Founding AI Research Engineer at Catapult
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Compensation
- Not Disclosed
Catapult is hiring a Founding AI Research Engineer in London to build agents that act in a real user's world. This isn't a lab with no users or a product role with no research; you'll be joining a team of repeat founders to take complex reasoning models from inception all the way to product.
If you're obsessed with retrieval, compaction, and evals, and want equity that matters alongside visa support, this is the founding role for you.
What's the next step?
Catapult are hiring from Jack's network. Talk to Jack for free and get a direct introduction to the team, if a good fit.
Role overview
Join Catapult as a Founding AI Research Engineer to shape the scientific direction of our reasoning models and knowledge-base systems. You will work end-to-end, taking complex research in NLP and vision from inception to product. This role is perfect for engineers obsessed with building agents that act in the real world.
About Catapult
AI · London, United Kingdom · Seed (VC-backed)
Catapult is the agent for your most ambitious knowledge work.
Before your first task, it has already built a deep understanding of you and everything you’ve worked on. It knows how you write, decide, what you’re building, and what needs to happen next. That understanding compounds with every task.
Catapult outperforms the highest-tier models in Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work on most knowledge work tasks. Team of repeat founders, researchers and engineers from Meta, Amazon Research, G-Rese...
Backed by Blockchain Capital, Stani Kulechov, Eden Block, OrangeDAO, Ryan Berkun, Entrepreneur First.
What you will do
- Design and implement end-to-end retrieval and knowledge-base systems that power complex reasoning models for real-world applications.
- Develop advanced AI models capable of reasoning about information live on-screen and across multiple external applications.
- Navigate the full product lifecycle from initial hypothesis and scientific experimentation to deploying user-facing features in a fast-moving environment.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses a deep technical background in NLP and computer vision with a proven ability to solve research-level problems.
- Demonstrates strong engineering skills to build products from scratch, moving seamlessly between experimentation and production-ready code.
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup culture, showing an obsession for building tools that bridge the gap between a lab and a user.
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at the intersection of high-level research and product delivery, building AI agents that interact directly with live user screens and applications.
- Join an elite founding team of repeat founders and researchers in London, offering a high-stakes environment where your equity truly matters.
- Full support for international talent with visa sponsorship available, allowing you to focus on solving the most challenging technical problems in AI.
How Jack & Jill work together
What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and Catapult wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.