About Launchpad Build AI
Launchpad Build AI designs and manufactures advanced automation, robotics, and intelligent systems for next-generation manufacturing and infrastructure. Our new El Segundo facility supports prototyping, assembly, testing, and deployment of complex electromechanical systems as we scale production and customer delivery.
Position Summary
We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineer to join our small, high-impact AI team. You will work directly with the VP of AI to build and maintain the data and model infrastructure that underpins the Manufacturing Language Model. This is a dual-track role: half model development (Language Model fine-tuning, dataset pipelines), half operational AI (internal AI tooling, data audits, application mapping).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Dataset Curation & Language Model Fine-tuning:
• Curate, clean, and version training datasets; maintain data quality standards and train/val/test splits.
• Label and validate ground-truth examples (PDDL task plans, assembly graphs) for transformer training.
• Run training experiments, track metrics (Weights & Biases or equivalent), and document results.
Operational AI toolkit:
• Map internal applications and data flows; identify where AI tooling (document control agents, proposal assistants, Jira/Confluence intelligence) can reduce engineering friction.
• Implement data governance practices: ownership tagging, sensitivity classification, metadata standards.
• Support the VP of AI in preparing data infrastructure reports and board-level metrics.
Required Qualifications
Essential
• ~3 years of experience in an AI, data, or software engineering role
• Strong Python skills; some exposure to PyTorch or a similar deep learning framework
• Experience with dataset curation, labelling pipelines, or ML training workflows
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup where you’ll wear many hats
Desirable
• Experience in applied research — whether through a postgraduate degree, a research role, or published work
• Exposure to robotics, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), ontologies, or industrial software.
Why Launchpad
• Work at the frontier of AI and robotics in manufacturing
• Small team, high ownership: your work ships into real hardware used by manufacturing clients
• Use cutting-edge AI productivity tools daily and help define how we use them
• Flexible working; UK based with hybrid options
