Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Cambridge

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Lead the safety assessment strategy for drug discovery projects from inception to regulatory submission, designing screening cascades and mechanistic experiments for small molecules and biologics. Partner with machine learning researchers to build predictive toxicology models and manage CRO relationships for outsourced wet-lab data generation, while mentoring junior scientists.

KNIME · Python

• 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
• £33,662 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead a role in the IMPACT-OC European consortium building a multi-agent AI system for ovarian cancer, integrating imaging, genomics, histopathology and clinical records with privacy-preserving federated learning. Embedded jointly across the Department of Radiology and the Early Cancer Institute, contributing to multimodal AI pipelines, digital twin technology and clinician-facing deployment across eight partner institutions.

• Cambridge
• £63,606 – £67,468 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

The role involves contributing to research and teaching in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on fundamental ML, novel models and architectures. The appointee will develop graduate content for the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, contribute to undergraduate teaching, and build a research team supported by external funding.

• Cambridge
• £80,000 – £100,000 pa
• Senior

Provisioning and running multi-rack GPU clusters for training and inference at a not-for-profit AI organisation, covering hardware, fabric and orchestration. The role spans high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA, RoCE), advanced Linux across Ubuntu and RHEL, virtualisation, and infrastructure-as-code with Git and Terraform/OpenTofu, working closely with researchers and engineers.

Terraform · OpenTofu · Ubuntu +7

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• Director · manages people

Lead the AI engineering strategy and delivery of advanced AI products and platforms, reporting to executive leadership. Manage software, platform and AI engineering teams, driving adoption of Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG and multi-agent architectures on Azure, AWS or GCP. Requires a strong engineering background and proven leadership in high-growth environments.

LangGraph · LangChain · Semantic Kernel +7

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• Director · manages people

Lead the AI engineering strategy and delivery of advanced AI products and platforms, reporting to executive leadership. Manage software, platform and AI engineering teams, driving adoption of Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG and multi-agent architectures across Azure, AWS or GCP. Requires a strong engineering background and proven leadership in high-growth environments.

LangGraph · LangChain · Semantic Kernel +7

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Works within Cambridge R&D teams on high-impact projects spanning rapid prototyping and structured platform development, providing expert technical direction and mentoring engineers across languages such as Python, JavaScript, Rust and C++. Involves advancing methodology for defending against unknown cyber-attacks, shaping technical strategy, and engaging with executive leadership. Hybrid role with two days a week in the Cambridge office.

Docker · Git · Cloud Computing

• London
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Works within the Cambridge R&D teams on high-impact projects spanning rapid prototyping and structured platform development, advancing methodology for defending against unknown cyber-attacks. Provides expert technical direction, mentors engineers across languages like Python, JavaScript, Rust and C++, and engages executive leadership on technical strategy. Requires Docker, cloud, CI/CD and Git proficiency with a strong interest in cyber-security and malware forensics.

Docker · Git · Cloud Computing

• 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

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

Designs and leads in vitro and cellular pharmacology strategies for small-molecule drug discovery programmes, defining screening cascades and overseeing biophysical, biochemical and cell-based assays. Works closely with AI/ML, medicinal chemistry, structural biology and in vivo teams, and manages external CRO activities to link computational predictions with laboratory validation. Some roles include line management of 2-3 scientists.

SPR · ITC

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office

Conducts independent and collaborative research into language models, neural networks, statistical methods and classical machine learning, prototyping new ideas and improving existing projects. Implements models into the wider software stack, including optimised solutions for edge devices with tight latency and memory constraints, working closely with software engineers and security analysts.

PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn +2

• Cambridge
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• Senior

Owns the prototyping and development of new ideas to improve Darktrace's cybersecurity services, balancing creativity with time constraints to ship novel features. Works with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and strategists on projects spanning rapid prototyping to structured platform development, with a focus on defending against unknown cyber-attacks.

Docker