Founding Research Engineer

Founding Research Engineer, AI & Defence | Quantitative Research | Applied ML

I'm partnering with a fast-growing defence AI startup to hire a Founding Research Engineer

You'll be building quantitative prediction and agent-learning systems designed to detect and conduct a novel class of AI-powered cyber operation

• PB-scale multimodal time-series data refreshing in under a second
• Building streaming and data-capture infrastructure
• Creating useful representations from noisy, unstructured signals
• Modelling actor behaviour using statistical models, deep learning and transformers
• Training agents against sparse, long-horizon rewards

• Founding-level ownership across research and production
• Revenue-generating company solving national-scale problems
• Backed by Tier 1 seed investors with significant runway
• Work alongside experienced quantitative and cybersecurity specialists
• Opportunity to help shape the technical team as the company scales

• Quantitative researcher, developer or applied ML engineer
• Strong empirical judgement and hands-on coding ability
• Experience with noisy time-series, signal processing or behavioural modelling
• Personally owned models from hypothesis through deployment
• Comfortable with both statistical methods and deep learning
• High-agency and effective in ambiguous environments
• Cybersecurity experience is not required