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This role sits at the intersection of technology, customer need, and business value, bridging the gap between advanced machine learning capabilities and the practical challenges faced by our customers. As a key technical lead in customer-facing engagements, you will explain the capabilities of Mind Foundry’s products, build trusted relationships with stakeholders, and work collaboratively to identify high-impact opportunities where our technology can deliver meaningful outcomes. \nWorking closely with our Technical and Mission Systems teams, you will help shape new opportunities by identifying where existing technologies can be applied and where new capabilities are needed. You will contribute to internal business cases, customer proposals, bids, and technical marketing content, clearly articulating how Mind Foundry’s products address complex operational challenges. \nFrom an internal perspective, you will act as the voice of our customer, ensuring customer priorities and operational realities are reflected in product road mapping and delivery planning. You will work closely with our product, engineering and science teams to help shape solutions that are technically robust, commercially valuable, and aligned to customer needs. \nTo be successful, we are seeking a candidate who likes to move quickly, build things to test ideas, prove feasibility, and create new value. We are looking for someone who is comfortable trying new things and learns from successes and failures. \nBecause of the nature of this work: \nYou will be required to travel to and work from client sites and partner locations. When not working onsite, this role can be office-based or hybrid from our Summertown, Oxford office. \nYou will need to hold existing or be eligible for UK Security Checked Vetting (SC), details of which can be found on the Gov UK website. \nKey day-to-day activities \nAct as the technical AI/ML lead in customer engagements, clearly communicating Mind Foundry’s technology and its application to real-world complex operational challenges \nWork directly with customers to identify and understand their pain points and priorities, collaboratively scoping opportunities with them face to face \nDefine technical solutions that align customer needs with Mind Foundry's products, capabilities, and roadmap \nPartner with Product, Technical Services, and Mission Systems teams to develop compelling technical solutions that support new business, renewals, and customer success.Contribute to bids, proposals, business cases, and technical marketing material, articulating the value of our technology to technical and non-technical audiences. \nWork closely with the Mission Systems team to prioritise opportunities that have technical and commercial value to us and the customer \nDevelop and maintain a deep understanding of customer problem domains and operational challenges from a scientific and product point of view, allowing identification of innovative ways to deliver value. \nBuild and maintain strong relationships with technical stakeholders across customer and partner organisations \nCollaborate with internal product, delivery and strategy teams to ensure our internal work and investment will deliver value to customers \nExplore and prototype new approaches that showcase the potential of Mind Foundry's technology and inspire customers, partners, and colleagues. \nCore skills & experience \nExperience explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences \nDemonstrable understanding of AI/ML concepts and their application to real-world problems. \nExperience using Python \nStrong presentation, public speaking, and stakeholder engagement skills. \nAbility to translate customer needs into technical requirements and solution designs, working in an agile and collaborative way with customers. \nStrong systems-thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance technical, operational, and commercial considerations. \nStrong aptitude for learning new technical and scientific concepts, and to rapidly understand customer domain, context and challenges \nExperience working with multidisciplinary teams and assimilating contributions from a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders. \nStrong interpersonal, networking and relationship-building skills \nNice to have \nAI and SaaS knowledge, understanding or experience \nEnterprise sales experience \nExperience working in technology for Defence and/or National Security. \nExperience working in the UK Defence Land Domain. \nData Science experience \nWhile we think the above experience is important, we’re keen to hear from people who believe they have valuable skills, ideas, or perspectives that will make an impact in this role. If our team and mission resonate with you, but you do not necessarily meet all of our requirements, we still encourage you to apply. \nWhy Mind Foundry? \nAt Mind Foundry, people have the opportunity to work on problems that are technically challenging, operationally important and genuinely meaningful. We are a close-knit, multidisciplinary team working on complex problems where advanced AI has the potential to make a meaningful difference in the real world. Our work sits at the intersection of research, engineering, product, customer need and operational impact, which means everyone can contribute beyond their job title. \nWhat makes Mind Foundry different is the way we combine technical excellence with pragmatism, responsibility and partnership. We are ambitious about what AI can achieve, but thoughtful about how it should be designed, deployed and trusted. Our teams work closely together, challenging ideas constructively, learning quickly and staying focused on building capability that is useful, credible and operationally relevant. \nAs a growing business, we offer the opportunity to have visible impact. You will be close to the customers, the technology and the decisions that shape our direction. We value people who ask good questions, bring others with them, and take ownership. \nThis is an exciting time to join Mind Foundry. Demand for trusted, deployable AI capability is increasing, our products and partnerships are maturing, and our work is helping to shape how advanced machine learning can support Defence and National Security in challenging operational environments. If you are motivated by meaningful work, collaborative teams and the chance to help build something with real-world importance, Mind Foundry is a place where you can make a genuine contribution. \nOur Values\nWe are one team: We share goals, responsibility and success. We support one another, value what fuels people and ensure no one is left behind.\nWe work with purpose: We focus our effort where it matters most, we work hard, think smart and deliver meaningful results for our team, shareholders and customers.\nWe laugh: We protect a positive environment. We have fun, feel safe, learn, grow and achieve more together.\nWe move forward: We learn from setbacks and frustration, we support each other, solve problems together and don’t dwell on the past.\nWe act with integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest standards and are trusted, discreet and reliable. 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