Research Engineer, Benchmarking - Member of Technical Staff

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About Us We’re living through a Cambrian explosion of intelligence: new models and new chips, each specialised for different tasks, are arriving all at once. The result is a new era for AI, one of radical heterogeneity. Callosum is the Intelligent Systems Company. We believe the next generation of AI won't be defined by any single model or chip, but by intelligent systems in which hardware and intelligence co-evolve. We are building the infrastructure that unifies heterogeneous compute across the full stack. This opens a new axis of scaling intelligence: a dynamic system that tailors itself to what each workload actually needs, whether that's speed, cost, precision, or whatever unit comes next. The last era scaled on a different bet: one bigger model, more of the same chip, more data. That bet is running into structural limits. Frontier models offer extraordinary capability at unsustainable cost, one that today's monolithic infrastructure was never designed to serve. Our founding principle is that intelligence comes from many specialised systems working together, not from any single component. We build the software orchestration layer that co-evolves models, workflows and silicon into one system, delivering inference tailored to every workload, and demonstrating orders-of-magnitude leaps in capability and cost. Because our software spans the full stack, our engineering team works directly with heterogeneous accelerators and frontier silicon, including Cerebras, d-Matrix, Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, Normal Computing, Tenstorrent, GreatSky, and Mixx. We are not stopping at today's chips: each new generation of silicon unlocks algorithms that couldn't run before, and we intend to be first to them, every time. If we get it right, it will belong to everyone building on it - not to any single vendor. In our latest funding round, we raised $100M, led by Atomico with participation from Plural, DCVC and the UK Sovereign AI Fund’s first investment. With this, we are building the infrastructure for the next era of intelligence. We are engineers and scientists based in London, working across the full depth of the stack. We are curious, intellectually honest, and building what doesn't exist yet. If you thrive on uncharted territory and are energised by the scale of the challenge, we'd love to hear from you. About the Role Choosing between algorithmic strategies for multi-step LLM work is a measurement problem, and most teams solve it badly: comparisons run case by case, by whoever needs them that week, on whatever task is closest to hand. That doesn't scale, and it doesn't hold up to outside scrutiny - from a customer, or from a reviewer. Callosum needs one benchmarking system: reproducible, contamination-controlled, and trusted enough to be the evidence that decides which approach ships. This role owns that system. You will build a harness that measures task success, quality, and robustness across motifs, agent topologies, and decomposition strategies, grounded in execution - real commits, real traces, sandboxed grading - rather than self-reported or model-graded scores. The results become the proof points we show customers, the evidence behind the benchmarks we co-publish, and the basis on which an approach ships or doesn't. This is a research hire that builds. We expect the rigour of a strong evaluation paper applied to a production system, and the engineering ability to design, build, and curate it yourself rather than hand it off. What You'll Build • Design and build a unified system for evaluating agentic and algorithmic solutions - task success, quality, and robustness across motifs, agent topologies, and decomposition strategies, on workloads that match what customers actually run. Cost per resolved task is an outcome you track, not the obj

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