Founding Product Engineer (AI & Agentic Systems)

Salary: £120,000 – £170,000 Equity: 0.25% - 1.2% In-person, with flexible remote days European visa sponsorship available About Aurora Aurora is the Lifestyle Operating System empowering the world’s highest-performing individuals. Consumer technology was supposed to give us leverage. To make it easier to find the right restaurant, the right trip, the right doctor. Instead, every major platform today is optimised against the person using it: more scrolling, more ads, more engagement loops. You have infinite choice and zero clarity. We exist to reverse that. Aurora takes millions of data points about you and about the world and finds the one thing that is right for you, at the right time. Our members — tier-1 founders, executives, and athletes — use Aurora to navigate travel, health, dining, experiences, and premium goods with the kind of judgment that used to require a team of people who'd known you for years. Over half use it every single day, 95% every week, and in our first 6 months months, member spend is outperforming industry benchmarks by 5×. Aurora is backed and chaired by Alex Macdonald, the most successful founder in this category, and has raised >$5M from experienced operators and tier-1 investors. We are now expanding the founding engineering team as we scale the product and the member base. Aurora is built in person from our offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles. The engineering team works primarily from our London office in Belgravia, with flexible remote days. The role We’re hiring a Founding Product Engineer to own and ship user-facing, AI-driven features end to end. This is a hybrid role that sits between engineering and product. You will be hands-on technically , while also acting as the product owner for specific features . You’ll define problems, shape solutions, work directly with curators and stakeholders, and ensure what we ship actually delivers value to members. You’ll work closely with the CTO, founders, backend and mobile engineers, and the operations team. Many of Aurora’s most important features live at the intersection of product judgment and agent orchestration - this role owns that intersection. This is a high-ownership role. You will take ambiguous ideas, turn them into concrete systems, ship them to production, and iterate based on real customer usage and feedback. Over time, this role can evolve into senior product leadership, technical leadership, or a hybrid path, depending on your strengths and ambitions. Aurora attracts people who want to build their own companies. We treat this role as training for that level of ownership. What you’ll do Own product features end-to-end, from problem definition to production, feedback, and iteration Act as product owner for assigned areas, balancing customer needs, technical constraints, and delivery speed Design and implement AI-powered workflows using LLMs, tools, and agentic systems Design agent flows that combine automation with human-in-the-loop escalation Work closely with our internal domain experts to understand real operational pain points and opportunities for leverage Collaborate with engineers to ship reliable, scalable implementations Define success metrics and use qualitative and quantitative feedback to guide iteration Debug production issues related to AI behavior, data quality, or workflow design Contribute code across the stack where needed, with a bias toward shipping value What we’re looking for Experience 4+ years of experience building production software Proven experience shipping AI-powered features used by real customers, ideally at scale Experience working with LLMs, prompt design, tool calling, and agentic flows Technical foundation Comfortable writing production-ready Python code Solid understanding of backend systems and APIs, even if not infrastructure-focused Experience working with data pipelines, embeddings, retrieval, or RAG-style systems Ability to reason about latency, cost, reliability, and quality trade-offs Product mindset You naturally think in terms of user outcomes, not just implementation details Comfortable operating with ambiguity and incomplete information Able to define the “right” problem before jumping to solutions Willing to make pragmatic decisions and adjust quickly based on feedback Collaboration Strong communicator who can work across engineering, product, and operations Comfortable taking ownership and being accountable for results Enjoys being close to customers and real usage Wants to work in person with a high-performance team Nice to have Experience acting as a product owner or tech lead on specific features Familiarity with Django or similar backend frameworks Experience with human-in-the-loop systems or operational tooling Understanding of mobile or frontend constraints Exposure to regulated or high-trust environments $2,000 Tech & Education budget Complimentary Oura ring or Whoop Complimentary longevity testing subscription Lifestyle perks, events, and access opportunities Full health benefits; 90% coverage, including full dental & vision Complimentary dinners and evening transport 15 Flexible remote days per year