AI Research Intern

Job description

About Us Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. Following the close of a $200M Series B, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, we are expanding our teams and capabilities to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces. Our work is guided by clear values: building technologies with real-world impact, pursuing excellence in everything we do, setting ambitious goals, and taking on the hardest technical challenges. We operate in a demanding environment where rigor, ownership, and execution are expected. Responsabilities: Design and implementation of deep learning models for computer vision tasks. Research and experimentation with CNNs and Vision Transformers. Model compression techniques such as knowledge distillation. Quantisation-aware training (QAT) and post-training quantisation (PTQ). Network and dataset pruning strategies. Design of efficient architectures for edge and embedded systems. Dataset curation, balancing, and bias mitigation. Experimental design, ablation studies, and reproducibility practices. Robust evaluation using appropriate metrics (e.g., mAP, IoU, calibration). Failure case analysis and robustness te...