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Our technology is deployed across defence and national security applications - already protecting lives and strengthening security across the U.S. and allied markets.\nBacked by QIC, Main Sequence, R+VC, Salus Ventures, Folklore Ventures, DYNEVenturesand Beaten Zone Venture Partners, Arkeus is entering a major growth phase. We are a small, fast-moving company with the energy and ambition of a start-up and the technical credibility of a world-class defence technology provider.\nWe work at the intersection of optics, autonomy, robotics and real-time AI and we deploy what we build. If you want to ship technology that matters, not technology that ships decks, this is where you belong.\nCheck it yourself onNews | Arkeus\nWe have developed an inclusive,transparentand engaging culture that focuses on building a diverse workforce - realising that to attract thevery best, we need to ensure our culture is ready to welcome people from all ages,gendersand backgrounds.\nAbout the role\nAs a Data Engineer at Arkeus, you will own the pipelines that turn raw imagery and video from our optical sensing platforms into clean, well-structured data our Machine Learning team can actually use.\nYou will build and maintain ETL pipelines for large volumes of image and video data, dig into that data through exploratory analysis to understand its quality and characteristics, and make sure everything the ML team touches is trustworthy, well-labelled, and ready to train on.\nThis is a foundational role - the better the data, the better everything downstream performs.\nAbout you\nYou think in pipelines - you enjoy building the plumbing that makes messy data usable.\nYou're strong with SQL and comfortable working with large, unwieldy datasets.\nYou're fast at prototyping - you'd rather knock out a quick visualisation to understand the data than write a spec about it.\nYou're comfortable working with imagery and video data specifically, not just tabular data.\nYou care about getting data ML-ready, and you understand what \"usable\" means from a model's perspective, not just a database's.\nKey responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for large volumes of imagery and video data.\nConduct exploratory data analysis to understand dataset quality, coverage, and gaps.\nClean, structure, and organise datasets so they're readily usable by the ML team.\nBuild fast prototype visualisations to surface data issues and communicate findings to the team.\nWrite and optimise SQL to query, transform, and manage data at scale.\nCollaborate closely with ML engineers to understand what \"training-ready\" data actually requires.\nMaintain documentation of datasets, pipelines, and data quality processes.\nYour experience and skills\nTertiary qualification in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related discipline.\n3+ years of experience in data engineering, data analysis, or a related field, ideally working with imagery or video data.\nExperience working with unstructured or semi-structured data (images, video, sensor data) is a must.\nDemonstrated experience building ETL pipelines, ideally with image or video data.\nStrong SQL skills, with experience managing and querying large datasets.\nComfortable prototyping quickly in Python, using libraries such as Pandas, Matplotlib, or similar for exploratory analysis and visualisation.\nUnderstanding of what makes a dataset ML-ready - labelling, balance, quality checks.\nEligible for security clearance.\nDesirable:\nExposure to computer vision or ML data pipelines specifically.\nExperience with cloud data storage/processing (e.g. S3, BigQuery, or similar).\nFamiliarity with OpenCV or similar image-processing libraries.\nExperience with data versioning or annotation tooling.\nWhy Join Arkeus\nYou will work on the hardest problems in deep-tech - optics, autonomy, real-time AI and hardware-software integration in a single product. The gap between what you build and where it ends up is almost nonexistent.\nYou will collaborate with exceptional leaders who have 40+ years of combined experience in autonomy, optics and defence. You will be learning from - and contributing to - the best in the field.\nYou will become part of a close-knit, ego-free team where ideas compete on merit, not seniority. Low politics, high trust. The kind of team you will still be talking about in ten years.\nYou will work hard and be expected to bring your best - and in return, you will grow faster than you ever would at a large organisation.\nYou will work on technology that is already deployed in real environments - protecting lives and strengthening security across defence and national security applications.\nYou will receive a competitive, market-benchmarked salary, structured career pathways built to grow with you, and the opportunity to participate in our Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP).\nIf this sounds like you, please apply even if you don't check every box - we care more about how you think than whether your CV is perfect. 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