Multimodal Vision Research Scientist

IC Resources; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IC Resources in London is seeking a Research Scientist – Computer Vision to contribute to pioneering multimodal AI research and real-world product applications. You will design ViT architectures and scale training for large multimodal models, working with an international team on state-of-the-art models spanning vision, language, and multimodal tasks.

Ideal candidates have a PhD or equivalent in a technical field, strong Python and PyTorch experience, and a proactive research mindset.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong Python programming skills with hands-on experience using PyTorch and modern deep learning frameworks.
• Excellent algorithmic thinking, mathematical reasoning, and problem-solving ability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach and enthusiasm for tackling challenging research problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Vision Transformer (ViT) and multimodal model architectures with enhanced reasoning, efficiency, and scalability.
• Advance research in multimodal representation learning, alignment techniques, and long-context modelling.
• Investigate scalable training approaches for large multimodal foundation models.
• Improve model performance, robustness, and generalisation across diverse tasks.
• Process and curate large-scale multimodal datasets comprising images, video, audio, and text.
• Build robust pipelines for data cleaning, filtering, annotation, and quality assurance.
• Maintain reproducible datasets through effective versioning and documentation.
• Optimise data sampling strategies and improve dataset quality through iterative evaluation and feedback.
• Develop distributed training systems for large-scale multimodal models.
• Optimise GPU utilisation, resource scheduling, and training efficiency.
• Contribute to training and inference frameworks that support scalable model development.
• Improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of AI infrastructure.
• Apply advanced multimodal AI capabilities to intelligent products and user-facing applications.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to bring research innovations into production.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and deployment of cutting-edge AI technologies.

Skills

Python programming

Deep learning

Algorithmic thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Mathematics / Statistics / AI

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

IC Resources in London is seeking a Research Scientist – Computer Vision to contribute to pioneering multimodal AI research and real-world product applications. You will design ViT architectures and scale training for large multimodal models, working with an international team on state-of-the-art models spanning vision, language, and multimodal tasks.

Ideal candidates have a PhD or equivalent in a technical field, strong Python and PyTorch experience, and a proactive research mindset.