# Founding AI Engineer

Overview At Upsolve AI, we’re building the AI-native BI platform from first principles. We’ve already built the foundation: a modern embedded analytics platform designed to work seamlessly with LLMs and agentic systems. Now, we’re going all in on building the next generation of agentic data analysis - think “Cursor for data analytics,” integrated directly into any BI and reporting stack and designed to be embedded into our customers’ products. We’re a Y Combinator-backed (W24) startup with strong funding and support from top-tier investors (General Catalyst, Samsung Next, Soma Capital, and founders of Airtable and Handshake). The Founding Team Ka Ling Wu, Co-founder & CEO, previously led product solution development at nPlan, a Series A AI & Construction tech startup, and before that spent four years at Palantir, where she spearheaded HyperAuto and launched Palantir’s Korea operation. Serguei Balanovich, Co-founder & CTO, spent seven years at Palantir pioneering early Supply Chain and Manufacturing work and productizing it into HyperAuto. Together, we bring over 15 years of experience in data engineering and analytics, taking Palantir’s HyperAuto from inception to launch, scaling i

- **Id**: 1270563
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/upsolve-ai-founding-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T23:56:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T20:29:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4833
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Embedded & Customer-Facing Analytics, AI Data Analysts & Text-to-SQL

## Company

- **Id**: 2196156
- **Name**: Upsolve AI
- **Domain**: upsolve.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/upsolve-ai>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 140000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 187786

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Airtable** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **DSPy** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Mastra** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T23:56:20Z

## 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**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.663
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 187786
- **Is top pay**: no

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