Latest AI Research Scientist Jobs

Senior Software Engineer, AI Inference Systems

Design and optimize high-performance AI inference systems for large-scale models on NVIDIA GPUs. Develop and enhance inference frameworks like vLLM, optimize GPU kernels and compilers, and build scalable scheduling solutions across multi-node, multi-cloud environments. Contribute to benchmarking standards such as MLPerf and integrate cutting-edge research into production software to advance the state of accelerated computing.

NVIDIA Germany PLN 292,500 – PLN 650,000 pa

Remote Permanent

Senior Software Engineer, AI Inference Systems

This role involves building and optimizing high-performance AI inference systems for large-scale models, focusing on GPU kernel optimization, compiler development, and distributed inference frameworks. You'll work on cutting-edge technologies like vLLM, speculative decoding, and multi-node GPU orchestration, while contributing to industry benchmarks like MLPerf. The position blends deep systems engineering with research to advance the efficiency and scalability of AI inference.

NVIDIA PLN 292,500 – PLN 650,000 pa

Remote Permanent

Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations

This role involves identifying and mitigating emerging AI safety risks, developing new methodologies, and collaborating with experts across various domains to ensure the safety and alignment of OpenAI’s models. The researcher will play a critical role in defining best practices for AI safety and contributing to the company’s mission of building safe AGI.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Legal Fellow - Human Frontier Collective (UK)

This role involves collaborating on high-impact AI research projects with leading legal and technical experts, focusing on evaluating and improving generative AI systems in legal domains such as compliance, litigation, and contract analysis. Fellows contribute to real-world scenarios, provide regulatory and legal feedback, and co-author research publications. The position offers flexible, remote engagement within an interdisciplinary network advancing human-centered AI.

Scale AI United Kingdom

Remote Freelance Flexible

Medical Fellow - Human Frontier Collective (UK)

This role involves applying clinical expertise to evaluate and shape advanced generative AI systems in healthcare contexts. Fellows will design clinical scenarios, assess AI decision-making for safety and accuracy, and contribute to research publications. The position emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, structured feedback, and advancing human-centered AI in real-world medical applications.

Scale AI United Kingdom

Remote Freelance Flexible

Senior Security Researcher - Agent Workflow

This role involves researching and prototyping agentic AI workflows within cybersecurity, exploring how autonomous systems can enhance threat detection and response. You'll collaborate with product, engineering, and machine learning teams to translate innovative concepts into functional prototypes. The position emphasizes open-ended research, deep product understanding, and applying generative AI to real-world security challenges.

Darktrace Cambridge, CB2 3BJ, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Security Researcher - Agent Workflow

This role involves researching and prototyping agentic AI workflows within cybersecurity, exploring how autonomous systems can enhance threat detection and response across Darktrace’s platform. You'll collaborate with product, engineering, and ML teams to translate novel AI concepts into functional prototypes, while maintaining deep expertise in both AI advancements and security applications. The position emphasizes innovation, cross-functional coordination, and applied research in a real-world cyber defense context.

Darktrace London, UB8 1LQ, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Principal ML Platform Engineer

Design and evolve the ML platform infrastructure for training, serving, and deploying generative models at scale. Build reliable, automated systems and internal tooling to reduce operational overhead for researchers and engineers. Work across distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud environments to improve scalability, observability, and developer experience in a high-growth AI company.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

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Staff Robotics Engineer, AV Core

As a Staff Robotics Engineer, you will lead the technical direction and delivery of fault detection and fallback systems for driverless vehicles. You will collaborate with machine learning experts, design robust systems, and integrate them into the shared driving stack, ensuring the overall robustness of the robot system.

Wayve London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

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Staff ML Engineer Gaia

As a Staff ML Engineer on the Gaia team, you will lead and execute large-scale training runs for video foundation models, contribute to model architecture and training strategies, and improve synthetic scenario generation capabilities. You will work closely with research, applications, simulation engineering, and cloud/infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end impact and provide technical leadership through mentorship and setting high engineering standards.

Wayve London, United Kingdom

PhD Studentship: Adaptive Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: Bridging the Global Digital Language Divide

This PhD studentship focuses on developing adaptive large language models that learn efficiently from limited data by leveraging linguistic structure. The research will design AI architectures that allocate resources based on a language’s grammatical and typological complexity, rather than corpus size, and will be tested across diverse low-resource languages. The candidate will collaborate with native speaker communities to ensure cultural appropriateness and robustness beyond standard metrics.

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, Northern England, United Kingdom £31 pa

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Infrastructure & Platform Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA)

This role involves designing and implementing production-grade machine learning and AI workloads on the Databricks platform, with a strong focus on GenAI, MLOps, and LLMOps. The individual will guide enterprise customers through technical challenges, build MVPs, and lead deep-dive sessions during sales cycles. They will also contribute to product roadmaps, create technical content, and drive AI thought leadership through conferences and hackathons.

Databricks London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Business Development Researcher

This role involves gathering, verifying, and maintaining prospect and customer data to support business development and sales activities. The researcher will use AI tools, CRM systems, and market intelligence to identify new commercial opportunities and improve data quality. Collaboration with marketing and sales teams is key to supporting lead generation and strategic initiatives.

Hawk 3 Talent Solutions Kelleythorpe, East Riding Of Yorkshire, YO25 9DW, United Kingdom £30,000 – £35,000 pa

Senior MLOps Engineer

This role involves building and maintaining MLOps infrastructure to productionise advanced AI and computer vision models, from distributed training to deployment on cloud and edge devices. The engineer will optimise inference, manage model registries, and develop CI/CD and monitoring pipelines while working closely with research and software teams. The position requires strong hands-on skills in Python, containerisation, and GPU-accelerated systems, particularly NVIDIA Jetson platforms.

MFK Recruitment Brentford, London, TW8 9DE, United Kingdom £75,000 – £100,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Manager - PE

Leads private equity AI due diligence and value creation projects, serving as primary client and internal stakeholder liaison. Drives technical assessments of data assets, IP, and AI maturity for investment decisions, while mentoring cross-functional teams and identifying new business opportunities. Focuses on translating complex technical risks into strategic investment insights under tight transaction timelines.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent