LOCATION(S): UK, EUROPE & AFRICA : UK : GREAT BADDOW

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Job Title: Lead Technologist
Requisition ID: 121679
Location: Great Baddow, Hybrid working with 2 days onsite per week
Grade: GG12 - GG13
Referral Bonus: £5,000
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is seeking to recruit a Lead Technologist to join our rapidly expanding Data and Decision Support Capability.
The Data and Decision Support Capability has teams working in: reinforcement learning; NLP/LLMs; knowledge graphs and graph based neural networks; AI for RF and EW, radar, sonar, acoustics, AI for image and video recognition tasks. The latter includes both computer vision and remote sensing application areas.
You should have existing skills in the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. You are also likely to have a strong background in the mathematics, statistics and computational techniques which underpin AI/ML

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• You will have a PhD in a relevant discipline and circa 10+ years of demonstrable experience in an AI/ML role in industry or academia, preferably in the Defence sector.
• You will have experience of previously leading R&D teams with a minimum of 5 developers.
• You will have experience of previously undertaking Engineering Assurance activities.
• Proposal writing (e.g. Dstl, NS, EPSRC) experience is essential.

Of particular interest are candidates with experience in one or more of the following domains:

• AI/ML for imagery including applied to remote sensing applications.
• Reinforcement learning.
• Natural Language Processing.
• Large Language Models.
• Knowledge graphs and graph-based neural nets.
• AI/ML for RF and EW, radar, sonar, acoustics.
• Autonomy

DESIRABLE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Evidence of publication in relevant journals and conferences is highly advantageous.

• Lead technical delivery of large AI projects. Leading and assuring the preparation and delivery of technical reports, technical proposals and supporting material.
• Identify novel research in given topic areas, with the potential for partnership with leading UK Universities or other parts of BAE Systems. Direct research activities in key areas.
• Effectively present research topics to both technical and non-technical audiences in house and to external customers.
• Undertake technical mentoring of more junior staff.
• Provide engineering assurance on bids, publications and project deliverables, improving the quality of these outputs using your skill and experience.