R&D Engineer

Faculty

WHY FACULTY? We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here. We don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen. ABOUT THE TEAM Our Defence team is focused on building and embedding human-centered AI solutions which give our nation a competitive edge in the defence sector. We collaborate with our clients to bring ethical, reliable and cutting-edge AI to high-stakes situations and maintain the balance of global powers essential to our liberty. Because of the nature of the work we do with our Defence clients, you will need to be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work between 2 to 4 days per week on-site with these customers which may require travel to locations throughout the UK. When not required on client sites, you’ll have the flexibility to work from our London office or remotely from elsewhere within the UK. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a visionary Computer Vision (CV) Specialist to lead our most ambitious AI initiatives within the defence sector. Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world deployment, you will act as a primary technical authority, architecting sophisticated CV systems that solve critical customer challenges. This is an entrepreneurial opportunity to shape our technical strategy, drive capability development, and represent the business unit as a thought leader. If you thrive on autonomy and want to push the boundaries of applying State-of-the-Art (SOTA) technology, this role offers the platform to make a definitive impact. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Delivering high impact, hands-on computer vision work and architecting technical solutions for complex project requirements. * Leading the technical delivery of CV projects and providing expert guidance to multidisciplinary teams throughout the development lifecycle. * Winning new business by contributing expert CV insight to bids and identifying opportunities to integrate advanced visual intelligence into customer solutions. * Staying at the forefront of the field by mastering SOTA developments and sharing best practices across the business unit to maintain a competitive edge. * Representing the organisation both internally and externally as an authoritative voice and subject matter expert in computer vision. * Partnering with leadership to define the technical strategy for CV work and taking ownership of capability development within the Defence domain. * Mentoring and developing talented team members who share an interest in CV, fostering an environment of continuous learning and technical excellence. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR: * You possess a deep understanding of State-of-the-Art Computer VisionAI approaches and feel confident applying both machine learning and classical computer vision techniques to real-world problems. * You are an experienced technical leader who enjoys the challenge of guiding teams and turning real world problems into architecting system architectures with minimal oversight. * You have a proven track record of deploying CV models into production environments and navigating the practicalities of real-world deployment, performance and latency. * You bring a collaborative and entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both specialist colleagues and non-technical clients. * Your background includes meaningful experience in Python, including object-oriented programming, and you are comfortable exploring low-level components when necessary. * You are passionate about capability building, whether through developing R&D accelerators or helping others sharpen their technical skills through mentorship. THE INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. Talent Team Screen (30 minutes) 2. Introduction to the team (30 minutes) 3. Technical Interview (90 minutes) 4. Commercial Interview (60 minutes) OUR RECRUITMENT ETHOS We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact. We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations. Some of our standout benefits: * Unlimited Annual Leave Policy * Private healthcare and dental * Enhanced parental leave * Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working * Sanctus Coaching * Hybrid Working If you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please don't hesitate in applying as you might be right for this role, or other roles. We are open to conversations about part-time hours.

