# Founding Engineer

About Delfa Billions of people still suffer from every-day diseases. One key reason? Clinical trials are broken. Despite $120 billion spent each year, most trials are delayed due to bottlenecks like patient recruitment. Delfa is fixing this with autonomous AI agents. We're building AI agents to automate clinical trials. In the last year from we’ve already: Deployed onto 500+ trials across multiple conditions Reached seven figures in ARR,growing 25% MoM Raised an oversubscribed $3.8m seed from tier-one AI investors What You'll Do You'll build and scale the core systems that enable Delfa's AI agents to deliver real-world clinical impact. Design, build, and scale AI agent systems end-to-end: from voice interactions to intelligent workflow orchestration across trial sites Own complex projects from architecture to deployment, with real autonomy over technical decisions Build and evolve the infrastructure, observability, and monitoring systems needed to ensure quality and reliability at scale Integrate leading-edge models from AI labs into production workflows, evaluating and adopting new capabilities as the frontier moves Design robust data pipelines for ingesting, transforming,

- **Id**: 1086007
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/delfa-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T04:34:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:01:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4443
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Gym membership, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Clinical Trial Services (CRO)

## Company

- **Id**: 676876
- **Name**: Delfa
- **Domain**: delfa.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/delfa-2>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 68000
- **Max usd**: 154000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 25

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **Honeycomb** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T09:07:29Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.334
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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