Staff AI Research Engineer - ML Engineering

Highlights

• Architect platforms powering autonomous decision-making for defence.
• Scale distributed training for RL agents and foundation models.
• Design large-scale data strategies to keep GPUs fully utilized.

What they offer

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• €500/£450 yearly learning allowance
• Gym membership and mental health support via Nilo.health
• Regular company events and monthly social allowances
• Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks for primary and 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• 5 days paid family emergency leave and hands-on AI-duction onboarding

Ideal candidate

Mission-driven ML systems thinker with first-principles mindset who loves debugging complex pipelines and turning theory into robust platforms to protect democracies.

Requirements

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science or STEM field with focus on Machine Learning and Deep Learning
• Strong software engineering in Python and modern DL frameworks, writing custom layers, loss functions and distributed training loops
• Clear communicator who builds from complex theory and contributes to engineering culture
• First-principles mindset, rapidly integrating AI optimisation advances and debugging production ML pipelines