Founding AI Research Engineer — Quantitative ML for Defense

Acceler8 Talent

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is partnering with a fast-growing defence AI startup to hire a Founding Research Engineer. You will build quantitative prediction and agent-learning systems designed to detect and conduct a novel class of AI-powered cyber operation.

If you are a quantitative researcher, developer or applied ML engineer with strong empirical judgement and hands-on coding ability, this role is for you. Experience with noisy time-series, signal processing or behavioural modelling is highly valued,

Qualifications

Quantitative researcher, developer or applied ML engineer.
Strong empirical judgement and hands-on coding ability.
Experience with noisy time-series, signal processing or behavioural modelling.
Personally owned models from hypothesis through deployment.
Comfortable with both statistical methods and deep learning.
High-agency and effective in ambiguous environments.
Cybersecurity experience is not required.

Responsibilities

PB-scale multimodal time-series data refreshing in under a second.
Building streaming and data-capture infrastructure.
Creating useful representations from noisy, unstructured signals.
Modelling actor behaviour using statistical models, deep learning and transformers.
Training agents against sparse, long-horizon rewards.