--- title: 'AI Engineer - Remote Europe at Reedsy' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-engineer-remote-europe-reedsy-united-kingdom-s8stt02j37f2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # AI Engineer - Remote Europe at Reedsy - **Company:** Reedsy - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Compensation:** €70k–€120k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-11-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reedsy/b043b550-02b7-416f-8969-5db8fd9dc8ee ## Job description ## About Reedsy We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer. We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading! ## Responsibilities At Reedsy, our goal is to build the best ecosystem for writers, supporting them at every stage of their creative journey. Over the years, we've developed a suite of products, including a marketplace, book discovery platform, writing app, central authentication system, and email marketing tools. As a publishing startup, we're thoughtful about how we integrate AI. As an AI Engineer, you'll help us empower authors to do more — enhancing creativity, not replacing it. You’ll focus on building intelligent features that support storytelling and streamline workflows. In this role, you will: - Design and implement AI-powered tools for authors (e.g. a narrative co-pilot, visual storyboarding assistant, etc.); - Improve internal workflows by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing UX across our products; - Build internal tools for AI development, including evaluation benchmarks and automated testing; - Collaborate closely with engineers and operations teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities. ## Requirements - Proven experience integrating AI/ML into real-world products, with ownership of the full lifecycle — from modeling and evaluation to deployment and go-to-market execution. - Experience working with large language models (e.g., prompt engineering, fine-tuning, model selection, retrieval-augmented generation) - Familiarity with orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom chaining frameworks) - Knowledge of hallucination detection and mitigation strategies - Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (preferably Google Cloud Platform) and scalable AI deployment - Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases, and Elasticsearch - Experience with AI developer tooling (e.g., Cursor, intelligent CI/CD, AI-powered QA) Bonus Points - Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds. - A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor ## Benefits - Work from home - Paid paternal and maternal leave - Annual team retreat Salary range: 70k-120k EUR - 0-0.2% equity ## About Reedsy ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Reedsy operates an online marketplace and suite of software tools connecting authors with freelance publishing professionals for editing, design, marketing, ghostwriting, and translation services. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped / Grant-funded; last known funding was a $1.2M grant in 2016) - **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Ricardo Fayet, Matt Herron, Vincent Durand ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Book and Periodical Publishing / Marketplace for Professional Services - **Target customers**: B2C (primarily self-publishing and indie authors), B2B (publishers and publishing professionals seeking project work) - **Mission or purpose**: To give authors the tools and community they need to write, publish, and market high-quality books, while creating economic opportunities for the world’s best publishing professionals. ## Products & Services - **[Reedsy Marketplace](https://reedsy.com/)**: A curated platform where authors can browse profiles, request quotes, and hire vetted freelance editors, designers, marketers, ghostwriters, translators, and web designers. Only the top ~1% of applicants are accepted as professionals. - **[Reedsy Book Editor](https://reedsy.com/write)** (free tool): A browser-based writing and editing app designed for book-length manuscripts. - **[Reedsy Learning](https://blog.reedsy.com/learning/)**: Free, high-quality online courses and webinars for authors covering craft, publishing, and marketing topics. - **[Reedsy Discovery](https://reedsy.com/discovery)**: A review platform that connects indie authors with early readers and book reviewers. - **[Reedsy Prompts](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/)**: A community writing prompt tool and short story competition hub. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company; no known recent funding round setting a valuation; last funding was a $1.2M grant in 2016) - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated in the range of $5M–$25M (per LinkedIn company data); community of over **5 million authors** and publishing professionals. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Horizon 2020 (EU grant), DN Capital, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures, and Benjamin Yoskovitz. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **14.9% YoY** to **371 employees** (per LinkedIn, as of mid-2025). - Operates in **33 countries**, with major hubs in the US (40% of staff), UK (13%), Canada, Spain, and Portugal. - LinkedIn followers exceed **96,000**, up ~6.8% year-over-year. - Revenue range of $5M–$25M for a fully remote, relatively lean lean marketplace places them in a healthy, profitable-looking growth stage for a private company. ## Competitive Advantages - **Curated, high-quality talent pool**: Accepts only ~1% of freelance applicants, ensuring a high bar for quality comparable to top publishing houses. - **Full tool ecosystem**: Unlike simple directories, Reedsy provides proprietary tools (writing, collaboration, file sharing, payments, project protection) that keep authors and professionals inside the platform. - **Strong brand and community trust**: With millions of authors and thousands of professionals, the marketplace has significant network effects, making it harder for new entrants to compete. - **Remote-native culture**: Fully distributed from the start, with a deep understanding of how to build and scale remote creative teams. ## Strategic Focus - **Expanding the marketplace** to new professional categories (e.g., ghostwriting, marketing) and to more international markets (33+ countries). - **Deepening author education** via Reedsy Learning courses and Discovery reviews to fuel author self-sufficiency and community engagement. - **Refining AI/automation** tools to assist authors while protecting the value of human professionals (the company is cautious about full automation in favor of human creative quality). ## Why Work Here - **Full remote forever**: Reedsy is a fully distributed company with a team of around 50 core employees (plus a global network of freelancers). Team members work from 15+ countries. - **Flexible lifestyle**: Co-founders have publicly embraced location-independent work (e.g., co-founder Matt spending months living and working from the Alps). - **Diverse, global team**: Recruits talent from top publishers (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan) and freelancers globally. - **High employee satisfaction**: Employer rating of **4.1/5** on LinkedIn across categories including Work-Life (4.1), Culture (4.0), Career Opportunities (4.2), and Compensation (3.9). - **Flat, autonomous culture**: Small core team allows for significant ownership and impact. Roles span design, editorial, marketing, customer experience, and engineering. ## Sources 1. [Reedsy.com](https://reedsy.com/) 2. [LinkedIn - Reedsy Company Page](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/reedsy) 3. [CB Insights - Reedsy Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/reedsy) 4. [Reedsy Careers on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reedsy) 5. [Reedsy Careers on Workable](https://apply.workable.com/reedsy/?lng=en) 6. 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