Visiting AI Engineer

About Playfair

We're a VC fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing: bringing discipline, diligence, dedication and depth of thought to an intentionally low volume of investments. We exist to nurture the most promising founders of today to build the category-defining companies of tomorrow. Our pre-seed to Series A graduation rate is 78%, ~4x the industry average. 

Our team is a mix of angel investors, operators, founders, engineers, lawyers, bankers, accountants, professional poker players, salespeople, product managers, biochemists and marketeers who share a deep passion for startups.

Since 2013, our founders have raised >$3bn of follow-on capital from the world’s best specialist and multi-stage funds, including Nory ($37m Series B, Kinnevik), Orca AI ($72.5m Series B, BPC), Protex AI ($36m Series B, Hedosophia) and StackOne ($20m Series A, GV). 

Our fund performance puts us in the top quartile against US and European benchmarks, and we are consistently ranked amongst the best firms in Europe by the people that matter most to us: founders. In Founders Choice anonymous polling, we were voted 3rd best VC fund in Europe. 

Your Role

As we enter the fourth year of investing from our $70m third fund, we’re looking for a technical generalist to join the investment team.

You’ll spearhead all aspects of our automation activities by solving internal tooling gaps and building the first versions of products that help us source deals, automate repetitive workflows, and scale our support for portfolio companies.

You won't just be writing code but taking an active part within our operations to figure out where AI and automation can move the needle most. This is an opportunity for you to dive deep into the VC tech stack and to build impactful products with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the role can start immediately.

• Technical Native: AI-native talent obsessed with the latest models and tools.
• Hands-on Experience: You've previously shipped and deployed AI tools.
• Venture Exposure: Some familiarity with or interest in VC operations and processes.
• Product Thinker: You obsess about your customers and building great products for them.
• Ownership Mindset: You thrive with levels of ownership, autonomy and responsibility.
• Culture: You’re high energy and proactive but equally low ego.
• Here are our full firm values
• You’re available for minimum 2 days a week and work from time to time in our Farringdon office across a 6-12 month period

• Access to the investment team to learn the venture business from the inside 
• £35,000 per annum (pro-rata)
• Statutory pension
• £50 per month wellness credits through Heka
• Regular team socials and occasional team away trips
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (pro-rata)