AI Applied Researcher

Job summary

Responsibilities

France and Europe have world-class acoustic engineers and a long history in underwater warfare. By bridging this expertise with modern physical-AI strategies (as seen in autonomous driving and robotics).

• Design, train and ship state-of-the-art multimodal and acoustic models for underwater detection, classification and localization.
• Build the training pipeline end to end: self-supervised pre-training on large unlabeled acoustic corpora, then fine-tuning for specific threats.
• Fuse acoustic, kinematic and other sensor modalities into a single representation that holds up in low-SNR, real-world conditions.
• Shape Pelagon's data strategy — how we capture, curate and compound proprietary data from our own fleet into a durable advantage.
• Distill and optimize models to run on the edge: compute- and power-constrained hardware aboard autonomous vectors at sea.