Latest AI Research Scientist Jobs

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Head of AI

As Head of AI, you will lead the development and implementation of AI strategies, governance, and capabilities at LPPA, a leading pension administration company. You will work closely with the CTO and executive team to identify and deliver AI opportunities that enhance operational efficiency, service quality, and member outcomes. Key responsibilities include building the AI team, establishing governance frameworks, and fostering AI adoption across the organization.

Local Pensions Partnership Administration Preston, North West England, United Kingdom £90,000 – £100,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent

Principal Research Scientist - AI Safety

Lead and shape the scientific research agenda for AI safety, focusing on large language models and safety-critical systems. Conduct high-impact research, publish in top-tier venues, and guide red-teaming and evaluation efforts in high-risk domains such as cybersecurity and CBRN. Mentor researchers and position the organisation as a thought leader in responsible AI development.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

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

Senior Research Scientist - AI Safety Evaluations

Lead the development of advanced AI safety evaluations to assess risks in critical domains like CBRN and cybersecurity. Conduct original research from concept to publication, shape methodological strategy, and collaborate with frontier labs and government stakeholders. Focus on rigorous, scientifically grounded approaches to red-teaming, robustness testing, and evaluation design.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Alignment Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

This role involves researching and developing methods to detect misalignment in advanced AI systems, conducting pre- and post-deployment evaluations, and sharing findings with AI companies and governments. You will also contribute to public research and build tools to improve alignment evaluation processes.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom

Staff Research Scientist- Interactive Avatars

As a Staff Research Scientist, you will work on the cutting edge of generative AI, specifically focusing on interactive avatars. Your responsibilities include setting the research direction, advancing the state of the art in perceptual layers, and building models for natural, real-time conversations. You will lead a team, mentor junior researchers, and collaborate with data and engineering teams to turn research into product capabilities.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom £50,000 pa

Remote Permanent

Research Scientist - Interactive Avatars

As a Research Scientist, you will join a team of 40+ researchers and engineers to develop cutting-edge generative AI models for interactive avatars. Your focus will be on advancing the state of the art in dyadic interaction modeling, building models that can hold natural, real-time conversations, and generating contextually appropriate reactions to user inputs.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Expression of Interest: Next-generation Agentic Controls and Forensics (Technical Roles)

This role involves developing technical frameworks for agentic incident response, controls, and forensics in advanced AI systems. You'll work on scalable approaches to monitor, detect, and respond to risks from next-generation AI agents, leveraging pre-release access to frontier models and compute resources. The position offers high autonomy, collaboration with global AI experts, and direct influence on AI governance and security policy.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom £65,000 – £145,000 pa

[Expression of Interest] Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment - London

Conduct experimental research on AI safety, focusing on alignment and robustness of advanced systems. Develop and test techniques like AI debate and jailbreak evaluation, contributing to publications and safety policy. Work in a collaborative, interdisciplinary team using machine learning and systems engineering.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Research Scientist

This role involves conducting original research in AI safety, focusing on interpretability and behavioral analysis of transformer-based large language models. You'll design and run experiments, develop reproducible research tooling in Python with PyTorch, and translate technical findings for government, frontier labs, and national security partners. The position emphasizes scientific rigor, collaboration with senior researchers, and contributing to emerging AI safety standards.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Senior Solutions Architect – Large Scale AI Training

This role involves working closely with leading AI research institutions and model builders across EMEA to design and optimise large-scale AI training and post-training workflows, particularly for foundation models and Mixture-of-Experts architectures. The Senior Solutions Architect acts as a technical bridge between customers and NVIDIA’s product and research teams, advising on distributed training strategies, infrastructure efficiency, and alignment techniques like RLHF. Key responsibilities include optimising GPU utilisation, supporting RL workflows, and shaping product development through customer insights.

NVIDIA France PLN 292,500 – PLN 507,000 pa

Senior Solutions Architect – Large Scale AI Training

This role involves serving as a technical expert for leading AI organizations in EMEA, focusing on large-scale AI model training and alignment. You'll guide customers on distributed training strategies, optimize infrastructure and software stacks using NVIDIA's full training stack including Megatron-LM and NeMo, and influence product development based on field feedback. The position bridges research and engineering, supporting cutting-edge work in MoE models, reinforcement learning, and post-training workflows.

NVIDIA PLN 292,500 – PLN 507,000 pa

Research Scientist (Applied LLMs), London

A Research Scientist will focus on applying Large Language Models to drug discovery challenges, developing novel ML techniques and models that integrate with biological and chemical data. The role involves close collaboration with interdisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers to advance AI-driven drug design. Work includes model development, experimentation, and scaling frameworks for predictive applications in a fast-paced research environment.

Isomorphic Labs London, United Kingdom

Hybrid 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

Data Scientist - AI Safety

This role involves building and managing datasets and evaluation systems for AI safety, translating safety policies into actionable data criteria, and creating scalable processes for data collection, labelling, and model assessment. The Data Scientist will work across policy, research, and engineering to ensure models are evaluated using real-world data and robust quality standards. A strong focus is placed on developing reproducible pipelines and operationalising safety frameworks in a fast-moving AI environment.

ElevenLabs London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Staff Research Scientist, Reinforce Learning

This role involves developing and advancing AI systems for autonomous driving, focusing on areas like world modeling, reinforcement learning, and spatial intelligence. You'll work on cutting-edge research and development, contributing to the creation of safe and efficient autonomous vehicles.

Wayve London, United Kingdom