Latest researcher Jobs

Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

This role involves owning and scaling Kubernetes control plane components to support Anthropic's large-scale AI training infrastructure. You'll extend the scheduler for topology-aware and gang scheduling of ML workloads, operate core cluster services like service discovery, and ensure high availability across multi-cloud accelerator fleets. The work is deeply technical, focusing on reliability and performance at extreme scale in collaboration with research and inference teams.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £325,000 – £485,000 pa

Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Clinical Development, Rare and Neglected Diseases)

This role involves working with nonprofits, research institutes, and academic medical centers to deploy AI in clinical trials and drug repurposing for rare and neglected diseases. Responsibilities include designing and reviewing clinical trial protocols, building tools for drug repurposing, and developing reusable infrastructure.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £225,000 – £255,000 pa

Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - Platform Engineering

This role involves building and maintaining the core platform that underpins ElevenLabs' products, focusing on user management, permissions, and resource management. You will work closely with sales, customer teams, and other engineering teams to ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and meets the needs of both internal and external users.

ElevenLabs United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Fullstack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - Flows

This role involves owning the 'produce once, distribute everywhere' workflow for ElevenLabs' Studio platform, shaping specs through RFCs, and building complex data structures for multi-language and multi-format video production. The position is greenfield, requiring strong backend skills and product instincts.

ElevenLabs United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Research Scientist (Machine Learning), London

A Research Scientist in machine learning will develop novel deep learning models and algorithms to accelerate drug discovery, working in an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers. The role involves designing architectures, training models, and applying ML to complex biological and chemical problems, with opportunities to lead projects and mentor others depending on experience.

Isomorphic Labs London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

ML Research Engineer, London

Develop and optimise cutting-edge AI models at the intersection of machine learning and drug discovery, translating research into scalable, production-ready systems. Work closely with scientists to build predictive and generative models using advanced deep learning techniques, with a focus on innovation in computational biology and chemistry. Contribute to a collaborative, interdisciplinary team advancing a digital biology platform for transformative medicine development.

Isomorphic Labs London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

AI Research Engineer

This role involves building, evaluating, and improving AI systems across large language models, agentic workflows, and computer vision. You'll work closely with engineering and product teams to develop robust AI solutions for financial crime compliance, with significant ownership over AI development and the chance to influence product direction.

Rise Technical Recruitment London, City And County Of the City Of London, United Kingdom £80,000 – £120,000 pa

Staff Research Engineer - Multimodal Generative Modelling

This role involves developing advanced multimodal generative models that enable natural, real-time conversational interactions by integrating text, voice, and video. The engineer will lead research and implementation of low-latency, emotionally expressive AI systems, working across pretraining, post-training, and production deployment. Key focus areas include neural codecs, diffusion models, and streaming architectures to enhance realism and interactivity in Synthesia's AI video platform.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety

This role involves leading high-impact AI safety research, focusing on red teaming and evaluations for frontier models in high-risk domains such as cybersecurity and national security. The scientist will drive technical research from concept to publication, shape safety strategies, and support real-world deployment of responsible AI systems through collaboration with government and commercial partners.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

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

Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist in AI for Outbreak Response

This role involves developing and validating machine learning models for disease forecasting and scenario modelling, working with public health partners in Nigeria and the DRC to integrate these models into existing workflows. The position is part of the ORCAS project, focusing on AI-driven tools for infectious disease outbreak response.

University of Oxford Oxford, South East England, United Kingdom £49 – £58 pa

On-site Contract

Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer

Develop and scale generative and predictive machine learning models for cellular behaviour using multi-omic biological data. Build robust distributed training and inference systems, bridging ML research and production deployment in close collaboration with scientists. Optimize performance across compute, memory, and I/O while advancing core ML infrastructure in a highly interdisciplinary environment.

Relation Therapeutics London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Machine Learning Research Engineer

This role involves prototyping, building, and implementing new AI approaches, as well as evaluating their quality and efficiency. You'll work in a dynamic R&D team at a leading AI company, focusing on data-driven solutions to AI problems.

Luminance Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in Control Engineering- Sustainable and Circular AI Systems

The role involves researching sustainable and circular AI systems, focusing on the environmental impacts of hardware and infrastructure. The student will develop models to connect AI performance with hardware requirements and explore circular economy strategies to reduce material dependencies.

University of Oxford Oxford, South East England, United Kingdom £21 pa

Contract

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