Senior Technologist Artificial Intelligence R&D

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: Senior Technologist Artificial Intelligence R&D (Lead Technologist) Location: Great Baddow (Hybrid 2/3 days onsite) Salary: Competitive Who we are Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow - shaping a safer future, for all of us. From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space - there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you. Role Description 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. Typical responsibilities include 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. Essential Requirements 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. You will have experience of previously undertaking Engineering Assurance activities. Proposal writing 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…