Artificial Intelligence Jobs

• Exeter
• Entry level
• Contract

A doctoral research project investigating whether repeat photography, citizen science and machine learning can robustly monitor ecological change in intertidal habitats. The researcher will combine field data collection, statistical analysis and image-based AI methods, validating approaches against the MarClim 25-year time series across 100 UK sites.

MarClim

• Exeter
• On-site
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops explainable, trustworthy machine-learning models for early dementia detection, integrating multimodal data such as neuroimaging, cognitive assessments, genetics and biomarkers. Uses latent knowledge-enhanced representations, vision-language agentic frameworks and uncertainty quantification, with clinician evaluation of bias and fairness. Validated through a longitudinal multimodal prediction and explanation system.

MRI · PET · ADNI +2

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead medicinal chemistry on drug discovery projects from initiation to clinical candidate selection, either as Project Lead or Medicinal Chemistry Lead. Partner closely with ML scientists to refine the AI drug design platform, manage CRO resources, and generate IP. Some roles include line managing 2-4 chemists.

AlphaFold

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead computational drug design programs from initiation through to clinical candidate selection, applying AI-first approaches and shaping the company's ML drug design engine. Work cross-functionally with ML, biology and chemistry teams, with optional people management of 2-3 computational chemists.

REINVENT · AlphaFold

• London
• Senior

Serve as the trusted technical ML and AI expert for enterprise customers, architecting production-grade ML and GenAI workloads on the Databricks platform. The role spans RAG architectures, agentic systems, MLOps lifecycle management, and cloud-native integration, while mentoring colleagues and influencing the product roadmap. It combines deep hands-on engineering with customer-facing technical sales support.

Databricks · AWS · Azure +7

• Liverpool
• £48,337 – £61,165 pa
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead and coordinate the AI and machine learning workstream of a materials discovery research group, managing teams applying LLMs, machine reasoning, knowledge representation and optimisation to scientific problems. The role also involves developing AI methods directly, securing national computing resources, supporting grant applications and publications, and mentoring PhD students and postdocs alongside chemistry, robotics and automation colleagues.

• London
• Senior · manages people

Owns the optimisation and strategy of transaction monitoring controls across Barclays UK and International, tuning TM systems and financial crime controls. Uses Python and SQL to assess control performance, identify trends and drive improvements, working within risk, governance and regulatory frameworks. Option to be based in London or Glasgow.

• Gateshead
• £25,900 pa
• Junior

Join an educational software support company to help build an AI Agent, working across data preprocessing, exploratory analysis, model fine-tuning and implementation of machine learning algorithms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver scalable solutions while keeping up with the latest AI advancements. Aimed at early-career candidates with no prior experience required.

• South Shields
• £25,900 pa
• Junior

An early-career role building an AI Agent for an educational software support company, covering data preprocessing, exploratory analysis, model fine-tuning and implementing machine learning algorithms. The position works with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver scalable solutions, and is aimed at someone new to the industry with no prior experience required.

• Huddersfield
• Hybrid
• £35,000 – £45,000 pa
• Junior

Supports AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and automation for software and machine learning workloads, including packaging, versioning and deploying ML models. Works alongside software and AI engineers to keep development, testing and production environments consistent, monitoring pipelines and fixing issues. Suited to an early-career engineer with cloud, scripting and Git foundations and an interest in MLOps.

AWS · GitHub · Git +5

• Manchester
• £550 – £600 pd
• Contract

Contract data science role focused on building and evaluating AI/ML solutions on Google Cloud Platform, including classical machine learning models and LLM-based applications. Day-to-day work spans prompt engineering, RAG concepts, experiment design, model evaluation and documentation, alongside requirements gathering, code review and troubleshooting with project managers and developers.

GCP

• London
• Hybrid · 1–2 days in office
• £75,000 – £85,000 pa
• Senior

Owns the infrastructure, deployment and operational excellence of production machine learning systems within a growing AI and data organisation serving the public sector. Builds ML orchestration pipelines with Dagster, Airflow or Prefect, runs Kubernetes and Terraform/Bicep infrastructure, and maintains CI/CD and observability for models and LLM-powered solutions, working closely with data scientists and client-facing teams.

Dagster · Airflow · Prefect +5

• London
• On-site
• £90,000 – £120,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Design and build full-stack AI-powered product features, working across front-end, back-end, AI and infrastructure. Develop and optimise LLM, computer vision and agent-based systems, plus evaluation, prompt engineering and fine-tuning frameworks. High-ownership role shaping product direction and AI strategy in a scaling financial crime prevention start-up.

TypeScript · React · Node.js +1

• London
• Hybrid
• £120,000 – £150,000 pa
• Director · manages people

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.

Python · SQL

• Manchester
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £80,000 – £90,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Hands-on research engineering role investigating the internal behaviour and security of large language models, turning academic ideas into practical experiments in Python. Work spans model internals, data movement, training risk and safe deployment, alongside production-quality ML engineering, testing and code reviews. Requires active SC clearance and around three days per week on secure sites.