Fathom

VP OF FINANCE WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS Fathom is a PLG SaaS business at scale. We just hit our first cash-flow-positive month, our AI inference costs are a meaningful and fast-changing line on the P&L, and our pricing, packaging, and unit economics decisions are some of the highest-leverage choices the company makes. There is real, urgent strategic finance work to be done here — and almost none of it looks like traditional controllership. We need someone who can be the financial brain of the company: own the operating model, build a credible point of view on unit economics in a PLG business, partner with the CEO on pricing and packaging, manage AI/COGS as a first-class line item, and be the trusted second opinion on every meaningful financial decision. We do not need someone to build a finance team. The interesting work here is high-leverage and AI-enabled. Our existing vendors (Pilot for accounting, Sphere for tax, Rippling for payroll, Pulley for cap table) handle the things they should handle. This is a hire-of-one, possibly hire-of-two if the right second person comes along, and we expect it to stay that way. WHAT YOU'LL OWN THE HEADLINE WORK — THE REASON WE'RE HIRING YOU The operating model. Own and maintain the company's 3-statement model. Build it for a PLG business — bottoms-up by product surface and self-serve cohort. GTM finance. Marketing spend ROI by channel, customer profitability analysis by segment, renewals and expansion forecasting in partnership with CS. Sales productivity analysis as the sales motion matures. You’ll partner with our Sales, Marketing, and CS leaders as a collaborator on making our GTM machine more efficient — surfacing the data, framing the tradeoffs, and bringing them into the conversation as co-owners of any changes. Finance owns the numbers; the functional leaders own the decisions. Unit economics, cohort analysis, and pricing. LTV, CAC, payback, gross margin by cohort, NRR, GRR — all the standard SaaS metrics, but built for a PLG funnel. Own the financial modeling for pricing and packaging changes; be the person product and the CEO go to before pulling pricing levers. AI / LLM cost management. This is real money, growing fast, and tightly coupled to gross margin. Own the model that forecasts inference cost as a function of usage, model mix, and product decisions. Partner with engineering on optimization opportunities. This line item alone is worth a meaningful percent of the role. Cloud / COGS management. GCP cost analysis, COGS forecasting, gross margin engineering. Same logic as above. Strategic finance projects. Whatever the highest-leverage one-off analysis is this quarter — build-vs-buy, market sizing, scenario modeling, international expansion math, comp band design support. The job is to identify and run these without being asked. KPI definition and reporting standards. Define the financial metrics that matter, standardize how we report them internally and externally, and own the dashboards (you'll spec them; the data team builds them). CEO financial advisor / "numbers brain." Be the trusted second opinion on every meaningful financial decision. Help draft the financial narrative for the board, investors, and acquirers. THE SUPPORTING WORK These are real responsibilities you own, but they shouldn't take meaningful time week-over-week if the systems are set up well: * 13-week cash forecast * Headcount planning and comp modeling * Sales productivity analysis * 409A coordination * Wefunder / SPV investor communications * Comp benchmarking, commission plan design and modeling * Help draft board financial narrative WHAT YOU’LL (LIKELY) DELEGATE We've seen too many VPs of Finance want to take everything in-house so we expect you be involved but heavily delegate a lot of the lower leverage responsibilities: * Monthly close, GAAP financials, AR collections, deferred revenue, stock-based comp, ASC 606 work. Pilot does this. Manage them as a vendor; do not bring it in-house. * All tax work (federal, state, sales tax, international, R&D credit, contractor reporting). Sphere does this. * Payroll, equity admin, bonus pool, EOR for international employees. Rippling and People own this. * Finance tech stack, billing systems, expense management, procurement workflow. Existing systems and existing owners. * Insurance, liability cap modeling, vendor risk, SOC 2 financial controls. Legal/compliance handles. That said, we are not dogmatic, if you have a compelling reason why you should be more hands-on in any of these areas we’re open to it. YOU'RE A FIT IF Required: * You've done finance in a PLG business — and you have strong opinions about how to model self-serve revenue, expansion, and the funnel. We've talked to many VPs of Finance from sales-led SaaS who struggle with this; we will screen hard. * You think about leverage, not headcount. You're proud of how much you ship as a one-person function with AI tooling, vendor relationships, and good systems; it’s impact over all else. The idea of running a four-person team to do the same work makes you uncomfortable. * You're pragmatic, not dogmatic. You don't come in on day one trying to revisit revenue recognition, restructure the chart of accounts, or play financial-engineering games. You focus on real, meaningful impact. * You can be the CEO's "numbers brain." This is half the job. You're the trusted second opinion, the person who finds the missing assumption in a model, the person who reframes a decision with the right unit economics. * You're hands-on. You build the model yourself. You write the SQL. You read the GCP bill line by line. You don't manage finance from a slide deck. * You're fluent with AI tooling and you actively use it to compress your own workload. * Low-ego and easy-going. Life is too short to work with jerks :) We all lead through our actions, not through edict; we expect you to do the same. * You know when to add process and when not to. Your instinct on day one is to understand how we actually operate before adding any process. You don’t build overly complex systems out of the gate; you add structure where the lack of it is hurting us, and you leave the rest alone. * You’re a test-and-learn thinker. Fathom is a testing-forward organization. We speak in ROI and unit economics, but we also know when to bend on the thresholds to learn something. You can hold both ideas at once — the discipline of the numbers and the willingness to run an experiment whose payback isn’t obvious yet. Bonus: * Direct experience modeling and managing AI inference costs as a P&L line item * Background partnering with product on pricing and packaging at a PLG company * You've publicly shared opinions or written about strategic finance, unit economics, or operating models HOW WE'LL KNOW IT'S WORKING * The operating model is the source of truth across the company — used in every leadership conversation, trusted by the board * Unit economics and AI/COGS are forecastable within a tight band; surprises are rare * The CEO defaults to "let me check with [you]" before any meaningful financial decision * The function stays at 1–2 people; existing vendors continue to do the work they do well * You are not bottlenecked on monthly busywork

