The Role
This is not a standard AI engineering role. You will work on high-impact, experimental projects that sit at the core of 8club's moat — from personalised curation and smart event matching to AI-generated social experiences. You'll be given ambitious ideas and a green field to turn them into working products.
Why This Role Matters
8club's long-term differentiation isn't just content — it's intelligence. Who gets invited to what, how events are curated, how connections are surfaced. AI is the layer that makes 8club feel like it knows you. You build that.
What You'll Do
Rapidly prototype and ship AI-powered features across curation, matching, and social discovery
Design and own 8club's AI infrastructure — model selection, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and evaluation
Work on confidential research projects that are not yet announced — you'll know what they are after joining
Build POCs in days, not weeks — then work with the team to productionise the best ones
Stay ahead of the AI curve: evaluate new models, tools, and techniques as they emerge
Own the AI roadmap alongside the founders and product team
What We're Looking For
3+ years of hands-on AI/ML engineering experience
Deep familiarity with LLMs, embedding models, vector databases, and RAG pipelines
Strong software engineering foundation — you can build production systems, not just notebooks
Experience with APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open-source model stacks (Hugging Face, Ollama)
Ability to work with ambiguity — you're given a goal, not a spec
You have shipped at least one AI-powered product that real users interacted with
Bonus Points
Experience with recommendation systems or social graph algorithms
Research background or publications in ML/AI
Mobile AI experience (on-device inference)
Background in consumer social products
AI & Tools We Use
LangChain / LlamaIndex for AI pipelines
Pinecone / Weaviate for vector search
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini APIs
Python, FastAPI for AI service infrastructure