Founding AI Research Engineer for Defense & Quant ML

Acceler8 Talent; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent in San Francisco (onsite) seeks a Founding Research Engineer - AI & Defence to join a high-ambition startup building novel AI-powered defense technology. You’ll work with petabyte-scale, multimodal time-series data and help craft the full prediction and learning stack.

You may be a Quantitative Researcher or Developer in top systematic environments; backgrounds include math, statistics, signal processing, ML, and intelligence tech. No cybersecurity experience required.

Qualifications

• The strongest candidates will be highly quantitative, empirically minded and comfortable working on ambiguous research problems.
• Prior cybersecurity experience is not required.
• The company is revenue-generating with runway and seeded by notable investors.

Responsibilities

• Stream and capture continuously refreshing data at scale.
• Convert noisy, often ungrounded signals into useful representations.
• Model the future behaviour of actors within complex environments.
• Combine classical statistical methods with deep learning and transformers.
• Build agents that learn new strategies from sparse, long-horizon reward signals.
• Shape the technical direction of the company as an early engineering hire.

Skills

Quantitative

Empirical thinking

Machine learning

Sequential modelling

Statistics

Signal processing

Education

Applied mathematics or statistics

Intelligence or national-security technology

Job description

Acceler8 Talent in San Francisco (onsite) seeks a Founding Research Engineer - AI & Defence to join a high-ambition startup building novel AI-powered defense technology. You’ll work with petabyte-scale, multimodal time-series data and help craft the full prediction and learning stack.

You may be a Quantitative Researcher or Developer in top systematic environments; backgrounds include math, statistics, signal processing, ML, and intelligence tech. No cybersecurity experience required.