Founding AI Research Scientist – Lead LLMs & Frontier AI

Blue Wolf Digital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Wolf Digital is seeking a Founding AI Research Scientist in London with a hybrid work mode. You will lead the design, training, and refinement of cutting-edge LLMs and deep-learning models, building a scalable research stack alongside the founder.

The role emphasizes ownership, ambitious research goals, and the ability to drive the full model lifecycle from data to deployment in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.

Qualifications

• Experience fine-tuning or pretraining LLMs and deep-learning models.
• Fluency in PyTorch and end-to-end training experience (data → deployment).
• Strong research ambition and willingness to take ownership in ambiguous environments.
• Founder mindset: ownership, pace, discretion in demanding work.
• Eligibility for UK security clearance is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, train and fine-tune custom deep-learning models and proprietary LLMs.
• Own a detection and analysis pipeline end-to-end, from raw signal to client-ready insight.
• Push matching and extraction beyond similarity search to precision you engineer, on models you train.
• Turn proprietary data into models that beat commercial baselines.
• Set research strategy directly with the founder, then hire and lead the research team.

Skills

LLMs

Deep learning

Fine-tuning

Pretraining

End-to-end training

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Blue Wolf Digital is seeking a Founding AI Research Scientist in London with a hybrid work mode. You will lead the design, training, and refinement of cutting-edge LLMs and deep-learning models, building a scalable research stack alongside the founder.

The role emphasizes ownership, ambitious research goals, and the ability to drive the full model lifecycle from data to deployment in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.