Senior Computer Vision Algorithms Engineer (Hybrid)

Chess Dynamics; Wokingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension plan

Income protection

Employee Assistance Programme

Life assurance

Share incentive plan

EV salary sacrifice

Wellbeing app

Sports and social activities

Gym membership discounts

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Chess Dynamics seeks an innovative algorithms engineer to develop next‑generation intelligent sensing and computer vision capabilities for defence applications. You will solve real‑world perception problems by combining ML, CV, signal processing and statistics to detect, classify, track and understand objects in challenging environments.

You will take technical ownership of key capability areas, mentor others and share expertise across the engineering team while shaping future development

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, AI, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics.
• Experience deploying ML/vision algorithms in production or near-production.
• Experience with modern CV architectures (detection, classification, transformers).
• Ability to analyse image datasets and inform model development.
• Strong problem-solving and ownership from investigation to delivery.
• Excellent communication; can explain complex concepts clearly.
• Able to evaluate technical trade-offs and choose approaches.
• Strong Python skills; production/C++ for performance-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop and evaluate CV algorithms for image classification and detection.
• Investigate hard problems with structured experiments and evidence-based methods.
• Design datasets, evaluation methodologies, and automated ML pipelines.
• Analyse model performance and drive improvements in real-world capability.
• Develop tools to improve automation, repeatability, and ML lifecycle efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor other engineers in CV/ML.
• Stay current with CV/AI advances and identify applicable tech.
• Communicate results and recommendations clearly to teams and customers.
• Support integration, testing and deployment of algorithms in real-time video systems.
• Produce technical documentation and presentations for engineering decisions.

Skills

Python

C++

Computer vision

ML in production

Image processing

Data analysis

Problem solving

Ownership

Communication

Bayesian inference

Synthetic data

Multi-modal nets

CI/CD pipelines

CMake

Dataset management

Experiment tracking

Education

Degree in CS/AI/Engineering/Math/Physics

Tools

CMake

Job description

Chess Dynamics seeks an innovative algorithms engineer to develop next‑generation intelligent sensing and computer vision capabilities for defence applications. You will solve real‑world perception problems by combining ML, CV, signal processing and statistics to detect, classify, track and understand objects in challenging environments.

You will take technical ownership of key capability areas, mentor others and share expertise across the engineering team while shaping future development