Do you want to be part of a team that is breaking world records and changing computing?

Founded in 2015, Hadean are backed by the likes of Epic Games. We are providing the infrastructure and computational power to build, run and monetise the Metaverse. Hadean's products have helped organisations including Microsoft, Minecraft, BAE Systems, Pixelynx and the Francis Crick Institute to achieve the impossible and contribute solutions to global problems.

Our distributed cloud platform provides the foundations of web 3.0 applications for the metaverse, enterprise organisations and the defence sector. At the heart of our technology is the Hadean Platform, an intuitive and cloud-agnostic approach to build highly scalable applications.

The Role

As a research engineer at Hadean, you will report in to our Vice President, Innovation. This role is to explore and develop novel use cases, features, and directions for our technology, and for these, together with the Innovation team, to prove out viable supporting business cases. We're looking for a top-tier engineer to work with our business and product Innovation experts. You will follow a hybrid working approach with 2 days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Engineering for product-market fit tests: provide the technical implementations required for proving out the business cases for potential solutions.
• Product discovery: Provide perspectives on technical market trends, understand customer challenges, and participate in brainstorming on potential Hadean solutions to these challenges.
• Produce reports and presentations which analyse these, with reference to Hadean's current and potential future positioning
• Contribute hypotheses to test in product discovery and product-market fit, and provide your perspective during business case test prioritisation. Build the technical aspects of those tests.
• Actively participate in the team's ongoing curation and prioritisation of novel business case hypotheses from a technical perspective, and in designing tests against those hypotheses.
• Explain and discuss current projects to other engineers within the company, in order to draw on their expertise. Work with these engineers when they are brought into Innovation projects.

Your Skills

• You will work collaboratively as a technical expert in a creative cross-functional product discovery team that includes business and product members.
• Execution-focused: can act fast and decisively, particularly in technical discovery and prototyping during testing, using experience and judgement to make thoughtful and considered tradeoffs.
• Systematic but not rigid - will ensure we have the data to move ideas forward, but not a perfectionist (i.e. not cause the team to miss opportunities to accelerate the business).
• Strong opinions, weakly held - passion is important, but the humility to doubt and challenge ourselves is the key to success here. By definition, innovation requires that we disassemble the beliefs of today as we build those of tomorrow.

Your Knowledge

• Technical background, specialised in computer science, mathematics, statistics or similar.
• Experience in software engineering, desirable languages include C++, Python, or Rust. Practical experience with cloud services is desirable.
• Understanding of the latest developments in artificial intelligence, generative AI and how it can become a component of larger software bases.
• Experience developing simulators, front and back-end games systems (e.g. Unreal Engine 4 or 5, Unity, O3DE) or distributed, cloud deployed applications

Job Benefits

We make Hadean an awesome place to work with great benefits…

• The option to work from home or from our fantastic office in Shoreditch, London
• Private Health Insurance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Flexible working
• Enhanced parental leave
• 3 extra days off at Christmas (on top of our standard 25)
• L&D budget
• Quarterly business reviews with team dinners and events (including global virtual social events)
• Regularly scheduled socials
• Share options
• Quarterly awards with cash prizes

A Place For Everyone

We believe diversity drives innovation and for that reason we strongly encourage those from all backgrounds to apply for roles at Hadean. We are an equal opportunity employer and aim to build a workforce that is truly representative of the communities in which we operate and our clients.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please speak with the People team who will be happy to support you. If you have a preferred pronoun, please feel free to highlight this during the process (e.g. she/her, he/him, they/them, etc.).