Latest Research Scientist Jobs

Senior Developer Relations Manager – Agentic Healthcare AI

This role involves serving as a technical advisor and champion for the developer ecosystem in Healthcare and Lifesciences, accelerating workloads by integrating NVIDIA’s AI and computing platforms, and fostering co-innovation with partners. Responsibilities include technical enablement, ecosystem mapping, and cross-functional collaboration to drive adoption and solve real-world challenges.

NVIDIA Switzerland

Senior Solutions Architect, Higher Education and Research

Act as a trusted technical advisor to academic and research institutions, driving adoption of NVIDIA's accelerated computing and AI technologies. Collaborate with researchers to integrate NVIDIA frameworks into large-scale projects, deliver training and workshops, and translate research needs into prototypical solutions. Focus on multimodal and physical AI, with deep engagement in GPU-accelerated computing and joint research initiatives.

NVIDIA Reading, United Kingdom

Research Engineer - Web Crawlers

Build and scale distributed web crawlers to source high-quality, multilingual data from the open web for training frontier AI models. Design targeted pipelines for audio, video, and text, and develop tooling for researchers to monitor and access crawled data efficiently. Focus on reliability, content extraction, deduplication, and compliance at web scale.

ElevenLabs United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Research Associate in Computer Vision and Environmental Modelling

The role involves developing advanced AI and remote sensing methods for forest monitoring and illegal logging detection, focusing on open-set recognition and deep learning frameworks for spatio-spectral-temporal UAV imagery. The postholder will work across the research pipeline, from data processing to model deployment, and contribute to an interdisciplinary project involving computer vision, machine learning, and geospatial analysis.

University of Sheffield Sheffield, Hybrid, Northern England, United Kingdom £38 – £41 pa

Contract

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling - London

This role involves owning critical parts of Anthropic's production pretraining pipeline for large language models, focusing on reliability, performance optimization, and debugging across hardware, networking, and training dynamics. The engineer will run experiments to improve training efficiency, respond to incidents during model launches, and collaborate closely with research and systems teams. It’s a high-impact, operational role blending deep technical engineering with empirical research in a fast-paced, safety-focused AI environment.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £260,000 – £630,000 pa

Research Engineer, RL Scaling Science

This role involves designing and running large-scale reinforcement learning experiments to understand scaling effects across model size, compute, and task horizon. The engineer will build benchmarks for long-horizon RL, debug system-level issues that emerge at scale, and translate validated research findings directly into production training pipelines. The position sits at the intersection of research and systems engineering, requiring deep empirical rigor and close collaboration with both research and infrastructure teams.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £375,000 – £640,000 pa

Research Engineer

As a Research Engineer at ElevenLabs, you will work on the cutting edge of audio AI, training and improving state-of-the-art models, and designing rigorous benchmarks to evaluate model performance. You will collaborate with a high-velocity, impact-driven team that values excellence and innovation.

ElevenLabs United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Senior Research Engineer - Interactive Avatars

Develop and advance AI-driven interactive avatars using diffusion models, focusing on real-time video generation, audio conditioning, and contextual responsiveness. Work within a research-forward team to translate cutting-edge generative AI into scalable product features. Responsibilities include improving lip-sync accuracy, motion realism, and building evaluation frameworks for long-form interactive video.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Principal Research Engineer

Lead end-to-end technical development of large-scale generative video models, spanning pre-training and post-training stages, with direct impact on product. Bridge research and engineering to accelerate the deployment of cutting-edge avatar video generation. Focus on building high-resolution, long-form human-centric video models using proprietary data pipelines and distributed training infrastructure.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistical Machine Learning for Genomics

This role involves developing and applying novel statistical and machine learning methods to large-scale genomic and health data. You will work on projects related to human genetics and evolution, focusing on areas like genomic language models, federated learning, and multi-trait methods. Responsibilities include implementing reproducible research software, evaluating statistical properties, and collaborating with researchers.

University of Oxford Oxford, South East England, United Kingdom £39 – £47 pa

On-site Contract

Expression of Interest - Research Director

This role involves leading research on advanced AI risks and governance, collaborating with government and industry stakeholders, and shaping public-interest research. The position offers unique access to pre-release AI models, operational support, and opportunities for publication and external collaboration.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom

ML / LLM Research Engineer

This role involves hands-on engineering and research into the security and behavior of Large Language Models, exploring how information is processed and whether models present risks in secure environments. You will work on practical experiments, turning academic research into real-world applications, primarily using Python.

Ncounter Manchester, United Kingdom £80,000 – £90,000 pa

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

This role involves designing and building scalable development and production platforms that power OpenAI's core products like ChatGPT and the API. The engineer will work on Kubernetes clusters, cloud abstractions, networking, and infrastructure deployment systems, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability. The position includes on-call responsibilities and emphasizes a culture of inclusion, safety, and technical excellence in a fast-paced environment.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Forward Deployed Engineer - London (Spanish-speaking)

This role involves leading end-to-end technical deployments of cutting-edge AI models for strategic customers, from prototyping to production. The engineer will build full-stack systems, deeply integrate with customer teams, and translate field feedback into product and model improvements. Success is measured by real-world adoption and measurable impact on customer workflows.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

This role involves working on complex R&D projects in speech technology, collaborating with a diverse team of engineers, and staying current with the latest developments in machine learning. The focus is on training and deploying advanced speech recognition models, with an emphasis on innovation and best engineering practices.

Speechmatics Cambridge, United Kingdom