Ema

AI Resident UK/EMEA

United Kingdom (Remote). Posted a month ago

The role

This is a 6-month builder role where you will work in the production codebase on real customer problems. You will own delivery end to end, from understanding problems to shipping and supporting them in production.

What you will do

  • Work in the production codebase on real customer problems and real production data
  • Take work from a problem statement to a shipped, measured result
  • Build and ship AI Employees for UK and European enterprises
  • Turn patterns from the field into core product including new connectors, agent primitives, APIs and tooling
  • Make agents measurably better through benchmarks, failure mining, and production traces
  • Work on latency, uptime, inference cost and observability
  • Work on PII detection and redaction, data residency, and audit-ready evidence

Required qualifications

  • A builder's mindset and high agency
  • Final-year undergraduates, MSc/MEng and PhD students, recent graduates and self-taught builders
  • Strong engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and clean code in Python, Go or a similar language
  • Comfortable with a large production codebase
  • Real depth in chosen track: Backend (services, APIs and data modelling), AI/ML (ML fundamentals, PyTorch, LLM systems or evals), or Systems & Infra (Linux, containers, cloud and networking)
  • Honest measurement as a habit
  • Clear communication in writing and in person
  • Must have the right to work in the UK for the length of the residency

Nice to have

  • A link to something you've built such as a GitHub repo, a live URL, a demo, or a write-up

Benefits

  • Mentorship from a senior mentor
  • Weekly 1:1s
  • Regular reviews with your team
  • Exposure to the founders and engineering leadership
  • A path to full-time roles for top-performing residents

Before you apply

  • You must have the right to work in the UK for the length of the residency

About the company

Ema builds AI Employees for HR, IT and Finance. The team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs.