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R&D - the Humans & Machines Lab · Founding role

AI / ML Researcher-Engineer (One)

Hardcore AI/ML researchers and engineers with the curiosity to build great AI, data, and systems.

Office-first9 cities

About the role

You work on the intelligence itself, on a team where research that does not reach a user is unfinished. The questions are shaped by our constraint: the model often runs on hardware the person owns, under a consent boundary, which rules out a lot of easy answers and makes the remaining ones interesting.

What you’ll do

  • Push the frontier on personal AI: knowledge/world models, memory, retrieval, evals
  • Build the data and systems substrate - efficient, sovereign, on-device and edge-first
  • Turn research into shipped capability with real latency, accuracy, and relevance budgets
  • Keep the human in control: consent-native design, interpretability, and honest evaluation
  • Publish and teach in the open where we can; collaborate with our university labs

What we need to see

  • Real research contribution: published work, or a shipped system whose core idea was yours
  • You implement your own ideas to a production standard rather than handing them over
  • Rigor about evaluation: you can tell a genuine improvement from a better-looking benchmark
  • Depth in at least one of reasoning, memory, retrieval, efficiency, or agent architecture

Nice to have

  • Quantisation, distillation, or on-device inference, since that is where our constraint bites
  • Open-weights work, or contributions to an open model ecosystem
  • Privacy-preserving machine learning

What winning looks like

  • Eval and benchmark gains that reach the product
  • Research shipped with real latency and accuracy budgets
  • Reproducibility and honest evaluation

Where and how we work

In the office together five days a week, in any of these cities. Remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time.