37 jobs for “software engineer”
Randstad Technologies Recruitment London £432 – £484 pd
Design and deploy production-grade Generative AI workflows and backend security guardrails for a global financial institution's AI Centre of Excellence. The role blends Python/Java engineering, AWS and Azure cloud pipelines with Airflow orchestration, plus roughly 20-25% frontend work on guardrail interfaces, alongside production support and ML evaluation metrics.
University of Southampton Southampton £41,064 – £45,064 pa
Embed physics-informed generative AI tools into a marine vessel concept, generation and evaluation platform as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Compute Maritime Ltd and the University of Southampton. Develop and validate fast physics-informed models for ship resistance, propulsion and energy efficiency using CFD and benchmark data, and integrate multidisciplinary optimisation methods into the NeuralShipper platform.
DCV Technologies Windsor £550 – £600 pd
Hands-on contract role designing, testing and optimising production-grade LLM prompts for chatbots, voice bots, IVR and messaging channels. Involves building agentic AI workflows with tool calling and multi-step reasoning, implementing RAG and evaluation frameworks, and adding guardrails for privacy, PII and hallucination reduction. Works with engineering, product and CX teams on a major digital transformation programme.
DCV Technologies Manchester £550 – £600 pd
Contract role building and deploying production AI/ML systems, with hands-on work in Python, PyTorch and Google Cloud Platform. The engineer develops Generative AI solutions using transformer architectures, RAG and agent frameworks like ReAct, then packages and serves models via Docker, KServe and Vertex AI endpoints. Responsibilities also cover MLOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, model registries, monitoring, drift detection and GPU cost optimisation.
University of Oxford Oxford £49,119 – £59,955 pa
Leads a research strand on Bayesian methods for evaluating and monitoring AI systems, publishing findings, running the lab's open-source software, producing policy-facing outputs, and guiding research assistants and students. Based in the Bayesian Governance Lab within Oxford's Department of Engineering Science, in collaboration with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, on a two-year fixed-term post.
Matchtech Cambridgeshire £450 – £650 pd
Contract Python developer role focused on building and maintaining software for integration with a defence cloud environment. Day-to-day work spans data and AI, automation and tooling, and DevOps, using Red Hat OpenShift, Quay, HashiCorp Vault, Tekton Pipelines, GitHub, ArgoCD and SonarQube within agile teams. Requires UK Eyes Only clearance eligibility and is based on-site/hybrid in Cambridgeshire.
University of Exeter Exeter £21,805 pa
Investigates whether small language models running on local workstations or on-premises servers can serve as reliable agents for bounded business workflows. The student will distil agentic capability from large teacher models via harness optimisation and fine-tuning on execution traces, measuring reliability, cost, latency and data locality, and releasing open tooling for UK SMEs.
ECM Selection London £46,000 – £52,000 pa
Join a national security team building robust AI agents and realistic training environments to defend critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Day-to-day work spans realistic network simulation environments, novel agent architectures, and evaluation tasks, requiring strong Python, Linux and git skills plus a research mindset. Hybrid role with just one day per week in the central London office.
The University of Manchester Manchester £48,337 – £59,390 pa
Develops and applies machine-learning and AI methods to protein engineering and enzyme design, analysing large biological, chemical and experimental datasets and building predictive models and computational tools. Works within an interdisciplinary group spanning the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, providing ML and data-science expertise, training and support to postdocs and students, and contributing to publications and funding bids.
Queen's University Belfast Belfast £42,972 – £51,270 pa
Conducts research in hardware-accelerated custom computing within QUB's Centre for Secure Information Technology, contributing to the European RIGOLETTO initiative on an open RISC-V automotive hardware platform for software-defined vehicles. Involves FPGA design, CPU architecture work, and collaboration with academic and industrial partners.
Cranfield University Bedford £38,655 – £46,492 pa
Integrates four strands of AI research into a single flight-deck assistant and validates it with airline pilots in Cranfield's Future Systems Simulator. Builds the software platform and automated test framework for real-time operation, creates flight scenarios, runs simulator trials and publishes findings within an EU Horizon Europe project.
University of Hertfordshire Hatfield £39,560 – £46,970 pa
Postdoctoral role delivering research on innovative AI/ML algorithms for predictive modelling and optimisation of agricultural applications from heterogeneous data, as part of an Innovate UK-funded collaborative project. Involves developing AI/ML software tools, data management and analysis, supporting the Principal Investigator on project milestones, and contributing to publications and reports.
University of Exeter Exeter £21,805 pa
Develops a resource-aware AI framework for 2D and 3D medical imaging that adapts computation to case complexity, clinical risk and available hardware. Investigates where unnecessary computation occurs, builds a configurable model family, and validates it on population-scale abdominal MRI (UK Biobank) and near-patient dermatology imaging, with safety assessed across patient subgroups.
eFinancialCareers London £450 – £550 pd
Develops and maintains C# software and algorithms that process incoming news streams, turning financial and market data into accessible information for research and investment decisions. Also explores artificial intelligence to enhance information processing and contributes to the wider software infrastructure supporting Global Research services. Works alongside Python-based tooling within a consultancy team serving financial services clients.
King's College London London £45,031 – £52,514 pa
Designs, builds and evaluates AI-enabled evidence synthesis tools and pipelines for the METIUS programme, writing production-quality Python code and onboarding consortium partners. Runs methodological and evaluation studies on the reliability and usability of AI-assisted synthesis methods, publishing the results, and contributes to the Solace-AI project on climate-health emergencies. Works alongside software developers, data scientists and evidence synthesis specialists.
