Founding Principal Engineer
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About the Role
WYLE in Dubai seeks a Founding Principal Engineer to build an AI personal operating system. The role involves owning either Agent Systems (multi-agent orchestration, security) or Intelligence Systems (graph-native memory, on-device AI).
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Responsibilities
- Own end to end development of Agent Systems or Intelligence Systems for the AI personal operating system.
- Build and deploy multi agent orchestration and security architecture for safe real world action.
- Develop graph native memory and AI runtime, including on device models, quantization, and low latency inference.
- Work directly with the founder and own a critical domain with no layers between decisions.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in either Agent Systems (multi agent orchestration, security architecture) or Intelligence Systems (graph native memory, AI runtime, on device models)
- Proven track record of building autonomous agents in production or building knowledge graph/graph memory systems
- Experience working inside a startup as a senior owner
- Willingness to relocate to Dubai (visa provided)
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Role Overview
- At WYLE, we are building an AI that runs the parts of your life you should not have to think about, so you get your time and attention back.
- Not another app. A Personal Operating System for people whose lives are too full to manage by hand.
- The reason this role exists: that product has to act reliably in one real person's life, over years. Not in a demo. In the actual mess of a real day. That is a hard engineering problem before it is anything else, and it is the one you would own.
You would own one of two domains, end to end:
- Agent Systems: Multi agent orchestration and the security architecture that lets an agent act in the real world safely. You have built autonomous agents that execute in production, and you treat credential isolation and prompt injection defense as first order problems, not afterthoughts.
- Intelligence Systems: The graph native memory and the AI runtime. You have built knowledge graph or graph memory systems, and you are genuinely comfortable at the inference layer: on device models, quantization, low latency on real hardware.
How we work
- Engineering is horizontal on purpose. You work directly with the founder, and everyone on the team is a senior owner of something real, with no layers between them and the decisions.
- This is for someone who has built inside a startup before, who knows what the speed, the ambiguity, and the uncertainty actually feel like, and who wants that again as an owner rather than an employee.
- If you are currently a Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, Head of AI, Principal or a Staff Engineer and what you actually miss is getting your hands back on the keyboard and owning something you build, this is for you. If what you want is another management seat, this is not.
The honest part
- This is a founding role and it is equity led. You come in with meaningful ownership from the start, and we are direct about the full compensation structure early in the conversation, not after you have invested your time.
- If you want a salary first role with a large team around you, this is not that, and that is completely fair.
- Dubai based, or ready to relocate quickly. We provide the visa and support the move.
To apply
- Tell us which of the two domains is yours, and point us at something you have built that proves it. Code, a system you shipped, an open source project, a paper with a real implementation behind it.
- Reach out directly at ceo@wyle.ai to start the conversation with WYLE.
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