Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Bristol

• Bristol
• £44,746 – £58,225 pa
• Permanent

The postholder will contribute to world-leading AI research and develop and deliver education programmes, including a new undergraduate degree in Computer Science with AI. The School is particularly interested in candidates with strengths in Multi-Modal AI and Computer Vision, and the role involves publishing in top venues and applying for external funding.

Isambard AI

• Bristol
• £44,746 – £50,253 pa
• Junior
• Permanent

Builds and operates the software-defined compute and storage/networking platforms behind the UK's most powerful supercomputer, using Python, Rust, Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Git and Bash. Works closely with AI researchers to co-design and debug massive-scale GPU and CPU/GPU workloads, with a focus on stability, security and scaling.

Kubernetes · Terraform · OpenTofu +6

• Bristol
• On-site
• £54,000 – £58,000 pa

Develops and evaluates image processing, computer vision and deep learning algorithms for imaging sensor systems, covering segmentation, noise removal, tracking, pose estimation and classification. Works with cross-functional teams to turn complex requirements into operational software, supporting research into emerging AI/ML techniques and algorithm testing and integration.

Python · C++ · SAR +3

• Filton
• £45,000 – £58,000 pa
• Permanent

Research, develop and evaluate image processing and computer vision algorithms within a specialist team, applying AI and deep learning to segmentation, object detection, tracking and classification. Work spans optical flow, pose estimation, particle filtering and computational imaging using MATLAB, Simulink and Python with PyTorch, collaborating with multidisciplinary engineers to turn research into practical applications.

MATLAB · Simulink · Python +1

• Almondsbury
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £80,000 – £130,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Owns the infrastructure behind internal AI deployments, building and maintaining data pipelines, APIs, webhooks and middleware that connect AI agents to CRMs, ERPs and SaaS systems. Takes prototypes to production-grade, handling hardening, scaling, monitoring and troubleshooting across cloud and containerised environments.

Airflow · Prefect · Dagster +7

• Bristol
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £450 – £480 pd
• Senior
• Contract

Designs, builds and deploys end-to-end AI/ML solutions for a banking client's Coach AI programme, including LLM-powered assistants, copilots and multi-agent agentic systems. Involves production deployment, MLOps pipelines, NLP, computer vision and voice AI, plus AI guardrails, responsible-AI governance and mentoring a team as senior lead.

TensorFlow · PyTorch · OpenAI +5

• Bath
• Senior
• Permanent

A professorial role leading research in core AI areas such as generative models, NLP, reinforcement learning, and AI security within a highly regarded AI & Machine Learning group. The position involves strategic leadership, grant capture, industry collaboration, and research-led teaching, with opportunities to help shape the newly launched Bath Centre for AI.

• London
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Expression of interest for engineers at all levels to join a government team building shared tooling and infrastructure for frontier AI security research. Work spans open-source Inspect plugins, large-scale evaluation systems, hosting open-weights models, secure model-access proxies, and custom research infrastructure.

Inspect

• London
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Evaluates frontier and open-weight AI models for cybersecurity, autonomy and AI R&D capabilities, building realistic cyber ranges and CTF suites, running pre-deployment testing and validating novel model behaviours. Works alongside engineers and researchers with high autonomy, collaborating with UK government, frontier labs and NCSC.

Cyber Ranges · CTF · Claude

• Exeter
• Entry level
• Contract

A PhD studentship investigating when AI-driven biodiversity monitoring provides reliable ecological evidence, combining large datasets with simulation and statistical modelling. The student will quantify how detection errors affect occupancy, abundance and population trends, and test whether ecological context or complementary sensors improve reliability. Training covers reproducible data science, computer vision, hierarchical ecological modelling and uncertainty quantification, with joint supervision from Exeter and Bristol.

eDNA · Remote Sensing · Acoustics

• Manchester
• £39,000 – £45,000 pa
• Mid-level

Designs, builds and improves digital products, web applications and AI-enabled solutions supporting students and staff across a multi-campus university. Works within Digital, AI and Platform Services on integrations, APIs, automated workflows and prototypes moved into production, with security, accessibility and user-centred design built in from the outset.

.NET · C# · TypeScript +1

• Hove
• £39,000 – £45,000 pa

Designs, builds and improves digital products, web applications and AI-enabled workflows that support students and staff across a multi-campus university. Works within Digital, AI and Platform Services on integrations, APIs and automation, moving AI prototypes into production while embedding security, accessibility and privacy. Uses C#/.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript and product insight to drive continuous improvement.

.NET · C# · TypeScript +1

• London
• Hybrid
• £145,000 pa
• Director

Expression of interest for a Research Director role at the AI Security Institute, scoped at Level 7, focused on understanding advanced AI risks and translating that into government action. The position involves shaping public-interest research on frontier AI safety, with pre-release access to frontier models, ample compute, and collaboration with national security, policy and AI research experts.

• London
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £145,000 pa

The Chem Bio team researches, evaluates and mitigates chemical and biological risks from frontier AI, running capability evaluations, building benchmarks and datasets, and developing safeguards and monitoring methods. The role spans ML, computational biology, chemistry and biosecurity, with findings shared with AI companies and government. It is an expression of interest for research engineers and scientists at any seniority.

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Senior individual contributor building and owning shared platform, tooling and infrastructure for a research team, including LLM-based agent systems, evaluation frameworks and supporting infrastructure. Works closely with interdisciplinary researchers to translate varied needs into maintainable Python systems, with strong engineering discipline around testing, documentation and observability. Also contributes to architectural decisions, engineering standards and mentoring through code review and knowledge sharing.

AWS · Kubernetes · Slurm +2