Engineering
LOCATION: CALMSDEN, CIRENCESTER, UK
FULL-TIME, HYBRID: 2 DAYS (MIN) ON-SITE, 3 DAYS REMOTE
THE LAST FRONTIER
Arctic Research and Development (ARD) was founded on a paradox. The Arctic is both the next great economic frontier and one of the most hostile environments on Earth. Rich in resources and strategically vital, yet bone-chillingly cold, dark for months, and fundamentally inhospitable to humans. This paradox—an explosion of activity in a place that resists human presence—is why we exist.
Our solution is autonomy.
We build systems that operate reliably and intelligently in the Arctic, so that humans don't always have to.
Founded by record-holding pioneers with decades of polar experience, we take calculated risks on hard problems that matter. If you want to build and deploy ground-up technology with real-world impact, at an inflection point in history that won’t reappear, we’d like to talk.
THE ROLE
ARD is building Auka - an intelligence layer for the Arctic that turns a flood of observations into understanding, foresight, and action. Our approach is deliberately grounded in modern science. We develop and run physics models, collect empirical data in the field and laboratory and then use that knowledge to extract meaning from our diverse datasets. We avoid black boxes — the products we ship trace back to the physics and data that produced it.
This role focuses on developing and tuning machine learning pipelines that are fast, trustworthy, and traceable, ingesting diverse datasets with an emphasis on remotely sensed imagery. These pipelines will form the founda