AI Research Scientist (Spatial AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom. Flexible hybrid model with in-person collaboration at the central London office 3 days per week and 2 days working from home.

Company

hirify.global develops smart solutions for organisations, employees, and customers, with a focus on connected enterprise technologies and edge intelligence.

What you will do

• Research, design, and implement Visual-Inertial Odometry, 6-DoF camera pose estimation, and monocular SLAM pipelines for resource-constrained edge hardware.
• Develop spatial localisation, multi-view ray triangulation, IMU-camera sensor fusion, plane-fitting, and tracking algorithms targeting sub-centimetre overlay accuracy.
• Translate research papers into real-time algorithms and optimise neural networks and spatial pipelines for mobile NPUs, DSPs, and GPUs.
• Build on-device spatial foundations for augmented reality, barcode and shelf product recognition, OCR, and multimodal edge AI without cloud connectivity.
• Collaborate with global hardware, software, and product engineering teams to integrate models into commercial product roadmaps.

Requirements

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related quantitative field, specialising in Computer Vision, Spatial AI, or Robotics.
• At least 2 years of hands-on research and development experience with SLAM or spatial tracking systems.
• Deep theoretical and practical understanding of SLAM and Visual-Inertial Odometry.
• Strong foundation in 6-DoF pose tracking, IMU-and-vision sensor fusion, and intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration.
• Experience with 3D geometric computer vision, including ray-plane intersections, epipolar geometry, bundle adjustment, and monocular depth estimation.
• High proficiency in C++ and/or Python and experience with machine learning and computer vision frameworks such as PyTorch, OpenCV, ROS, GTSAM, or Ceres Solver.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 days of vacation and up to 32 hours of paid annual volunteering leave.
• Training, personal development, internal learning resources, and career opportunities across Zebra departments.
• Performance-based annual cash incentive targeted at 10% of base pay, plus annual performance-related salary increases.
• Pension scheme with matched contributions of up to 7%.
• Private medical and dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle-to-work scheme, and employee referral bonus.