AI Engineer

Board Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm on a mission to make boards more effective, and through them, build better businesses and benefit society.

Over twenty years we have established ourselves as the market leader in governance and board effectiveness, trusted by more than 80,000 directors, executives, and governance professionals globally, including across the Fortune 500, FTSE 100, and OMX 30. That trust has been earned through depth of insight, rigorous advisory work, and a track record that newer entrants simply cannot replicate.

We have invested in applied AI since 2020, well ahead of the market, and that early conviction has paid off. Our AI-powered platform and smart board advisor give us a competitive advantage that is widening, not narrowing. In 2024, K1 Investment Management, the leading B2B Enterprise SaaS investor, backed us to accelerate that position further. We are now growing fast, with a proven commercial model spanning both mid-market and enterprise, and a product suite that has become a necessary addition in high-stakes board environments.

The people joining us now will shape how we scale. We are deliberate about how we do that. Our founders and leadership team are deeply invested in keeping the culture that got us here: thoughtful, high calibre, and genuinely human. Ambition and balance are not in competition at Board Intelligence.

If you want to work at the intersection of AI and governance, on problems that matter at the highest level, this is a strong place to be.

Our Mission We unleash the potential of organisations through the science of board effectiveness, building better businesses and benefitting society. 

The Role

Juristic is a Danish legal tech company, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Copenhagen. Our platform brings four tools together on the same case data: Structure, Timeline, Flow and JuristIQ, our legal AI in chat and tabular formats.   Clients include PwC, Bird & Bird and Bech-Bruun. Juristic is now part of Board Intelligence, and we are bringing a new product to market. The work is led by our CTO, and we are looking for an AI Engineer to build it with them from the first line of code.   This is a zero-to-one role in a small team of four full-stack developers, a machine learning engineer and the CTO. You will write the code, sit in front of customers, and help decide what we build next. 

Main Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship the AI capabilities at the core of a new product, from first prototype to production 
• Own LLM-powered workflows end to end, such as document understanding, data extraction and agentic assistants 
• Choose and integrate models and providers, and own the prompting, retrieval, evaluation and guardrails that make AI output reliable enough for legal and governance work 
• Work directly with customers and the CTO to turn real problems into product decisions, and help own the product roadmap 
• Lay the engineering foundations for the new product, including architecture, testing, observability and deployment, so it can scale 
• Work with the wider Juristic and Board Intelligence engineering teams, and contribute to AI tooling shared across the suite 

Person Specification

We are looking for a builder: an experienced AI engineer who has been a technical founder or an early employee at a startup, and who is ready to do it again.   Required Skills and Experience:  

At least four years of professional software engineering experience 

Experience as a technical founder or early employee at a startup, having built a product from the first line of code

A track record of building and shipping AI or LLM-powered products to real users

Practical experience with LLM APIs, prompt design, retrieval and evaluating model output in production

Strong engineering fundamentals across backend and frontend, with the judgement to move fast without leaving a mess behind

A strong product mindset: you have worked directly with customers and owned a product roadmap

Hungry, motivated and ready for another zero-to-one journey

Fluent written and spoken English 

Nice to haves:   Experience with our stack: TypeScript (Node.js and React) and Python Experience with document processing, such as PDF parsing and extraction from unstructured text Experience building agentic systems, tool use or MCP integrations Experience with search and retrieval infrastructure, such as Elasticsearch or vector databases A background in legal tech, governance or B2B SaaS for professional users   What good looks like in this role:  

After three months: you know our customers, the product vision and the codebase, and you have shipped AI features that real users rely on

After six months: the core AI capabilities of the new product are in production, backed by evaluations that show they are reliable, and you are acting on customer feedback

After twelve months: the product is in market with paying customers, you are a trusted voice on the roadmap, and the AI foundations you built are reused across the Juristic and Board Intelligence suite 

How We Work

We hire people who are expert at what they do. Once you join, you have the autonomy to shape how you work and the space to do it well. That doesn’t mean working in isolation. You’ll have colleagues who know their craft, regular collaboration across functions, and easy access to senior leadership when you need it.

We keep our structure flat. We work at pace in an agile, nimble environment where good ideas don’t wait for permission. If you spot something that could work better, we encourage you to say so. If you want to run with an idea, we’ll back you to do it.

We work with people who take pride in their output, back their team through the hard parts, and leave things better than they found them.

What Happens Next

Once you apply, our Talent team will review your application. If there’s a fit, they’ll be in touch to discuss the role and next steps.

How We Use AI in Our Hiring

We use AI responsibly, both in the software we build for governance teams and in how we hire. Our Talent team may use AI to support application review, CV analysis, or identifying areas that need further verification.

But hiring decisions are made by people. AI surfaces signals; people make the call on whether to progress a candidate or extend an offer.

If you’d like details on how your data is handled during recruitment, contact our Talent team.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re building a team that works because it reflects a breadth of experience, background, and perspective.

Apply even if you don’t tick every box on the job specification. If the role excites you and you think you could make an impact, we want to hear from you.

We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of recruitment, or if there’s anything else we can do to make the process more accessible, tell our Talent team. We’ll sort it.

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