AI Research Engineer
Posthog
Hybrid (UK)Posted 2 months agoDiscoveredMatch locked
HybridFullTime6+ years expEngineering
About PostHog
PostHog is your product's context layer. It ingests and stores your analytics, errors, replays, and business data so you and your agents can query and act on it. We launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort . We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:
- A suite of analytics and observability tools, including product analytics , replay vision , AI observability , and error tracking
- PostHog MCP for users and their agents to query and act on their product and business data
- Data warehouse so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
We are: •
Product-led
. More than 500K organizations have installed PostHog, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
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Default alive
. Revenue is growing incredibly quickly, and we're very efficient. We raise money to push ambition and grow faster, not to keep the lights on.
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Well-funded.
We've raised more than $180m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.
We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible .
Things we care about
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Transparency
Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook . Internally, we share revenue, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to make good decisions.
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Autonomy
We don't tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers lead product teams and make product decisions . Teams are flexible and easy to change when needed.
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Shipping fast
Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams - autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
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Time for building
Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication - PRs > Issues > Slack. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days , and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've ever had.
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Being weird
Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.
Who we're looking for
PostHog is working on a self-driving product and is training its own Deep ML models. To do this, we have a new AI Research team.
We track more products across more dimensions than any other company on Earth. Because of this, we have petabytes of data across events, errors, session replays, revenue data, and more. It's an exceptionally large amount of data relative to our company size, and we want to use it for our users' benefit. Just imagine how, with the vast amount of data we capture, we can automatically surface insights and suggest fixes.
As an AI Research Engineer, you will play a substantial part in making this happen. This team is brand new, so you will have real autonomy, be close to customers, and greatly influence what we actually ship.
On the finance side, we have around $150M on our balance sheet, we're "default alive," and we have a real business that has been scaling rapidly and running exceptionally efficiently with good margins for six years. We invest in what we believe moves the needle.
What you'll be doing
You'll be part of a team that researches what's next and what's better, and actually brings it into production.
Areas we’re exploring
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Session replay analysis
We already detect issues in replays, but doing so is expensive and doesn't scale. With better models (and a huge amount of DOM mutation data), we think we can make this faster, cheaper, and best-in-class.
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User behavior prediction
Identifying drop-offs, suggesting improvements, and potentially improving conversion rates automatically without heavy manual analysis or agent overhead.
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Synthetic user testing
Simulating users to catch confusing flows or breakages before release. If this works, it could remove one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern engineering: testing (rather than writing code).
Job Requirements
- A PhD is a plus, but a strong background in math is a must, or you have previous experience training models (strong math skills are still required).
- Strong PyTorch experience.
- Strong ability to code in Rust, CUDA, or C (with a preference for Rust).
- Solid understanding of Transformers (not the movies).
- A product mindset. you'll be building things!
- This is a unique role within PostHog and, as such, is a hybrid-remote position based out of our London office.
What we’re not looking for
- Pure theoretical expertise: this is not a Jupyter notebook job.
- Someone who just wants to do research and publish. Yes, you can publish, but shipping takes priority.
We are committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know
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Skills
artificial-intelligencerustpytorchgomachine-learningsql
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