Artificial Intelligence Jobs

University of Exeter · Exeter · £21,805 pa

Develops and evaluates AI, machine learning and deep learning methods for grading retinal fundus images to detect diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataract and AMD. Works with large datasets including EyePACS, UK Biobank and NHS sources, comparing algorithm accuracy against NHS clinicians and optimising explainable models for clinical trust.

Local Pensions Partnership Administration · Preston · £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Lead AI strategy, governance and delivery across a major UK pension administration organisation, working with the CTO and executive team to identify and scale AI opportunities. Establish responsible AI frameworks, build and manage a specialist AI team, and oversee adoption of tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Civica UPM and UiPath. The role combines strategic leadership, risk assurance and supplier engagement to drive measurable service improvements.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Deliver AI safety research for the ARIADNE consortium, a Wellcome-funded generative AI system conducting clinical interviews to assess psychosis risk. Develop LLM supervisor modules that detect delusional reinforcement and inappropriate responses to suicidal symptoms, evaluating them in controlled testbeds with simulated patients and LLM-as-judge scoring calibrated against clinicians.

University of Birmingham · Birmingham · £21,805 pa

Develops a physics-informed AI framework to design and optimise alternative cooling mechanisms and refrigeration cycles, integrating thermodynamic modelling, machine learning and multi-objective optimisation. Experimental work validates selected combinations, with scope to balance computational and lab effort. Based in the School of Chemical Engineering alongside sustainable cooling and energy storage research centres.

University of Nottingham · Nottingham · £21,805 pa

A fully funded four-year PhD developing thermodynamic and transient models of hybrid energy systems combining gas turbines, carbon capture, biomass gasification and solar thermal. The work covers techno-economic and life cycle assessment plus AI-driven optimisation and control, with a three-month industrial or policy placement through the Net2Zero CDT.

eFinancialCareers · London

Leads a global legal and professional services firm's AI and data agenda, translating strategy into a delivery programme that moves initiatives from experimentation to sustainable adoption. Works across legal, fiduciary and business services divisions on productivity, decision-making and client outcomes, reporting to the Director of Service Innovation and managing AI and data delivery teams through matrix leadership.

University of Cambridge · Cambridge · £33,662 – £46,970 pa

Lead a workstream within the IMPACT-OC European consortium, building a multi-agent AI system for ovarian cancer that spans imaging, genomics, histopathology and clinical records with privacy-preserving federated learning. The role is jointly based in the Department of Radiology and the Early Cancer Institute, combining multimodal AI pipelines, digital twin technology and clinician-facing deployment across eight partner institutions.

Databricks · United Kingdom

Customer-facing technical authority on Generative AI, LLMs and applied ML for digital-native and startup accounts across EMEA. Shapes architectures, builds hands-on proofs of concept and reference implementations on Databricks (Mosaic AI, MLflow, Model Serving, Vector Search, Unity Catalog), and leads fine-tuning and evaluation engagements on open models. Also mentors the field engineering organisation and represents the company externally through talks and blogs.

University of Oxford · Oxford · £21,805 pa

Investigates how the rapid growth of AI can be supported by more sustainable, circular hardware and infrastructure, linking computational performance to the physical materials and equipment required. Develops scenarios for UK AI and data centre growth, mapping hardware requirements to critical raw materials and modelling how lifetime extension, reuse, repair and remanufacture could cut environmental impacts. Based in the Circular Economy and Sustainability Lab, contributing to the Circular Electricals and Electronics Project.

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.

University of Surrey · Guildford · £21,805 pa

Develops next-generation federated machine unlearning algorithms that deliver verifiable, robust erasure without harming model performance or participant privacy. Research spans certified unlearning with formal guarantees, robustness to adversarial relearning, federated-specific benchmarks, and scalable unlearning for foundation models, supervised by Dr Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmao and Dr Frank Guerin.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £70,000 – £80,000 pa

Build, scale and maintain backend services including APIs, workflow engines and data services, integrating Java/Spring components with Python-based AI services. Work across AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability and security best practices in a collaborative, fast-paced product team.

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment · London · £120,000 – £150,000 pa

Lead and build a data science function within a fintech, owning strategy across risk, affordability and lending decisioning. Design, build and deploy machine learning models using credit risk, Open Banking and customer data, working with Product, Engineering and Credit Risk teams. Requires hands-on Python, SQL and MLOps experience plus credit risk modelling in UK consumer lending.

Scale AI · London

Leads a forward-deployed engineering team acting as the technical bridge between AI capabilities and strategic enterprise customers. Involves designing custom integrations, ETL pipelines and production AI agents, plus prompt engineering, RAG systems and evaluation frameworks, deployed within customer security and compliance boundaries.

Isomorphic Labs · Cambridge, United States

Lead the safety assessment strategy for drug discovery projects from inception to regulatory submission, designing screening cascades and mechanistic experiments for small molecules and biologics. Partner with machine learning researchers to build predictive toxicology models and manage CRO relationships for outsourced wet-lab data generation, while mentoring junior scientists.