, or agent-to-agent systems in production

Experience setting up evaluation and metrics for AI systems, and using them to make decisions

Familiarity with MLOps practices, containers, CI/CD, and at least one major cloud platform

Experience self-hosting open-weight models is a plus

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-moving environment

Our Offer

Tackle meaningful problems with real-world impact

Competitive salary and equity package

Join us in our Porto office, minimum 3 days a week

Flat hierarchy with direct access to founding team

Top-of-the-line equipment

Private health insurance, plus sick and compassionate leave as needed

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