Spatial AI Research Engineer — Frontier ML & Geospatial

Hyades; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyades is a Spatial AI research lab building the foundational intelligence layer for spatial data and machine learning. We develop end-to-end intelligence and MLOps tooling to deploy models across geospatial workflows for enterprise teams.

We are seeking a Research Engineer who can translate frontier ML research into production software, combining deep mathematical thinking with practical engineering to advance spatial data understanding.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent personal project experience.
• Strong mathematical foundation: understand key mathematical concepts that shape assumptions in machine learning and wider implementation systems.
• Familiarity with information theory and measure theory as tools for thinking about model learning and generalisation.
• Experience with foundation model pre-training and fine-tuning, in the geospatial domain.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement rigorous training regimens that ground model behaviour in well-defined hypotheses.
• Monitor and evaluate automated agent-driven experimentation pipelines, validating outcomes against expected behavior.
• Form clear hypotheses when models underperform and navigate agent workflows toward the correct solution.
• Maintain a deep and current understanding of ML research, especially in foundation models, spectral reasoning, and multimodal learning.
• Contribute to a research agenda focused on spatial data understanding across complex sensor modalities.
• Experiment with state-of-the-art techniques in model architecture, pre-training, and fine-tuning.
• Document experiments clearly and contribute to internal and external technical writing.
• Communicate findings across research and engineering teams with precision.

Skills

Strong mathematical foundation

Information theory and measure theory

Foundation model pre-training & fine-t

Distributed training frameworks: Ray/安

Education

Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics

Tools

Ray

Anyscale

AWS

GCP

Job description

Hyades is a Spatial AI research lab building the foundational intelligence layer for spatial data and machine learning. We develop end-to-end intelligence and MLOps tooling to deploy models across geospatial workflows for enterprise teams.

We are seeking a Research Engineer who can translate frontier ML research into production software, combining deep mathematical thinking with practical engineering to advance spatial data understanding.