AI Engineer

Were putting together a talented team to build the #1 training platform for Runners

We help everyday runners become outstanding by building an incredible app providing world-class training coaching and community for everyone whether youre improving your 5k time or training for your first marathon.

Were growing extremely fast! In November 2023 we closed a $6.5M funding round led by JamJar with participation from Eka Ventures Venrex and Creator 2024 we were selected by Apple as one of three global finalists for the2024 iPhone App of the Year reflecting the innovation and impact of what weve built & now in 2025 we have ****just been acquired by Strava!

Our ambition is huge: to become the go-to global leading training platform for millions of runners everywhere. Were growing with purpose and looking for people who want to build something meaningful with lasting impact. With the recent acquisition by Strava accelerating our journey now is a really magical time to join

The Team Youll Join

As a cross functional (engineering product design coaching) team of >20 the Train Team work at the heart of Runnas mission: delivering the best training possible to hundreds of thousands of runners worldwide. From creating and dynamically adjusting optimal personalised training plans at scale to analysing performance data to make training adjustment recommendations to providing insight to users derived from their training and environment - we do it all.

What Youll Be Doing

Youll be building AI-powered features that leverage large language models to transform the running experience for users around the world. As part of this work youll be working closely with the engineering product and coaching teams to build components that use LLMs to interpret generate and personalise training insights - whether through conversational interfaces knowledge-based reasoning or dynamic content generation. Youll be part of the Train team here and well all support you along this exciting journey!

As an AI Engineer your role will include

• Building testing and delivering new AI-driven features that use LLMs to enhance our personalised training experience including conversational coaching dynamic feedback and content generation for hundreds of thousands of active users
• Working across the full stack of applied LLM engineering - from prompt design and model evaluation to orchestration deployment and iteration
• Keeping up to date with developments in the AI space frontier models new releases and entrants etc and ensuring we (the whole of engineering) are best utilising the latest approaches models and strategies
• Designing and refining prompt strategies and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to ensure grounded accurate and context-aware outputs
• Collaborating with coaches to help translate deep training knowledge into scalable intelligent systems powered by AI
• Applying a data-driven and experimental approach to model development evaluation and continuous improvement of LLM-based features - such as designing and implementing robust evaluation frameworks to measure LLM output quality factuality usefulness and safety - both via automation and human feedback
• Experimenting (e.g. A/B tests in production) in order to ensure high quality outcomes
• Writing clean well-tested Python code and contributing to the backend systems that support model orchestration inference and integration into user-facing features

What Youll Bring To The Team

We encourage applications from individuals with a range of experiences and backgrounds. Even if you dont meet every qualification listed wed love to hear from you and are open to tailoring roles to fit the right candidates. Please apply directly below or contact us for more information and to discuss your fit!

• Designing and building AI powered systems - you have solid experience working with LLMs in production
• Testing your code to ensure high quality solutions that are maintainable and scalable
• Analytical and detail-oriented with a commitment to producing high-quality work
• A pragmatic mindset with excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Proficiency in Python (object orientated) programming with experience writing production quality code
• Enthusiasm for our ways of working which include
• Working within a highly-skilled engineering team in a fast-paced iterative environment
• Iterative development continuous deployment and test automation
• Knowledge sharing pair programming collaborative design & development
• Shared code ownership & cross-functional teams

Bonus Points If You Have

• An understanding of deployment release cycles or CI/CD
• Exposure to delivering features end-to-end from architecture design and building through to releasing testing and supporting
• Experience with serverless and event driven architectures
• Cloud experience ideally AWS
• A strong interest in the health/fitness technologies
• Some typescript experience

Salary and Benefits

Were offering a salary of 60k-80k per year depending on experience plus participation in Stravas long-term incentive (stock) programs. Overview of our benefits is below:

Were also committed to continually evolving our benefits to support you as we grow. Here is a brief overview what we currently offer in the UK

• Flexible working we typically spend 3 days a week together in our Vauxhall office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (which you can take whenever suits you)
• Runna subscriptions for you and 5 of your friends(get ready to be your friends fave person or save them for xmas presents!)
• Strava membership!
• Headspace membership
• Money every year to spend on gear events and the gym!
• Well give you avoucherto spend on our website so you can buy yourself new Runna kit (and will renew this every year on your work anniversary)
• Private health insurancewith Bupa and workplacepensionscheme
• Modern Healthis a mental wellness platform and app that combines technology with professional support to improve mental well-being and reduce stress
• Carrot fertility support- this benefits provider can provide inclusive fertility hormonal health and family-forming benefits to our global employee population and takes the burden off what we know can be a stressful process.

Please see more info on our amazing benefits here:Benefits at Runna

Our Interview Process:

Our aim is to keep the interview process as straightforward and enjoyable as possible and will consist of the following stages:

1. Introductory chat(45 minute video call - intros; chat about experience; live coding)
2. Take Home Technical Task(1-2 hours to complete)
3. Technical interview(75 minutes - the first half of the call will be used to discuss the take-home technical task from the previous stage and the second half will be some general architecture/tech questions)
4. Meet the team and in-person chat(in-person chat with different people in the team and some technical discussion)

Please let us know if theres anything we can do to better accommodate you throughout the interview process - this can be from scheduling interviews around childcare commitments to accessibility requirements. We want you to show your best self in the process so please speak to your Talent Partner!

How to Apply:

Please apply through this link (this will take you to our Workable career hub). Please note we are unable to accept any applications outside of Workable. If you have any questions regarding the status of your application please email

Still have questions or want to know more Check out ourCareers Page

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