AI Startups Hiring in Europe (€100k+ Engineering Jobs)

Want to join an AI company while it is still small enough for your work to matter? These are the AI labs and AI-native startups on the board that are young and independent: small teams, fast decisions, often equity. Every open role pays €100k+ and comes straight from the company's own career page, refreshed daily.

Right now 18 companies among the AI startups have 245 open roles in Europe, most at Lovable, Helsing and Cohere.

By Felix · roles refreshed daily from company career pages

19 AI startups we track

1. 

   01Lovable

   30 open roles

   Lovable is the Stockholm-based AI app builder that turns a prompt into a working full-stack application, and one of the fastest-growing startups Europe has produced. Engineering sits in Stockholm with a growing London office, working on the agent runtime, platform infrastructure and security. Senior engineers in Stockholm earn around SEK 1.68M (roughly €151K), with a median of SEK 1.37M.

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2. 

   02Helsing

   25 open roles

   Helsing is Europe's best-funded defence-AI company, building AI software, strike drones and electronic-warfare systems out of Munich, with engineering teams in Berlin, London, Paris and Barcelona. They hire AI research engineers, backend, frontend and embedded software engineers, and electronics and systems engineers. Senior engineers earn a median of around €152K total comp in Munich (€176K at L3) and around £122K in London.

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3. 

   03Cohere

   24 open roles

   Cohere builds enterprise-focused large language models (Command, Embed, Rerank) and the North agent platform, with a strong focus on private and sovereign deployments. The European engineering and research teams are in London and Paris, with further roles in Berlin, Munich and Edinburgh and many postings open across Europe. London engineers earn a median of £176K, with L3 packages around £236K.

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4. 

   04Anthropic

   23 open roles

   Anthropic is an AI safety company building Claude, one of the most capable large language models. They have engineering teams in London, Dublin, and Zurich working on core model development, infrastructure, and safety research. One of the highest-paying companies in AI.

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5. 

   05Mistral AI

   22 open roles

   Mistral AI is a Paris-based AI company building frontier large language models. Founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, they're one of Europe's most important AI companies. If you want to work on cutting-edge AI research and infrastructure in Europe, Mistral is the one to watch.

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6. 

   06Applied Intuition

   20 open roles

   Applied Intuition builds the simulation, validation and vehicle software stack that car makers, truck OEMs and defence programmes use to develop autonomous and software-defined vehicles. Its European engineering teams in Munich, Stuttgart and London work on cloud infrastructure, the vehicle OS, perception and machine learning software.

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7. 

   07ElevenLabs

   16 open roles

   ElevenLabs builds AI voice and audio models—text-to-speech, dubbing and conversational agents—and is one of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies. Engineering and research teams are spread across London, Warsaw, Sofia and Berlin, plus remote roles across Europe. London engineers earn a median of £190K (packages start around £100K), and Poland-based research engineers start around PLN 950K.

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8. 

   08Synthesia

   13 open roles

   Synthesia is the London-based AI video platform (avatars, dubbing, generative video) and one of the UK's biggest AI scale-ups. Engineering and research sit in London, with several roles open to anyone in Europe or remote in the UK.

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9. 

   09Sierra

   11 open roles

   Sierra builds conversational AI agents for customer service at large consumer brands, co-founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. Its European engineering teams sit in London, Paris, Madrid and Munich, building and deploying agents for enterprise customers. Posted ranges are exceptional: London software engineers at £150–315K, Paris €125–265K and Madrid €170–245K.

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10. 

    10Apollo Research

    10 open roles

    Apollo Research is an AI safety organisation that evaluates frontier models for deceptive and scheming behaviour and advises labs and governments on AI control. It is based in London (with a San Francisco office), where its engineers build evaluation infrastructure, red-teaming tooling and security systems.

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11. 

    11Black Forest Labs

    9 open roles

    Black Forest Labs is the Freiburg-based team behind the FLUX image and video generation models. Research and engineering are in Freiburg, with roles also open in Berlin, Munich, London, Amsterdam, and Paris. Posted EU base salary bands are €130–340K for research and member-of-technical-staff roles and €140–190K for product and developer-experience engineers.

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12. 

    12Granola

    9 open roles

    Granola is an AI notepad for meetings that transcribes calls and turns rough notes into structured summaries. The company is based in London, where its small engineering team builds the desktop and mobile apps, the transcription pipeline and the AI features.

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13. 

    13OpenAI

    7 open roles

    OpenAI builds ChatGPT and the models behind it. Its European engineering is concentrated in London, Dublin and Munich, working on the same ChatGPT and platform infrastructure as the San Francisco teams rather than on a regional sideline. Pay for the London roles is published on the posting and is among the highest on this board.

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14. 

    14Isomorphic Labs

    7 open roles

    Isomorphic Labs is Alphabet's AI drug-discovery company, spun out of DeepMind and headquartered in London with a second office in Lausanne. They hire research scientists, ML research engineers and software and data platform engineers to build on AlphaFold-class models. Senior engineers in London earn a median of around £238K total comp, among the highest in Europe.

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15. 

    15xAI

    7 open roles

    xAI is the AI company behind the Grok models and apps, training them on one of the largest GPU clusters in the world. Its London engineering team works on backend APIs, mobile apps, sandboxing infrastructure and X Money.

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16. 

    16Scale AI

    6 open roles

    Scale AI provides the data and evaluation infrastructure behind frontier AI models, plus generative-AI applications for enterprises and governments. Their London office hires platform, infrastructure, ML and forward-deployed engineers. Senior engineers in London earn a median of around £161K total comp (£218K at L4).

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17. 

    17Modal

    4 open roles

    Modal is a serverless cloud platform for running AI and data workloads, built by a small team of systems engineers. Alongside New York and San Francisco they have an engineering office in Stockholm and hire in London. Stockholm Member of Technical Staff roles are posted at $140–200K plus equity.

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18. 

    18Poolside

    2 open roles

    Poolside is building foundation models for software engineering, with a remote-first team spread across EMEA and a London hub. Roles cover inference infrastructure, agent sandboxes, evaluations, and pre-/post-training research.

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19. 

    19Wayve

    Wayve is a London-based autonomous-driving company training end-to-end AI driving models, with a growing engineering presence in Germany. The London team hires ML engineers, robotics and embedded software engineers, SREs and simulation and validation engineers. Senior engineers in London earn a median of around £130K total comp, rising to £174K at TC4.

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