Artificial Intelligence Jobs

Hadean · London

Lead a new AI-powered defence product team, line-managing AI/ML, simulation, infrastructure and web engineers while staying hands-on in TypeScript, React and Node. You own delivery end-to-end, hiring and people development, partnering with Product and technical leads, with hybrid working one day a week in Shoreditch.

University of Essex · Ipswich · £40,000 – £45,000 pa

A KTP Associate role embedded at Distag QCS in Ipswich, working with a large, messy ERP dataset never designed for machine learning. The post holder shapes the data, builds reliable models, and leads the introduction of data-driven decision making in a business with no existing in-house data science capability. It blends hands-on Python development with change management, communication and academic paper contributions.

Tech Recruitment Specialists Ltd · London · £38,000 – £45,000 pa

Supports the development, optimisation and deployment of AI and machine learning models, working with large datasets for preprocessing and training, and helping monitor AI applications in production. Collaborates with software engineers, product teams and data specialists, contributes to backend development and API integrations, and researches new AI frameworks. Emphasis on responsible, ethical AI with bias mitigation, transparency and fairness.

The Portfolio Group · Manchester

Set the AI vision and roadmap while staying hands-on, architecting and deploying machine learning and generative AI solutions into production. Work spans RAG, LLMs, vector search and knowledge graphs, plus building a cross-functional team and establishing AI governance. Based fully on-site in Manchester, reporting into senior leadership.

eFinancialCareers · London

Lead the build-out of a hedge fund's machine learning function, defining research strategy and hiring a team of ML researchers and engineers. Directs work in deep learning, reinforcement learning, probabilistic and time-series modelling, and generative AI, partnering with quant and investment teams on alpha generation, forecasting, portfolio construction, risk and execution. Combines hands-on technical direction with strategic leadership.

The Alan Turing Institute · London · £96,000 – £115,000 pa

Provides scientific and strategic leadership for the AI for Physical Systems research area, shaping a portfolio spanning probabilistic modelling, uncertainty quantification, efficient architectures and physics-informed machine learning. Leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers and engineers, taking methods from foundational research through to deployment on real-world resilience challenges, and builds collaborations across academia, government and industry.

Ncounter · Reading · £120,000 – £140,000 pa

Hands-on engineering leadership role in a technology consultancy serving National Security & Defence, blending people management with technical ownership. You'll lead a multidisciplinary software, platform and DevOps team, define architecture and standards across cloud-native, AI/ML and MLOps platforms, and oversee production delivery into customer environments. Distinct for requiring SC or DV clearance and defence experience while remaining close to the technology.

Relation Therapeutics · London

Lead the platform engineering team owning hybrid on-prem and cloud compute, Kubernetes clusters, MLOps infrastructure and scientific compute environments for machine learning and drug discovery. Set architectural strategy, mature CI/CD and observability, and own platform security and data governance for sensitive patient-derived data, reporting to the VP of Engineering.

Ncounter · Reading · £120,000 – £140,000 pa

Hands-on engineering leadership role overseeing a multidisciplinary team of software, platform and DevOps engineers. You'll own technical architecture and standards across cloud-native applications, AI/ML platforms and MLOps, while remaining close to delivery and shaping longer-term technical strategy for National Security and Defence customers.

University of East Anglia · Norwich · £21,805 pa

A PhD studentship developing multispectral and hyperspectral imaging combined with machine learning to detect and classify marine litter from aerial and drone-based platforms. The researcher will characterise litter material reflectance in the lab, curate imaging datasets, and build models robust to changing illumination and sensor differences, based in the Colour & Imaging Laboratory and working with CEFAS scientists.

eFinancialCareers · London

Leads the design, development and operation of high-rigor analytical and machine-learning systems across a complex, regulated financial-services estate, defining the AI/ML roadmap while remaining hands-on. Owns the full model lifecycle from feature engineering and back-testing to deployment, monitoring and incident response, with models expected to be explainable and production-grade. Works closely with engineering, data platform and product teams, mentoring other data scientists with limited line management.

Helsing · Barcelona, Spain

PhD research internship tackling open problems in spatial perception and localisation within the Spatial Intelligence Team. You survey and prototype state-of-the-art methods for scene matching, SLAM/VIO and 3D reconstruction, benchmarking ideas against real-world data and compute constraints, and report findings to a Europe-distributed team.

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Conducts AI and network data science research on molecular multi-omics and medical data to advance precision medicine and discover new therapeutics. Works with an interdisciplinary team on the flagship Human Phenotype Project and Emirati Genome Project datasets, designing algorithms, publishing papers, and helping supervise PhD and MSc students.

University of Sheffield · Sheffield · £32,080 pa

Build and evaluate machine learning models that predict Strep A outbreak risk from multiple real-world datasets, turning them into early-warning signals. Work with clinicians and an engineering team so analyses feed into a practical public health tool, with a focus on reproducible Python and/or R analysis.

University of Sheffield · Sheffield · £39,560 – £43,099 pa

Postdoctoral role applying explainable NLP and machine learning to analyse online disinformation narratives, integrate findings into a user-facing verification toolkit, and evaluate commercial chatbots and AI-generated search overviews. The researcher joins the European-funded ANTIGONE project, collaborating with multidisciplinary partners and leading publication of results in high-impact journals and conferences.

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

An interdisciplinary PhD co-designing miniaturised, low-power sensing hardware with AI for field-based wildlife monitoring, including individual recognition and automated behaviour quantification. Systems are benchmarked in controlled conditions then validated on wild jackdaws and West African field sites, spanning behavioural ecology, electronic engineering and data science.