Founding AI Research Engineer — End-to-End R&D to Product

Catapult; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous stock options

Healthcare (Bupa)

Pension scheme

Nursery benefit

34 days holiday

Visa sponsorship (London)

Equipment provided

Job summary

Catapult is seeking a highly capable researcher/engineer to push the frontier and build end-to-end systems from idea to product. You will tackle agentic systems, retrieval/knowledge-base work, data processing, evaluation, and experimentation while delivering robust, scalable products.

You’ll work largely independently, identifying critical problems and delivering complete end-to-end solutions. The role blends rigorous research with practical software engineering in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience solving research or engineering problems.
• Strong record of solving hard problems in academic or industrial settings.
• Ability to develop your own research problems and translate to scalable products.
• Able to learn quickly, read frontier papers, and articulate ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Identify and solve genuinely difficult technical and research problems.
• Deliver end-to-end solutions from idea to product with minimal external help.
• Form hypotheses, build systems, and carry them to production.

Skills

Independent work

Problem solving

Research-to-product

Fast learner

Job description

Catapult is seeking a highly capable researcher/engineer to push the frontier and build end-to-end systems from idea to product. You will tackle agentic systems, retrieval/knowledge-base work, data processing, evaluation, and experimentation while delivering robust, scalable products.

You’ll work largely independently, identifying critical problems and delivering complete end-to-end solutions. The role blends rigorous research with practical software engineering in a fast-moving environment.