Founding AI R&D Engineer (VLMs) – AI Games startup – London Hybrid upto £200k +equitySpent serious time fine tuning Vision Language Models, not just reading about them?Worked with video data, temporal context, and models that need to understand what’s happening over time, not just in a single frame?Comfortable taking research ideas and turning them into something that actually runs in production?The challengeThis startup is building autonomous agents that understand and interact with games the way humans do. That starts with perception.They’ve built their own proprietary model that has beaten the likes of Google and Anthropic on benchmarking. You’ll own the core VLM work that turns raw video and images into usable game understanding. This is not a pure research role and it’s not just application glue. It sits in the middle, applied R&D with real constraints.Your models will be the brain that agents rely on in live environments.What you’ll be working onFine tuning and optimising Vision Language Models such as LLaVA, CLIP, Flamingo, Gemini or similarTraining models on video data, not just static imagesDesigning inputs that capture temporal context across multiple framesBalancing model quality with inference speed and costTaking models all the way to deployment in a production environmentAbout youYou’re likely an AI Engineer or Applied Researcher who:Has hands on experience fine tuning Vision Language ModelsHas worked with video data and understands temporal modelling challengesEnjoys applied R&D and shipping codeCan handle some MLOps to get models into productionThinks about inference, latency, and cost, not just accuracyA research or academic background is helpful but not required. What matters is that you’ve actually built and deployed things.Nice to have, not must havesCUDA or low level inference optimisationPEFT or model compression techniquesExperience optimising models for real time inferenceNot for you ifYou only want to publish papersYou avoid production responsibilityYour experience with VLMs is mostly theoreticalInterested?If you’ve built agents that actually do things and want to take real ownership, get in touch.Click ‘Apply Now’mo@mbnsolutions.com020 3773 6498You must be eligible to work in the UK