Founder's Associate

Founder's Associate LocationLondonEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentOffice of the CEOAbout DelfaBillions of people still suffer from every-day diseases.One key reason? Clinical trials are broken.Despite $120 billion spent each year, most trials are delayed due to bottlenecks like patient recruitment.Delfa is fixing this with autonomous AI agents. We're building AI agents to automate clinical trials.In less than a year from launch we’ve already:Deployed onto 300+ trials across multiple conditionsReached seven figures in ARR, growing 25% MoMRaised an oversubscribed $3.8m seed from tier-one AI investorsOverviewDelfa is at a critical inflection: we have a proven offering which is on track to support the recruitment of thousands of participants into trials in 2026, while simultaneously expanding our offerings with new products for biopharmaceutical companies.You'll work directly with our CEO across the whole business. You will sit at the intersection of AI agent design, quality assurance, and customer delivery. You'll use AI tools extensively, but your judgment, attention to detail, and ability to spot issues will be what makes the work exceptional.What You'll DoDesign and deliver AI agents for our customersSupport pre-release testing of agents before they go live with patientsSample real calls and patient interactions to identify issues, test fixes, and add recurring items to the monitoring list to inform future automated QAWork closely with product, engineering, and our medical team to ensure agents are safe, accurate, and operationally usefulBuild and document the operational playbooks that let us scaleRun discrete strategic projects across the business where an extra pair of capable hands moves the needleThe mix will shift over time. The bottleneck today won't be the bottleneck in six months, so you'll be someone who can pick up whatever matters most and run with it.You'll Be A Great Fit If...You're a driven generalist, early in your career. You're probably a couple of years into a top consultancy, startup, or other high-performing environment, and you're looking to get your hands dirty building from the ground up.You get things done. You're hungry, bought into the mission, and biased toward action. When you notice something broken, you fix it.You're coachable. You take feedback well, adapt quickly, and improve the process as you go. You can move fast without being careless.You have real attention to detail. You're comfortable reviewing dense clinical or operational documents and can spot when something is missing, unclear, or inconsistent.You care about quality. Our agents interact with real patients and support real clinical trials, so accuracy matters. You take pride in work that is careful, clear, and reliable.You're comfortable using AI tools. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be excited to use prompts, structured workflows, and internal tools to produce high-quality work faster.You communicate clearly. You can explain complex clinical or operational logic in simple, structured language that customers, internal teams, and AI agents can all understand.Life at DelfaDelfa is building a generational company to transform the way medications reach millions of patients in need.This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and work alongside the highest talent density team in the space, onsite at our London office 5 days a week:A wine-snob who built foundation models at Roche at ETH ZurichA former hedge fund trader with world class causal AI knowledgeA medical doctor turned AI engineer who builds prototypes on the weekend for funA ginger bloke who deployed production AI for J&J, Medtronic, and Exscientia What We OfferCompetitive salary + meaningful equityPrivate health insurance and gym membership25 days’ holiday + UK public holidaysModern office space 5 mins from Old Street stationTrue 0 → 1 ownership. You’ll take full responsibility for the growth of our offering to get new treatments...