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Hire ai research scientists in the UK

What ai research scientists are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Artificial Intelligence Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See AI Research Scientist jobs.

What you will pay

£46k to £230k, most around £90k

The range employers advertised for ai research scientists on Artificial Intelligence Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 8 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring ai research scientists on Artificial Intelligence Jobs right now

Isomorphic Labs 6
Anthropic 1
AI Security Institute 1

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

Isomorphic Labs · 201–500 people · Series A

Research Scientist

London
Hybrid · 3 days in office
Mid-level · manages people

Builds greenfield machine learning models and algorithms for drug discovery, designing new architectures, running experiments and scaling training and inference frameworks. Works in an interdisciplinary team of ML scientists, engineers and domain experts, with opportunities to lead projects and mentor others depending on experience.

JAX · PyTorch · TensorFlow +3

Yesterday

Earlham Institute

Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Generative AI & Digital Twins

Norwich
£39,000 – £46,500 pa
Entry level
Contract

Develops GenAI and ML methods for rare-disease Digital Twins, including biological representation learning, multi-omics imputation and perturbation-response prediction using generative models, transformers, VAEs and foundation models. Works with a mechanistic modeller and computational biologist to build hybrid mechanistic-AI systems, connecting learned representations to executable models and uncertainty-aware predictions within a CZI-funded collaboration.

Generative Models · Transformers · VAEs +4

Visa sponsorship Yesterday

PhysicsX

Applied Research Scientist (All Levels)

Singapore
Hybrid
Lead

Join a newly formed Singapore research team building physical foundation models with customers and partners. You will translate physics and engineering challenges into mathematical formulations, train deep learning and probabilistic models on large spatiotemporal and geometric datasets, and own research workstreams while publishing and presenting results internally and externally.

NumPy · SciPy · Pandas +2

Yesterday

The guide

What AI engineers are paid, by role and setup

Advertised ranges for research, applied and platform roles — and the things that move a number inside the band more than seniority does.

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