Hammer Missions
Computer Vision & Applied AI Engineer — Drones, LiDAR & 3D Reconstruction
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Computer Vision & Applied AI Engineer, focused on applying Vision AI Models for Drone Data.
📍 West London, UK
🏢 Hybrid: 2-3 days per week in the office
💼 Full-time
📈 Competitive salary + equity options
We’re looking for a Computer Vision & Applied AI Engineer to help build the next generation of intelligent inspection technology.
At Hammer Missions, we use drones, LiDAR, 3D cameras and AI to transform how buildings and infrastructure are inspected, understood and maintained. Our platform converts real-world visual and spatial data into accurate digital models and actionable insights, enabling engineering teams to carry out inspections more safely, efficiently and intelligently.
Our software is already used by engineering firms around the world. As we expand our product, engineering team and presence in the US market, we’re looking for an engineer who wants to take meaningful ownership of our computer vision and AI systems.
This is not a narrowly defined research role. You will work across model development, 3D data processing, software engineering and production deployment. You will help shape the technical roadmap, turn ideas into real products and build systems that solve difficult problems in the physical world.
✨ THE OPPORTUNITY
- You will join the core engineering team and work closely with senior leadership, product and software engineering.
- You will take a leading role in the development of our computer vision and AI capabilities, including model design, experimentation, evaluation, deployment and monitoring.
- You will also contribute to the wider platform, helping us build reliable end-to-end systems that connect drone and LiDAR data with user-facing inspection workflows.
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Own important parts of the AI and computer vision stack
- Influence the technical roadmap from an early stage
- Work with real-world imagery, video, LiDAR and 3D spatial data
- Move ideas from research and prototyping into production
- Solve technically challenging problems with visible customer impact
- Help shape the engineering culture of a growing startup
- Play a meaningful role in the future of aerial robotics and building safety
💪 WHAT YOU’LL DO
Computer Vision & Applied AI
- Design, train, evaluate and improve computer vision and machine learning models
- Build systems that process imagery, video, LiDAR, point clouds and 3D spatial data
- Develop solutions for intelligent inspection, mapping, reconstruction and analysis
- Improve model accuracy, robustness, inference speed and production reliability
- Define evaluation methods, benchmarks and experimentation workflows
- Investigate new techniques and determine when they are valuable in practice
- Turn research ideas and prototypes into dependable product features
- Build tooling for dataset preparation, experimentation and model validation
- Help establish effective model deployment, monitoring and retraining processes
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Software & Production Engineering
- Design, develop and deploy new AI and software features into production
- Build secure, scalable and fault-tolerant services
- Contribute to 3D modelling, photogrammetry and geospatial processing initiatives
- Integrate AI capabilities into Hammer Hub and customer-facing workflows
- Improve code quality, maintainability and long-term system resilience
- Test, monitor and analyse application and model performance in production
- Diagnose technical issues across the stack and implement durable solutions
- Introduce engineering best practices, tooling and development processes
Team & Technical Leadership
- Help define and deliver the engineering and AI roadmap
- Plan and execute bi-weekly development sprints with the software team
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering and senior leadership
- Develop a strong understanding of the complete Hammer Missions platform
- Communicate technical decisions clearly and contribute to architectural discussions
- Help build a high-performance engineering culture based on ownership, quality and improvement.
⌨️ OUR TECH STACK
Computer Vision & AI
- Computer vision, deep learning and applied AI models
- Image, video, LiDAR and point-cloud processing
- 3D modelling, photogrammetry and geospatial data processing
- Model training, evaluation, optimisation and deployment
Backend
- Python, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js
Frontend
- Vue.js, Google Maps JavaScript API
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, Docker, Docker Compose
CI/CD
- GitHub Actions, Automated testing and deployment workflows
You do not need to have experience with every technology listed. We care more about strong fundamentals, relevant problem-solving ability and the capacity to learn quickly.
✨ WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for someone with strong computer vision or applied AI experience who is equally motivated by building reliable products.
You may be a great fit if you have:
- Experience developing computer vision, machine learning or applied AI systems
- Strong Python development skills
- Experience building, training and evaluating vision models
- Experience working with image, video, LiDAR, point-cloud or spatial datasets
- An understanding of model validation, benchmarking and performance optimisation
- Experience deploying AI models, applications or services into production
- Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals
- An understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability and performance
- Experience building backend services using FastAPI, Flask, Node.js or similar frameworks
- Experience with Git, Docker, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure and modern databases
- A track record of building end-to-end systems rather than isolated prototypes
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Experience in any of the following would be especially valuable:
- Drones or aerial robotics
- Robotics or autonomous systems
- Photogrammetry or 3D reconstruction
- Geospatial technology or mapping
- LiDAR and point-cloud processing
- Computer graphics or game-engine technology
- Infrastructure, construction or building inspection technology
We are interested in engineers who can demonstrate strong technical judgement, curiosity and an ability to build systems that work outside controlled environments.
🧠 HOW YOU WORK
You are likely to thrive at Hammer Missions if you:
- Enjoy solving ambiguous, technically difficult problems
- Take ownership and follow problems through to completion
- Balance experimentation with practical engineering judgement
- Care about the quality, reliability and maintainability of your work
- Move quickly without losing sight of long-term technical decisions
- Communicate clearly and collaborate well across disciplines
- Are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment
- Have a genuine interest in robotics, computer vision, geospatial technology and applied AI
- Want your work to have a visible impact on real customers and real-world safety
🎁 WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary
- Equity options
- 29 days of holiday
- Hybrid working, with two days per week in our West London office
- Company laptop, monitors, headphones and the equipment you need to work effectively
- Technical books purchased by the company
- Monthly team lunches and activities
- Significant ownership and influence over the technical direction of the AI development
- The opportunity to join a growing company at an important stage of its development
💡 ABOUT HAMMER MISSIONS
Hammer Missions is an AI software company founded in 2019. We are a team of engineers and professionals passionate about using drones, 3D cameras and artificial intelligence to solve meaningful real-world problems. Our technology helps engineering teams inspect buildings and infrastructure more safely, create accurate digital records and make better maintenance decisions.
Just as hammerstones were among the earliest technologies created by humans, we see drones and AI as the 21st-century hammer: powerful tools capable of unlocking significant value across engineering, infrastructure and other industries. Our software is already used by engineering firms globally, and we are now entering the next stage of our growth.
🔗 APPLY
If you want to build production computer vision systems, work with challenging real-world data and help shape the future of intelligent inspections, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us build the future of drones, LiDAR, 3D technology and applied AI.
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