AI Researcher (Perception)

VC-backed Defence Research Lab | London (on-site)

Most perception systems still rely on expensive hardware, specialist supply chains, and technology that has changed surprisingly little in decades.

This is a stealth research lab, backed by leading European investors, building novel perception systems for defence and security – pushing more capability into software and deploying it at the edge.

The team is currently six people and growing. They bring experience across defence, deployed AI systems, security, and hardware acceleration, including real-world deployments at organisations such as Palantir and Helsing.

The work is classical and modern computer vision – not generative AI, not LLMs. They’re building models that run on severely constrained edge hardware, where power, latency, and memory are hard limits. Custom silicon acceleration is part of the stack.

What you’ll do

• Own the perception problem end-to-end – architectu...