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The role
The founding AI research engineer must be a brilliant problem solver, researcher, and engineer — and will be instrumental in shaping the scientific and research AI direction for Catapult. The work of this role focuses our retrieval and knowledge-base systems, our reasoning models, models for reasoning about information live on screen and from other applications, and more. In each case, the founding AI research engineer will be working end-to-end on each of these projects, taking them from inception all the way to product.
The ideal candidate must not just have strong scientific and technical abilities, but the ability to learn quickly and work in a very fast-moving environment.
You’ll love this role if you enjoy…
- Identifying and solving very challenging technical and research-level problems
- Building products end-to-end (from hypothesis and experimentation all the way to user-facing application)
- Bringing expertise on and keeping abreast of current research and developments in NLP, vision, and more
- Helping identify and tackle technical challenges that may emerge across the product
- Pushing beyond your comfort zone and maximise your potential
Requirements and experience
- 5+ years of experience working on similar projects
- A strong track record of solving similar problems in either an academic or industrial setting
- A strong track record displaying the ability to manage both scientific (e.g. forming and testing hypotheses) and engineering workflows (e.g. building robust and scalable products, etc.)
- The ability to read current research in the field (NLP/AI) and the ability to understand, implement, and ideally build upon those ideas.
- Experience working with NLP/LLMs or other AI/ML