Senior AI Model Engineer, Geospatial & Multimodal

NestAI; Jyväskylä; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational healthcare

Epassi Flex benefit

Lunch benefit

Regular team lunches and all-hands

Mac or PC choice

Holiday allowance

Phone benefit

Job summary

NestAI seeks a senior Model Engineer to join a European defence AI initiative. You will build models for battlefield autonomy and orchestration, training and evaluating multimodal systems, and shaping data-driven evaluation baselines.

You’ll operate in a still-forming environment, with evolving tooling and data, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust, adaptable AI for critical decision-making under sovereign constraints.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating ML models, including multimodal or large-scale work.
• Ability to assess trade-offs between single-task vs large models in production.
• Interest in geospatial/spatial reasoning and simulation challenges.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on model prototypes across tracks from proof-of-life to benchmarking against a real baseline.
• Work hands-on with multimodal and geospatial reasoning problems and represent maps/terrain for model reasoning.
• Help stand up early evaluation harnesses and benchmarks with measurable progress against a real baseline.
• Coordinate with data owners for data availability and required buildouts; contribute technical judgment and fail-fast when needed.

Skills

ML model training

Fine-tuning models

Multimodal models

Geospatial reasoning

Education

PhD in quantitative field

Job description

NestAI seeks a senior Model Engineer to join a European defence AI initiative. You will build models for battlefield autonomy and orchestration, training and evaluating multimodal systems, and shaping data-driven evaluation baselines.

You’ll operate in a still-forming environment, with evolving tooling and data, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust, adaptable AI for critical decision-making under sovereign constraints.