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There's an ATS, but at CodeWords, referrals get priority. Your cold application competes with sourced candidates and internal recommendations.

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This is the primary confirmed role. CodeWords is building Cody, which has to understand natural-language task descriptions, infer integration requirements, write reliable Python logic, and handle edge cases without user intervention. The AI engineering challenge is the full stack from intent understanding to reliable code generation to deployment. François Chollet (ARC Prize co-founder) is an angel, which is a signal: the ARC Prize exists specifically to push AI beyond pattern matching toward genuine reasoning. Someone who cares about reasoning-capable AI, not just LLM prompting, will find the right intellectual environment here. Core skills: LLM orchestration and agent architecture, Python, reliable code generation systems, evaluation and testing for AI-generated workflows, API integration patterns, tool use and function calling, multi-step planning in agent systems. Proof of work: Build a minimal agent that takes a plain-language automation description from a user (e.g. "every Monday, pull last week's Notion tasks that are marked done, summarise them, and send to Slack"), infers the required integrations and logic, and outputs working Python code with the correct API calls. The interesting engineering problem is handling ambiguity in the user's description and asking the right clarifying question rather than guessing wrong. Publish the code and document the clarification strategy.

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Visionaries VC led this round. They are a pan-European B2B SaaS fund whose portfolio includes companies across developer tools, data infrastructure, and enterprise software. Partner Robert Jäckle's quote is precise and worth noting in full: "Most automation tools promise simplicity, but still require technical thinking underneath. CodeWords is one of the first products we've seen where that truly disappears. What impressed us just as much is the team's speed and conviction: Aymeric and Osman moved from research to a working product in a matter of months. That combination is very rare and hugely exciting." Visionaries pushes portfolio companies hard on go-to-market execution and enterprise sales infrastructure. Their backing here signals the expectation of rapid commercial expansion across the UK and Europe, with first enterprise deals already being signed. Firstminute Capital backed the company at pre-seed and doubled down at seed. That continuity is the strongest internal signal: the investors closest to the company's day-to-day progress put more money in. Firstminute's portfolio includes Wayve (autonomous vehicles, $1B from SoftBank), Paddle, and others across the European deep-tech corridor. The explicit use of capital is go-to-market and engineering expansion. Two live roles are posted on Notion pages. Chrome was unavailable to render them fully, but the role titles are confirmed as AI Engineer and General Application. Live roles: AI Engineer: agemo.notion.site/AI-Engineer-26f2b520705580bb91ebc85a70e9bb3d General Application: agemo.notion.site/General-Application-af5bd631c64b41f29c06dc41931bb603

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