Research Engineer
Posted 12 Oct 2026
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Field of studyComputer Vision, Machine learning (or related)
Study levelDoctorate
About us
Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more.
We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.
The role
We're looking for a Research Engineer to join Encord's ML team. You'll work on robotics, computer vision and multimodal research in data curation, annotation, evaluation and quality control, with successful work going into the core product.
We face a variety of interesting research problems across the full data life-cycle, including annotation, quality control, verification and curation. We are looking to strengthen our team to build upon and extend our market-leading platform. The kind of problems we solve are constantly evolving alongside the needs of our frontier customers, including many of the leading robotics and physical AI teams. Join us as we leverage our massive flow of proprietary data on our journey to develop generalised solutions applicable across diverse multi-modal tasks.
What you'll do
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Form hypotheses, design experiments, and drive original research on open problems from leading robotics and AI customers
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Research and prototype agentic workflows which can handle multimodal inputs and diverse customer ontologies
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Advance our work on data curation and model evaluation
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Tackle egocentric video understanding, from captioning to deeper 3d understanding
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Build working prototypes to test ideas end to end, then partner with our ML systems and Product Engineering teammates to bring them into the platform
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Help shape our longer-term research direction and bring the most relevant ideas from the field back to the team
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Publish research papers and present your work at conferences and workshops
Who we're looking for
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A builder with a research mindset. You can take an open-ended problem, form a hypothesis and get to a working prototype without a detailed spec.
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A first-principles problem solver. You lean on strong fundamentals rather than surface-level familiarity with the latest trends.