Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Edinburgh

Hadean · London

Lead a new AI-powered defence product team, line-managing AI/ML, simulation, infrastructure and web engineers while staying hands-on in TypeScript, React and Node. You own delivery end-to-end, hiring and people development, partnering with Product and technical leads, with hybrid working one day a week in Shoreditch.

Interface Recruitment · Leeds

Lead a team of four to own the innovation agenda at an FCA-regulated asset manager, translating technology strategy into actionable roadmaps and championing AI, machine learning, generative AI and intelligent automation. Oversee innovation governance, value realisation and risk management, partnering with business, risk and technology teams to strengthen operational resilience within regulatory expectations.

Medtronic · Edinburgh · £76,800 – £115,200 pa

Designs and manages complex research data pipelines spanning clinical study data collection through validation trials, supporting an AI and algorithm R&D team. Owns data architecture, storage, security and ETL/ELT workflows across sensor platforms and HPC environments, working with Python, SQL and CI/CD automation to enable machine learning and signal processing applications.

Aveni · United Kingdom

Senior technical co-lead of a product squad, owning architectural decisions, technical risk and engineering quality while remaining hands-on across Node.js or Python backends, event-driven AWS and React. Leads LLM feature development, drives AI coding tool adoption across the SDLC, and mentors engineers in an FCA-regulated fintech context.

Aveni · United Kingdom

Builds and scales products on top of FinLLM and other LLMs, engineering event-driven microservices, APIs, cloud-native AWS systems and React front-ends that bring AI into real financial workflows. Works closely with product and PhD-level AI specialists, using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS and AI coding assistants in a remote-first team.

AI Security Institute · London · £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.

AI Security Institute · London · £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.

AI Security Institute · London · £145,000 pa

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.

AI Security Institute · London · £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.

AI Security Institute · London

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.