AI Engineer at Shuttle (S20)
$100K - $150K  •  
Build Backends. Fast.
London, England, GB / Remote
Full-time
US citizenship/visa not required
6+ years
About Shuttle

Shuttle is the cloud infrastructure platform for developers building with Cursor and GitHub Copilot. We make it simple to ship reliable and scalable backends, so developers can focus on creating great products.

Over 20,000 developers use Shuttle to build and deploy Rust backends in minutes, and we’re now bringing the same zero-config experience to every developer. As AI tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot accelerate coding, infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck - Shuttle removes it.

Our Mission 🎯

At Shuttle, we’re on a mission to revolutionise developer experience for building web apps. Everything we do is about crafting an exceptionally simple, satisfying and effective way to do cloud development. We are open source community-driven and loved by thousands of engineers. Our vision: the ultimate platform to supercharge developers’ productivity.

Working With Us 😎

We’re a growth mindset company. We’re honest, open-minded, driven, and ambitious and we are only looking for people who share these qualities with us. Read more about our values here

Perks 🎁

  • Remote-friendly, flexible working hours and workdays
  • Flexible holidays and paid time off
  • Mental and physical health stipend
  • Educational and self-development budget
  • Support for attending and presenting at relevant conferences
  • Health insurance
  • Awesome work-from-home setup & equipment
  • Regular company off-sites
  • Weekly remote-friendly socials (games and more)
About the role
Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We believe that AI is going to change how people build and deploy software. We envision an AI-powered developer experience powering the next generation of applications in a simple, easy and enjoyable way.

This is no small task and will involve a series of difficult and cutting edge problems. We’re looking for a problem solver to drive this vision.

You’ll need to be product obsessed and care deeply about providing developers with the best possible experience. This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing startup and have a real impact on its direction. This is not a role for the faint-hearted.

Job Description:

  1. Speaking to users and helping drive the AI product strategy for Shuttle
  2. Working with the rest of the team to research, develop and design the optimal AI-powered developer experience
  3. Leading prototyping, product delivery, and driving velocity while ensuring a high level of quality
  4. Hands-on coding combined with being the subject matter expert for AI at Shuttle
  5. Staying on top of the latest developments and providing technical leadership

Must Haves:

  • 5+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, writing maintainable application code
  • Experience using GenAI models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok)
  • Led and delivered projects from inception to production. Able to provide examples of how successful deployments were measured.
  • Experience with at least one Cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred) (2+ yr)
  • Ability to communicate and coordinate across both technical and non-technical teams.

Bonus points:

  • Experience in deploying, running and evaluating GenAI models in production environments.
  • Experience building AI-powered developer tools and genuine excitement about developer productivity.
  • LLM cost optimisation experience (comparing different open/closed source models and making quality, speed and cost decisions).
  • Experience applying AIOps/LLMOps best practices, incl. prompt engineering.
  • Experience in cloud-native architecture and a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructural primitives.
  • Experience with AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, ECS, EC2, RDS, Networking, CloudWatch).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform) and using CI/CD best practices.
  • Experience as a senior member of a startup/scale-up team.
  • Interest or experience in learning using Rust.
Interview Process
  • First chats - These are initial conversations with the team to learn about you and your goals, discuss our company culture, and discuss the technical aspects of the job.
  • Take-Home assignment - Complete a relevant project asynchronously to showcase your skills and problem-solving approach. The assignment will be discussed during an interview.
  • Interview with founders.

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