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# Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Minerva Defence
- **Location:** UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Object Detection, Pytorch, Deep Learning, Model Validation, SC Clearance, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/machine-learning-engineer-computer-vision-minerva-defence-10709917

## About the Role

Minimum:

 * Hands-on experience training and evaluating deep neural networks on real-world image or video data

 * Strong Python, plus experience with a major deep learning framework such as PyTorch

 * Experience getting a model running on real hardware or in a production system

 * Able to work from our London office on a hybrid basis

Preferred:

 * Experience with visual navigation, visual odometry or SLAM

 * Experience with object detection or classification

 * Familiarity with guidance, navigation and control concepts

 * Experience fusing data from multiple sensors or imaging types

 * Experience deploying models to embedded hardware, including quantisation and/or distillation

 * Eligible for UK SC clearance (UK citizen or 5+ years UK residency)

## Description

You'll join the team responsible for the vision and autonomy stack on the vehicles. The work spans navigation, perception and guidance. Engineers will be expected to operate across the full range of the problem set from collecting/designing datasets, model selection/training, optimisation for inference on-edge, flight testing on real systems and monitoring/improving operational performance.

Responsibilities

 * Build and improve the models behind vision-based navigation, perception and guidance.

 * Design, collect and if necessary build annotation pipelines for real and simulated datasets.

 * Design and train deep neural network based computer vision models

 * Optimise models for deployment on edge compute

 * Work with the flight control engineers so model outputs feed reliably into guidance

 * Diagnose failure modes from flight data and fix them through data or model changes