Median experience: 9 years. We don't run a delivery pyramid — every engagement is staffed with senior researchers and engineers from the bench. If your name's on the SOW, your hands are on the code.
Electrical engineer. A decade building AI systems in industry before founding UPLABS in 2022. Author of the Q1 2026 Atlas report. Co-founder on every venture in the cohort.
Foundation models & ML systems. Previously DeepMind infra and a stint at a frontier lab. Leads the lab's evaluation harness and the cross-cohort MLOps pipeline.
Embedded systems & sensor fusion. Designed the AvA reference board and the controller that ships in Mutfak.ai. Runs the Lisbon marine ops bench.
Underwater perception & controls. Lead engineer on Poseidon's first production fleet; runs the Lisbon office.
Plant biology + ML. Co-founded Babylonian. Owns the per-bench learner architecture across 9 crops.
Signal processing & classifier design. Lead on Sentinel's 97%-accuracy acoustic stack and the synthetic-data pipeline.
Chemical engineer turned ML practitioner. Co-founded ChemSynth. Owns the T5 fine-tune and the user-facing platform.
Manufacturing veteran. Co-founded Mutfak.ai. Brings two decades of kitchen-equipment OEM relationships.
Bills don't pay themselves. Nadya makes sure the lab has runway, payroll, and the right people on the bench.
We hire when the work demands it. No graduate scheme, no recruitment funnel — just open roles, posted when real.