Founding AI Research Scientist | LLMs · Deep Learning · Frontier AI
London (Hybrid)
My customer builds frontier AI that gives an information advantage to those solving the world's hardest problems - working with governments, national security, and private organisations in the most demanding environments.
This is a founder-led research role. The CEO (AI PhD) has already built the model stack powering what the company ships today. You're the hire who takes it further - scaling it into a team and owning the entire stack.
What you’ll do:
- Design, train and fine-tune custom deep-learning models and proprietary LLMs - architecture, training objectives, evaluation
- Own a hard detection and analysis pipeline end-to-end, from raw signal to client-ready insight
- Push matching and extraction beyond similarity search to precision you engineer, on models you train
- Turn proprietary data - at a scale most labs never see - into models that beat commercial baselines
- Set research strategy directly with the founder, then hire and lead the research team
What you’ll bring:
- Experience fine-tuning or pretraining LLMs and deep-learning models
- Fluency in PyTorch, comfortable owning training runs end-to-end (data → deployment)
- Research ambition above all - you reach for the approach that could win, not just the one that works
- A founder mindset: ownership, pace, comfort with ambiguity, and the discretion this work demands
- Eligibility for UK security clearance is advantageous
Why this role:
- A proprietary dataset at a scale you can't get anywhere else, aimed at a mission that matters
- Real ownership and founder-level access - the freedom to do genuine research
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Founding AI Research Scientist employer: Blue Wolf Digital
At Blue Wolf Digital, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and innovative work culture that empowers our employees to take ownership of their projects. As a Founding AI Research Scientist in London, you will have unparalleled opportunities for professional growth while working alongside visionary leaders in the field. Our hybrid work model ensures flexibility, allowing you to balance your personal and professional life while contributing to groundbreaking advancements in AI.
