{"id":1961193,"url":"https://alion.io/job/founders-factory-ai-software-engineer-project-tricorder","title":"AI software Engineer - Project Tricorder","company":{"id":7478,"name":"Founders Factory","domain":"foundersfactory.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/founders-factory","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":true,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bristol, United Kingdom","London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Edge AI","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Evaluation","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"NLP","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"FHIR","optional":true},{"name":"HL7","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T15:14:14Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-06","last_verified_at":"2026-10-23T14:31:39Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":16},"description":"Project Tricorder - Clinical Infrastructure for Field Operations\nWe're looking for a hands-on engineer to build two foundations of the Tricorder product: the evaluation harness and training data pipeline behind our AI models, and a clinical knowledge base grounded in tactical combat care, SNOMED CT and ICD-10.\nAbout Project Tricorder -https://www.tricorder-systems.com/\nMost healthcare technology assumes a hospital: reliable power, connectivity and a clinician at a desk. Care increasingly happens somewhere else - in the field, in transit, in remote and contested environments, and in the critical minutes before a patient reaches a ward.\nTricorder builds the deployable clinical infrastructure for that world: a rugged, self-contained hardware and software platform that lets clinical teams capture, monitor and act on patient data anywhere, even when the network or the grid can't be relied on. It is a dual-use venture serving defence medical and civilian pre-hospital care.\nOur prototype product is already in user testing. Edge AI sits at the core: multimodal language models that turn video, sensor data and clinical notes into patient records, drive predictions and inform data-driven learnings across deployments. To trust those models in the field, we need rigorous data and evaluation - that's where you come in.\nWhat you'll do\nYou'll own two workstreams, working day to day with the founder and the FF build team.\n1. Data pipeline and evaluation harness\nBuild the data foundations that tell us whether our models are good enough for clinical use.\nData labelling: design labelling schemas and guidelines, set up tooling, and run labelling with clinical input, including quality checks and inter-annotator agreement.\n\nData processing: build reproducible pipelines to ingest, clean, de-identify and transform multimodal data (video, sensor streams, text).\n\nVideo data organisation: structure, version and catalogue video datasets so clips, annotations and metadata stay searchable and traceable.\n\nTraining dataset preparation: assemble balanced, well-documented train, validation and test splits, with clear lineage from raw data to model input.\n\nEval harness: build an automated harness that benchmarks vision-language and NLP models against clinically meaningful metrics, tracks regressions and supports build-vs-buy model decisions.\n\n2. Clinical knowledge base\nBuild the structured clinical knowledge base that turns unstructured input into coded, interoperable records.\nDatabase design: design the schema and stand up the data store for clinical concepts and their relationships.\n\nClinical terminologies: ingest and map TC3, SNOMED CT, ICD-10 and related NHS standards, including cross-mappings between them.\n\nNatural language processing: extract entities and relationships from clinical text and link them to coded concepts.\n\nDocument handling: parse and structure clinical documents (PDFs, notes, forms) into the database.\n\nClinical knowledge: work with clinicians to make sure the database reflects real-world clinical reasoning and pre-hospital workflows.\n\nBy the end of the first 3 months, we'd expect a working eval harness in use for model decisions, a labelled and versioned core dataset, and a first version of the knowledge base linked to the product.\nWhat we're looking for\nWe don't expect one person to be expert in everything below. Strong candidates will be deep in one workstream and credible in the other.\nMust-haves\nStrong Python and data engineering skills, with a track record of shipping production data or ML pipelines, not just research notebooks.\n\nHands-on experience building ML evaluation frameworks, benchmarks or test harnesses, ideally for vision, video or language models.\n\nExperience running data labelling and training-data preparation, including annotation tooling and quality control.\n\nWorking knowledge of databases and data modelling.\n\nPractical NLP experience: entity extraction, entity linking or document parsing.\n\nComfort handling sensitive data under data protection and clinical safety constraints.\n\nPragmatism and speed: you can work with ambiguity, make good build-vs-buy calls and ship in weeks, not quarters.\n\nNice to have\nExperience with SNOMED CT, ICD-10, dm+d or other NHS clinical terminologies and coding.\n\nA background in health-tech, clinical informatics or another regulated domain such as defence.\n\nExperience with video data at scale (frame sampling, temporal annotation, multimodal datasets).\n\nFamiliarity with FHIR or HL7 interoperability standards.\n\nExperience working with LLMs and VLMs, including edge or on-device deployment.\n\nEarly-stage startup experience, especially as a founding or early engineer.\n\nProbably not the right fit if\nYou need detailed specs and a large team around you to be effective.\n\nYou prefer pure research over building tools people use every day.\n\nThis is a high urgency opening, and we are flexible to consider applicants either on a more flexible consultancy agreement (rolling by mutual agreement, with a competitive day rate); 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