Founding AI & Defense Research Engineer

Society of Defense Financial Management; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Society of Defense Financial Management in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Research Engineer - AI & Defence for an onsite role. You will join a defense AI startup building technology to detect and conduct a novel class of AI-powered cyber operations.

The job involves working with petabyte-scale, multimodal time-series data, blending classical statistics with deep learning, and shaping the company’s technical direction as an early engineering hire.

Qualifications

• Highly quantitative and empirically minded.
• Background in applied ML, statistics, or quantitative research.
• Experience with large-scale data and time-series is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Stream and capture data at scale.
• Convert signals into representations.
• Model future behavior of actors in complex environments.
• Combine classical statistics with deep learning and transformers.
• Shape early engineering direction.
• Collaborate with a small, high-agency team.

Job description

Society of Defense Financial Management in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Research Engineer - AI & Defence for an onsite role. You will join a defense AI startup building technology to detect and conduct a novel class of AI-powered cyber operations.

The job involves working with petabyte-scale, multimodal time-series data, blending classical statistics with deep learning, and shaping the company’s technical direction as an early engineering hire.