Data Acquistion Module Lead (Defense AI)

Location: Paris, France; onsite

Company

hirify.global is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems for allied forces.

What you will do

• Translate computer vision and AI data needs into prioritized collection roadmaps and field campaigns.
• Plan and run campaigns across sensors, scenarios, environments, and data volumes.
• Own field sessions, sensor integration, calibration, time synchronization, and logging across aircraft and ground systems.
• Build the pipeline from raw field capture to curated, documented, versioned datasets with quality checks.
• Define dataset acceptance criteria and coordinate handovers with computer vision engineers and the annotation provider.
• Lead and grow the module team while remaining hands-on in field operations and reporting data coverage and gaps.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in sensor data collection or field testing for perception or AI systems, ideally airborne.
• Hands-on experience with EO/IR, radar, or comparable sensors, including synchronization, calibration, storage, and metadata.
• Experience running multi-person field campaigns and leading a small team.
• Proven ability to turn model-team needs into concrete data collection plans.
• Experience with piloting or flight operations.
• Safety-conscious, organized, pragmatic in the field, and comfortable arbitrating scarce flight time.
• Clear communication with AI engineers who depend on delivered data.

Nice to have

• Background in electronics, signal processing, robotics, physics, or computer science.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, onsite work in Paris, France.
• Work in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, execution, and technical excellence are expected.
• Build systems with real-world impact for autonomous defense applications.