Research Engineer

• Contribute to shaping and delivery of project strategy, integrating cross-functional expertise and understanding the strategic direction for target products
• Plan and manage delivery, including budgets, schedules, and preparation of Technology Development Plans and Technology Business Cases
• Lead development activities, from hands-on testing and trials through to high-quality technical documentation
• Drive projects to exploitation, supporting development toward industrialisation and real-world application
• Engage stakeholders and partners, build and maintain strong relationships across internal and external partners, customers, and the supply chain
• Support and develop people while fostering a safe, inclusive, and high-performing working environment

Senior Research Engineer – Composite Manufacturing Processes

• Conduct applied research on LLM-based reasoning, multi-agent systems and develop frontier bespoke models for automating legal workflows.
• Develop prototypes and experimental models to explore novel AI-driven legal solutions.
• Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, leveraging embeddings, vector databases, and structured retrieval techniques.
• Optimise LLM inference and fine-tuning using techniques such as LoRA, PEFT, prompt engineering, and caching.
• Integrate multi-modal and external knowledge sources to enhance AI-driven insights.
• Research and implement autonomous agentic AI systems for complex, multi-step legal workflows.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in model architectures, alignment and interpretability, and orchestrating complex multi-agent systems.
• Collaborate with engineers to transition experimental models into production-ready systems.

Applied Research Engineer

• Sit in on a customer session, understand how their agents are failing, design an eval that captures it, and drive a fix through to shipped improvement.
• Close a piece of the outer loop end to end: production signal in, dataset out, eval scored, harness change shipped, metric moved.
• Own a slice of our eval infrastructure: dataset curation, harness configuration, runner, analysis, and the comms back to engineering.
• Prototype a new harness or context configuration and measure whether it actually moves the needle on real customer tasks.
• Dig through pages of agent traces, build the tooling you need to make sense of them, and brief the team on what you found.
• Partner with product and engineering on near-term shipping problems by bringing research rigour.
• Pull a recent paper apart, work out what's actually transferable to our platform, and turn it into a concrete experiment.

Technical Staff Member – Research Engineer, Harness Engineering, Agentic Orchestration

• Build production-quality tooling that accelerates offensive security workflows, integrated directly into the watchTowr Platform and our autonomous pipelines
• Design, experiment with, and iterate on LLM-powered systems, agents, and automations for vulnerability discovery, exploit reproduction, and analysis
• Develop and refine the orchestration layers that turn AI capability into reliable, repeatable offensive security outcomes
• Rapidly prototype and validate ideas - turning promising experiments into practical tooling that ships
• Investigate high-impact security problems and explore pathways toward identifying meaningful vulnerabilities, including novel/zero-day findings
• Evaluate emerging models, tools, and AI techniques for where they create real offensive security value versus hype
• Collaborate closely with watchTowr Labs researchers, feeding autonomously reproduced vulnerabilities into our Rapid Reaction and Active Defense capabilities
• Work with a high degree of autonomy and help define what this capability becomes.

AI Vulnerability Research Engineer

• Research Engineers at InstaDeep work closely with our clients to build a deep understanding of the use case and the constraints the operational experts face in their daily operations.
• One of the core responsibilities of a Research Engineer is then to translate this industrial knowledge into optimization problem statements.
• On a daily basis, you will be working with your InstaDeep colleagues to brainstorm, prototype new research ideas and to iterate and improve on existing implementations by running large-scale experiments and deploying high-quality engineering.
• You will also have access to InstaDeep’s powerful compute resources (as of 2024 among the top 20 H100 GPU clusters), enabling you to efficiently train models and accelerate innovation.
• There are also opportunities to engage in pre-sales activities and to support our Business Development team with your acquired unique combination of domain knowledge and AI expertise.

Senior Research Engineer – Reinforcement Learning

• Development of manufacturing processes in relation to polymer, composite and adhesive materials
• Qualification of materials and processes to assure they comply with the requirements
• Support robust, manufacturing process technologies as applied to materials,
• Collect inputs, related to a task and take it through an identified process to produce an output / deliverable adhering to quality and schedule requirements.
• Preparing and guiding tests/test plans; critical and systematic interpretation and analysis of test data.
• Responsible for the technical delivery of allocated project deliverables, or project work packages, ensuring the research objectives have been satisfied.
• Support or lead any necessary 'hands on' development test work and development trials that are required to meet your Work Package/Work Stream delivery objectives.
• Support or lead the design of external work packages to be carried out by third parties to meet project research objectives.
• Responsible for accurately capturing and recording data and results from test work and development trials.
• Responsible for raising and issuing high quality and detailed technical documentation.
• Seek to understand the strategic direction of the target products or manufacturing process technologies being developed within your project(s).
• Contribute to Technology Development Plans and Technology Business Cases within your project(s).
• Contribute to multi-year planning and internal/external funding proposals as required.
• Suggest and explore exploitation routes, aligned with the guidance of the Work Stream Lead.
• You may support project stakeholder management with internal/external customers, and you may lead management of supply chain partners in some cases.
• Take an active role in creating a personal development plan linked to GKN's TEF and will be responsible for delivering on agreed objectives supported by your line manager.
• Ensure EHS policy and process adherence for your activities, and you will contribute to a proactive EHS culture in the wider team.
• Contribute to the development of GKN as a 'Great Place to Work', aligned with the core principles - safe, innovative, open & honest, care & respect, and ownership.

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