AI Engineer Defence

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Contract: 3 months -- with potential to extend

Salary: Very Competitive

Location: Oxford

Work Pattern: Hybrid & Flexible

Security clearance:This role requires an active SC or DV. We will not be able to progress with your application if you do not currently hold one.

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, AI and robotics. The decisions we make now will define not just how fast we grow, but who we become.

You will work closely with the entire team. You will be trusted with judgment calls. You will influence the business. And you will see the impact of your work every day. If you are excited by ownership, pace and purpose - and by building something that genuinely matters - we would love to hear from you.

Who we are

Founded in 2019, Oxford Dynamics is a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing both digital and physical AI systems built to operate in dynamic, mission-critical environments.

At the core of everything we build is AVIS™ (A Very Intelligent System), our orchestration platform: the intelligence layer that fuses multi-modal data, including text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds, so operators can interrogate complex information at speed and make better decisions under pressure. AVIS™ powers our digital decision products, such as ORION for multi-source decision-to-effect, and it powers our physical platforms, including STRIDER for CBRN operations and BARBARIAN for explosive ordnance disposal. The same brain reasons across the screen and the machine.

We work where wrong decisions can be catastrophic, partnering with defence and security organisations internationally to help protect nations, infrastructure and lives

What You Will Be Doing

We are looking for AI engineers who build and ship agentic AI systems in production. You will work at the cutting edge of agentic and generative AI - designing multi-agent pipelines, integrating large language models and vision-language models into real workflows, and deploying them into secure and air-gapped environments for defence and national security customers. This is a delivery role. You will own features end-to-end - from design through to deployment in constrained environments where reliability and security matter more than speed to market.