PostHog

AI Research Engineer

Remote PostHog AI role with clear candidate location fit.

PostedJul 7, 2026

Eligible countries1 accepted country

Seniority signalOpen level

Work settingRemote

Accepted candidate locations

United Kingdom

SQL

Role overview

AI Research Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

Readable role content extracted into sections for faster review.

About PostHog

PostHog Code, the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase.
A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
PostHog AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Things we care about

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.
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.
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.
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.
Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly believe that aiming for the best possible upside, and sometimes missing, is better than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
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.

What you'll be doing

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.
User behavior prediction: Identifying drop-offs, suggesting improvements, and potentially improving conversion rates automatically without heavy manual analysis or agent overhead.
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.

Similar roles