AI Engineer

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks before starting and be eligible for and willing to undergo UK Security Check (SC) clearance; SC clearance normally requires at least five years UK residency
• Have the right to work in the UK
• Have at least two years of industry experience
• Hold a degree-level qualification or above
• Be fluent in C, C++, and Python, with experience using SQL-based databases
• Bring an analytical mindset and the ability to break down complex problems and develop elegant, efficient code
• Write clean, well-commented code that other developers can follow and build on
• Work collaboratively across hardware, physics, and software disciplines
• Desirable: experience with optical sensors, camera optical frame processing, coordinate systems used in computer vision and robotics, or MLOps

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust, real-time embedded software in C and C++ for microelectronics, sensors, and other subsystems
• Implement and optimize communication protocols
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines for machine learning, manage model versioning, and monitor live models for data drift and performance degradation
• Develop generative AI and large language model (LLM) systems, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and fine-tuning
• Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Spark or dbt, ensuring data is high quality, time-stamped, and ready for training and real-time inference
• Design and deploy data collection systems for remote environments, as well as load-balanced staging and production IoT data services
• Maintain and correct records in SQL-based databases
• Run unit, integration, hardware-in-the-loop (HiL), and structured protocol testing to make live deployments fault-tolerant, reliable, and long-lasting
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from initial design to efficient, working code
• Align technical solutions with market research and customer requirements

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Computer Vision
• ETL
• Embedded
• Fine-tuning
• Hardware
• IoT
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• Python
• RAG
• Robotics
• SQL
• Security
• Spark
• dbt
• C++
• MLOps

More:

We are hiring an AI Engineer to build the embedded software, data pipelines, and machine learning systems behind our sensing and communications technology, taking ideas from initial design through to tested code in live deployments. Our technology is used by the MOD, ESA, and NATO partners. We offer a modern office with R&D labs and the opportunity to influence products at an early stage in our growth.

last updated 42 week of 2026