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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

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PoliceAI: Senior AI Engineer

As a Senior AI Engineer at PoliceAI, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled products, translating policing needs into technical solutions. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to build secure, maintainable, and scalable services, and support the testing, evaluation, and validation of AI products.

College of Policing London, Eng, United Kingdom £78,000 – £85,000 pa

Remote Contract

R&D Engineer

The R&D Engineer role at Luminance involves designing and developing the company's AI platform, which powers their core technology. The role is open to both graduates and more senior candidates, with a focus on Python development, web-hosted platforms, and a strong drive to learn and lead.

Luminance Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid 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

Research Associate in Biomedical AI (Fixed Term)

The role involves leading projects to develop and benchmark AI models for predicting biological processes using genomic, multi-omic, and phenotypic data. The researcher will work on large-scale datasets, develop statistical methods, and contribute to high-impact publications.

University of Cambridge Cambridge, South East England, United Kingdom £33 – £46 pa

Contract

Research Leader (DMPK), Cambridge, MA

Leads DMPK strategy in drug discovery projects, integrating AI-first approaches to optimize ADME and toxicology models. Designs screening cascades and interprets DMPK, PD, and safety data to guide candidate selection. Collaborates with chemistry, pharmacology, and AI teams to advance molecules from hit identification to clinical development.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United Kingdom

Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety

This role involves conducting research and developing strategies to mitigate risks associated with advanced AI capabilities, particularly focusing on recursive self-improvement. Responsibilities include designing and implementing risk assessment tools, automated auditing, and scalable oversight practices to ensure AI systems remain safe and aligned with human values.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Research Assistant in AI

This role involves processing and analyzing large-scale cardiac imaging data, integrating it with genetic and clinical data, and developing machine-learning models to predict patient risk in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. You will work in a multidisciplinary team at Imperial College London, contributing to a British Heart Foundation-funded project.

Imperial College London London, United Kingdom £45 – £48 pa

Contract

Research Assistant in Agentic AI Security

The role involves researching and developing security measures for AI coding assistants and automated code review agents. Responsibilities include implementing proof-of-concept attacks and defenses, curating vulnerable-code datasets, and contributing to academic and industry publications.

Queen's University Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom £36 – £41 pa

On-site Contract

Regional Research Economist, Economic Research

This role involves conducting empirical economic research to understand AI's impact on labor markets, productivity, and economic transformation across a specific region. The economist will develop and expand the Anthropic Economic Index using novel measurement systems like Clio, applying advanced econometric and machine learning methods. They will collaborate with governments, academia, and policy institutions to translate research into actionable insights and influence both public policy and internal business decisions.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £195,000 – £245,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent

Research Associate Data Scientist- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – Grade 7

This role involves applying AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to improve health and care services. You will develop secure and reproducible AI pipelines, analyse complex health datasets, and collaborate with academic, NHS, industry, policy, and public partners to generate insights and support innovation.

University of Liverpool Liverpool, Northern England, United Kingdom £39 – £46 pa

Contract

Response Squad Agent

Provide frontline technical support to customers by diagnosing and resolving straightforward issues, triaging more complex cases, and ensuring timely, clear communication throughout. Work closely with internal teams to escalate and track incidents, maintaining accurate records and contributing to process improvements. The role emphasizes responsiveness, customer focus, and efficient issue management within a fast-growing AI technology environment.

Luminance London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Research Assistant/Associate in AI for Materials and Manufacturing (Fixed Term)

This role involves developing an uncertainty-aware hybrid digital twin and AI control architecture for creating advanced materials and battery technologies. The appointee will collaborate with researchers across multiple disciplines, integrate multimodal in-line metrology, and contribute to project reports and publications.

University of Cambridge Cambridge, South East England, United Kingdom £33 – £46 pa

On-site Contract

Researcher, Training - London

A research-focused role advancing large language model development through architecture innovation, optimization, and scaling. The position involves designing and evaluating novel model architectures, debugging training regressions, and improving both model and computational performance. Work is integrated within a hybrid (3 days in-office) setup in London, contributing to core training infrastructure and flagship AI systems.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Research Fellow in Responsible AI Translation

This role involves translating technical AI research into policy advice for government, industry, and the public. The post holder will work on agentic and physical AI systems, convene roundtables with senior stakeholders, and represent RAi UK at policy events.

University of Southampton Southampton, South East England, United Kingdom £36 – £44 pa

Contract

Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Medicinal Drug Design), Cambridge, MA

Lead or contribute to drug discovery projects by integrating medicinal chemistry expertise with AI-driven platforms. Collaborate closely with machine learning teams to refine predictive models and drive programs from hit identification to candidate selection. Play a key role in shaping next-generation drug design through innovation in structure-based and fragment-based approaches, while mentoring teams and managing external research partners.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Research Engineer – Human Influence

The Research Engineer role involves designing and building reinforcement learning environments, leveraging interpretability methods to mitigate concerning model behavior, and developing scalable evaluation pipelines. The work is interdisciplinary, combining AI safety, machine learning, and computational social science.

AI Security Institute London, United Kingdom