Wellcosan

DAS SIND WIR! Unser Motto: Unsere Beine tragen uns durch’s Leben – Zeit, dass wir ihnen etwas zurückgeben! Leichte Beine kann jede:r gebrauchen. Daher beschränken wir uns nicht bloß auf eine Zielgruppe. Reboots Mit den Reboots Recovery Tools verschaffen sich Athleten einen Wettbewerbsvorteil, mit dessen Hilfe sie ihre maximale Leistungsfähigkeit nach Trainingseinheiten schneller wieder erreichen können. Spitzensportler, Vereine und Physiotherapeuten in ganz Europa setzen auf Reboots. Durch kontinuierliche Forschung und Zusammenarbeit mit Branchenexperten verschieben wir die Grenzen dessen, was im Bereich der Sports Recovery möglich ist. Venen Engel Mit unserem Venen Engel nehmen Kund:innen aus ganz Europa ihr Wohlbefinden selbst in die Hand. Die hochwertigen Gleitwellenmassage-Geräte von Venen Engel sind die erste Wahl in der Behandlung von Ödemtherapie, sowie ästhetischen Behandlungen. Bei Venen Engel steht der Mensch im Mittelpunkt: Wir unterstützen, stärken und inspirieren, sodass jeder Mensch sich in seiner Haut wohlfühlt und das Leben in vollen Zügen genießen kann. DEINE MISSION: * Du übernimmst Verantwortung für die technische Weiterentwicklung, Stabilität und Performance unserer Shopify-Stores. * Du arbeitest eng mit dem Performance-Marketing- und Brand-Team zusammen und übersetzt Wachstumshypothesen in technische Lösungen – von A/B-Tests über Landingpages bis hin zu Conversion-optimierten Funnels. * Du denkst in Kennzahlen: Du verstehst, wie sich Pagespeed, UX und Funnel-Logik auf Conversion Rate, AOV und Customer Lifetime Value auswirken – und priorisierst Deine Arbeit entsprechend. * Du lieferst proaktiv neue Features und hältst Themes wie Apps auf State-of-the-Art-Niveau. * Du erstellst Shopify Apps – auch zur Anbindung von Drittsystemen – und stellst deren Integration in bestehende Shopify-Stores sicher. * Du unterstützt unser Team beim technischen SEO und sorgst für eine performante, suchmaschinenfreundliche Basis. * Du hältst dich über die neuesten Branchentrends und Technologien auf dem Laufenden, lernst ständig dazu und wendest neue Tools und Praktiken an, um unseren Webauftritt stetig zu verbessern. DAS BRINGST DU DAFÜR MIT: * Du bringst mindestens 2 Jahre Erfahrung als Entwickler:in in einem DTC- oder eCommerce-Unternehmen mit – idealerweise bei einem inhabergeführten Multi-Brand-Setup auf Shopify Plus. Du hast eCommerce nicht nur aus Agentur- oder Freelance-Projekten kennengelernt, sondern warst Teil eines Inhouse-Teams, das gemeinsam an Wachstum gearbeitet hat. * Du besitzt fundierte Kenntnisse in HTML, JavaScript, React und CSS/PostCSS sowie in Shopify Plus & App Development (Front- & Backendentwicklung). * Du arbeitest sicher mit Shopify CLI, Liquid, dem Theme Editor (Schema/Settings) und Shopify Theme Sync. * Du bringst Erfahrung in der Entwicklung von Backend-Funktionen in Node.js, Ruby on Rails oder ähnlichen Technologien mit. * Du gehst sicher mit GitHub um. * Du besitzt ausgezeichnete Problemlösungsfähigkeiten und Liebe zum Detail. * Du sprichst Deutsch auf muttersprachlichem Niveau und Dein Englisch ist sehr gut. Du bist im DACH-Raum ansässig. weiterhin: * Eigenverantwortlichkeit, Selbstdisziplin und eine zielgerichtete Arbeitsweise zeichnen Dich aus. * Du bist motiviert, zuverlässig und bringst ein hohes Maß an Loyalität und Pflichtbewusstsein mit, insbesondere im Umgang mit Code. * Du verstehst, dass guter Code im eCommerce kein Selbstzweck ist – sondern Umsatz, UX und Markenwahrnehmung treibt. * Du hinterfragst gerne den Status Quo, bist offen für Veränderungen und bringst neue Ideen ein, um unsere Prozesse und Produkte stetig zu verbessern. KLINGT SPANNEND? DAS ERWARTET DICH BEI UNS: * Flexible Zeiteinteilung und ortsunabhängiges Arbeiten (Remote innerhalb DACH). * Regelmäßige Teamevents und unsere legendären Onsites zweimal im Jahr (setzt geringfügige Reisebereitschaft voraus). * Kollegiale Atmosphäre mit flachen Hierarchien und kurzen Entscheidungswegen. * Ein Bildungsbudget, über das du frei verfügen kannst. * Ein umfangreiches Benefit-Programm, das u. a. Mitarbeiterrabatte, betriebliche Altersvorsorge, Fahrradleasing und Kita-Zuschuss beinhaltet. * Herausfordernde Projekte mit viel unternehmerischem Gestaltungsspielraum, die du mit Herzblut eigenverantwortlich vorantreibst. * Kein Mikromanagement, sondern viel Freiheit bei der Gestaltung deines Aufgabenbereichs.