Advice on seeking grad work

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So I'm currently seeking graduate software engineering positions, and it strikes me as though the kind of work I'd like to get into would in general be somewhere where every so often I'd have the opportunity to work on small prototypes and do a bit of research - but most of the obvious roles with large companies all focus on maintaining large applications, which is fine and something I'm capable of, it's just that I think I'd derive more satisfaction from working on something where I have something free-standing to show off once in a while.

That said any suggestions would be welcome - companies working in visual effects or computer vision would be good, also. I quite enjoy the stuff we're doing in AI at the moment, so anything where I could reason about graphs could be good for me. I have a reasonable amount of experience (for an undergrad at least :p) in C, C++, OpenCV, embedded programming, Java and Linux (Gentoo). I also have a technical telephone interview with Google in March (wish me luck!), but due to personal reasons I can't risk not finding a grad position for after university.

So, OcUK, do you have any suggestions? Maybe any interesting startups I might not have heard of? Bigger companies that I might not have thought of (my industrial placement was at an engineering company who produce food processing machines so I'm open to that kind of thing)?

Thanks! :)
 
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