Catapult
Founding AI Research Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA; London, UK
- Team
- Engineering
- Posted
- 1d ago
Quick summary
Catapult is hiring a Founding AI Research Engineer to shape its scientific and research direction. The work spans retrieval and knowledge-base systems, reasoning models, and models that reason about information on screen and across other applications. You will work end to end: framing a problem, forming and testing hypotheses, building the system, and carrying it through to a product people use.
What you'll do
- Identify and solve difficult technical and research-level problems.
- Build products end to end, from experimentation to user-facing applications.
- Bring depth in NLP, vision, and AI research.
- Find the next hard technical problem across the product and take it on.
What they're looking for
- Five or more years of experience on similar research or engineering problems.
- A strong record of solving hard problems in academic or industrial environments.
- The ability to manage scientific workflows and build robust, scalable products.
- Comfort reading, understanding, implementing, and ideally extending current AI research.
Nice to have
- Experience with NLP, LLMs, or other AI and machine-learning systems.
Read the full description
Catapult is hiring a Founding AI Research Engineer to shape its scientific and research direction. The work spans retrieval and knowledge-base systems, reasoning models, and models that reason about information on screen and across other applications.
You will work end to end: framing a problem, forming and testing hypotheses, building the system, and carrying it through to a product people use.
What you will do
Identify and solve difficult technical and research-level problems.
Build products end to end, from experimentation to user-facing applications.
Bring depth in NLP, vision, and AI research.
Find the next hard technical problem across the product and take it on.
Requirements
Five or more years of experience on similar research or engineering problems.
A strong record of solving hard problems in academic or industrial environments.
The ability to manage scientific workflows and build robust, scalable products.
Comfort reading, understanding, implementing, and ideally extending current AI research.
Nice to have
Experience with NLP, LLMs, or other AI and machine-learning systems.
What Catapult offers
Competitive salary and truly generous stock options.
Comprehensive Bupa Private Healthcare and wellbeing allowances.
A tax-efficient pension scheme with salary sacrifice.
Generous workplace nursery benefit.
34 days of paid holiday, including public holidays.
Work-visa sponsorship so you can come build with us in person in London.
All the equipment you need to perform at your very best.