Required Senior Applied AI Researcher- Sovereign AI Research
About The Position
Nations are waking up to a hard truth: critical intelligence infrastructure built on hyperscaler black boxes isn't a solution it's a dependency. The Sovereign AI Research Group exists to answer that differently.
We're not fine-tuning what already exists. We're rethinking the models architecture from the ground up modular, composable, and built with compute governance as a first-class design constraint, not an afterthought.
We operate under real-world constraints. The interesting problems live at the intersections of disciplines. That's where we operate.
This is a hands-on research role embedded within a team of senior researchers. Day to day includes training models, running benchmarks, synthesize data. The researchers you'll work alongside will challenge you technically and invest in your growth.
Responsibilities:
Open Research Tracks
Familiarity with at least one is expected:
Computer Vision: object detection, segmentation, multimodal grounding, vision-language models, contrastive and self-supervised representation learning, low-resource and few-shot visual recognition.
NLP / Speech: LLMs, NERs, relation extraction, span-based and generative IE, semantic textual similarity, multilingual and cross-lingual transfer.
Reinforcement Learning: MDPs, POMDPs, model-based and model-free RL, Online Offline methods, reward modeling, sim-to-real transfer, compute-aware planning.
Graph Learning: GNNs, graph clustering, community structure, generative methods, knowledge graph embeddings, dense and sparse semantic retrieval.
Optimization: convex and nonconvex optimization, constrained and Lagrangian methods, combinatorial and integer programming, knowledge distillation (response, feature, and relation-based), test-time optimization, Bayesian optimization, resource-aware inference.
Representation Learning: contrastive learning, self-supervised and unsupervised pre-training, disentangled representations, metric learning and embedding spaces, cross-modal and multimodal alignment, meta learning (hypernetworks), transfer learning and domain adaptation, probing and interpretability of learned representations, world models.
Neurosymbolic AI: neuro-symbolic integration, differentiable theorem proving, inductive logic programming (ILP), probabilistic soft logic (PSL), causal inference and structural causal models (SCMs), programmatic and compositional reasoning
Responsibilities:
Train and evaluate models across research tracks, iterating fast while documenting rigorously.
Build and maintain benchmarking pipelines and evaluation suites.
Curate, structure, and preprocess datasets; contribute to synthetic data generation workflows.
Run ablations and controlled experiments to support research hypotheses.
Reproduce and stress-test results from recent literature relevant to the group's work.
Collaborate across tracks and with engineering teams through to production handoff.
Requirements: MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics.
Strong academic record with hands-on experience / thesis research.
Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred).
Comfort with the full data lifecycle: sourcing, structuring, cleaning, and transforming raw data into training-ready assets.
This position is open to all candidates.