AI & Image Processing Scientist

Company Profile Location: Waterbeach, UK Department: Engineering Reports to: Chief Scientist Type: Full-time, Permanent Company Profile Thermoteknix Systems Ltd, founded in 1982 and based in Cambridge, is a world leader in thermal imaging, night vision, and augmented reality systems. Our award-winning technologies are trusted by defence, security, and industrial customers in over 70 countries. With in-house R assess generalisation across cameras, environments and operating conditions. Define image quality and AI performance metrics, including accuracy, false alarms, missed detections, latency and temporal stability, as relevant to the application. Validate algorithms through laboratory testing and field evaluation, investigate failure cases and ensure enhancement preserves scene content and avoids misleading artefacts. Embedded Implementation and Product Support Prototype algorithms and models in Python, MATLAB or similar tools, and work with engineering teams to integrate them into real-time product software and processing pipelines. Optimise models for embedded deployment using appropriate methods such as quantisation, pruning and hardware acceleration, measuring effects on accuracy, image quality and resource use. Support the investigation of production and customer image quality issues, using data analysis and experiments to recommend and validate improvements. Research and Technical Collaboration Work with the Chief Scientist to define research priorities, assess technical risks and contribute to product feasibility studies, design reviews and intellectual property development. Maintain clear algorithm specifications, documented code, model and dataset versions, training configurations and test reports so that results and product releases are traceable. Required Skills