London, United Kingdom Hybrid Employment

Plumerai is hiring a Senior AI Research Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior AI Research Engineer, you'll drive innovation in embedded artificial intelligence by developing compact, high-performance models and refining multimodal large language systems. Your work will directly impact AI features deployed across millions of edge devices, balancing accuracy with extreme efficiency constraints.

What You'll Do

  • Enhance and deploy multimodal LLMs to enable new capabilities, optimizing performance across cloud and edge environments
  • Design and train deep learning models with minimal memory footprint—down to 1MB—for deployment on low-power hardware
  • Refine data pipelines, model architectures, and training infrastructure to improve model accuracy and efficiency
  • Run distributed training jobs using PyTorch and TensorFlow on Kubernetes clusters
  • Construct and manage datasets using Snowflake and Dataflow
  • Develop interactive prototypes with Streamlit to demonstrate new AI features
  • Utilize GCP-hosted GPUs for model training and automated data labeling
  • Support the delivery of AI-powered features to deployed camera systems at scale

Requirements

  • Minimum of five years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python proficiency
  • Proven expertise with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, or JAX
  • Hands-on experience in computer vision and multimodal LLMs
  • Track record of training neural networks that have transitioned into production environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Industry experience deploying models efficiently in cloud or edge settings
  • Background in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Technical Environment

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, JAX, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Dataflow, Streamlit, Google Cloud Platform, GPU acceleration

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous equity stake in the company
  • Relocation support available
  • Choice of laptop and equipment
  • 25 days paid vacation plus bank holidays
  • Opportunity to attend leading research conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, and CVPR

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role with office locations in London and Amsterdam. The team meets in person on at least two fixed days per week, with flexible scheduling for the remainder. Work hours are adaptable to support productivity and work-life balance.

Company Culture

We practice full-stack AI development, combining deep theoretical insight with rapid, practical implementation. Our focus is on fast iteration, high accuracy, energy efficiency, and strong privacy standards. Innovation is central, and engineers are empowered to ship impactful features frequently.

Required Skills
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowKerasJAXComputer VisionMultimodal LLMsNeural NetworksProduction DeploymentGCPKubernetes PythonPyTorchTensorFlowKerasJAXComputer VisionMultimodal LLMsNeural NetworksProduction DeploymentGCPKubernetes
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About company
Plumerai

Plumerai develops software building blocks that enable customers to embed production-worthy AI inside their products. We achieve this through a relentless focus on the full AI stack, from collecting and curating data, to training algorithms, model architectures, inference engines, and hardware optimizations.

Our people detection AI consistently proves to be the most accurate in any environment, while consuming minimal resources. With a tiny memory footprint of 1MB, it runs efficiently on nearly every CPU, even on $1 microcontrollers. Our inference engine for microcontrollers is the fastest and smallest in the world, confirmed by MLPerf.

We provide full AI solutions for smart home cameras, including familiar face identification, stranger identification, people detection, vehicle detection, animal detection, and advanced motion detection. The software is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and BIPA to ensure responsible deployment across the US, EU, and UK.

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Posted 10 days ago