Research Engineer (India based)

Role:                Research Engineer

Salary:             Competitive

Contract:         1 year Contract with potential to extend

Location:         India

A note from the founders

Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point.

We operate in some of the most complex and high-stakes environments in the world: defence, national security, and incident response. The decisions we make now will define not just how fast we grow, but who we become.

We know that the best people don’t always arrive in time for a specific job ad. If you’re excited by ownership, pace and purpose, and by building something that genuinely matters, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t see a live role that fits

Who we are

Founded in 2020, Oxford Dynamics is a fast-growing UK deep-tech company developing both digital AI and physical AI systems designed to operate in dynamic, mission-critical environments.

Our flagship AVIS (A Very Intelligent System) platform fuses multi-modal data, including text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds, enabling operators to interrogate complex information at speed and make better decisions under pressure. We apply AVIS in the real world through platforms like STRIDER for CBRN applications and BARBARIAN for explosive ordnance detection.

Our ambition is simple but demanding: to converge AI and robotics so machines can sense, understand and act in complex, real-world environments. We work with defence and security organisations internationally to help protect nations, infrastructure and lives.

Core Brief:

You will help convert OD’s research into capabilities that ship into some of the most demanding environments in the world. The role offers a rare combination: frontier ML research, real engineering ownership, and a direct line of sight from your work to operational impact. If you want your research to leave the lab and genuinely matter, we’d love to meet you.

The Role:

As our Research Engineer, you will sit at the boundary between frontier machine-learning research and shipped product. You will take ideas from the research edge, reinforcement learning, RLHF, multi-objective policy optimisation and LLM post-training, and turn them into capabilities that make our platforms measurably better.

This is a Research Engineer role. You will read the literature, prototype quickly, and see your work through into systems our customers depend on, while connecting that research to OD’s product vision and to what our customers actually need.  As we are a UK based organization, the expectation for the role is to align working pattern to UK office hours.