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Engineering Manager - AI Defence Product (dominAI)

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.

Hadean London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Researcher in Probabilistic Machine Learning for AI Governence

Leads a research strand on Bayesian methods for evaluating and monitoring AI systems, publishing findings, running the lab's open-source software, producing policy-facing outputs, and guiding research assistants and students. Based in the Bayesian Governance Lab within Oxford's Department of Engineering Science, in collaboration with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, on a two-year fixed-term post.

University of Oxford Oxford £49,119 – £59,955 pa

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Machine Learning

central OxfordWe are seekingtwo full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistants in Machine Learning to join the Visual Geometry Group (VGG), in central Oxford. The positions are associated with two separate research projects funded by Toyota Motor Europe and Amazon, respectively. Each successful...

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £47,779 pa

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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Dual role combining line management of a growing ML engineering team with hands-on technical delivery across multiple client projects. You'll shape ML engineering practice, lead multidisciplinary teams, oversee solution design and quality assurance, and support pre-sales and use case discovery alongside commercial teams.

Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe United Kingdom £81,322 – £112,488 pa

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Software Engineer 1 (MLOps)

Contract: 18-month fixed-term contract from signing (running to at least January 2028), with a view to extending or moving to permanent as a second round of programme funding is confirmed.Location: Oxford, hybrid preferred, though we'd consider fully remote for the...

Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe Oxford £78,174 – £94,686 pa

Verification Engineer

Contribute to the design, development, verification and certification of embedded safety-critical systems providing runtime assurance for autonomous platforms. Define verification strategies, build test frameworks and certification evidence aligned with DO-178C, and perform requirements-based testing and traceability. Work in a specialised team on mathematically verifiable software foundations for aerospace and land autonomy.

Profile 29 Witney £45,000 – £65,000 pa

Hybrid

Software Engineer

Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for autonomous systems, building runtime assurance and fail-safe architectures using SPARK Ada and high-integrity processes. Work spans verification, validation and certification activities for DAL-A/DAL-B software across aerospace and land autonomy platforms, scaling prototype capability to enterprise deployment.

Profile 29 Witney £45,000 – £65,000 pa

Hybrid

Software Engineer

Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.

Flarebright Bicester £39,000 – £49,000 pa

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Computer Vision Engineer

This role involves designing and developing advanced computer vision algorithms for object detection, tracking, and 6DoF pose estimation, with a focus on integration into embedded and flight software systems. The engineer will lead verification and validation activities, support sensor selection and integration, and provide technical mentorship. Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams ensures performance and compatibility across hardware and software in autonomous systems.

Holt Executive Oxfordshire £60,000 – £94,000 pa

Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist in AI for Outbreak Response

Develops and validates machine learning models for disease forecasting and simulation models for scenario exploration, using large-scale epidemiological, genomic and behavioural data. Builds decision-support tools and reproducible pipelines, integrating them into public health workflows with partners in Nigeria and the DRC through co-design workshops and training.

University of Oxford Oxford £49,119 – £58,265 pa

On-site Contract

Postdoctoral Researcher: AI Safety in Mental Health

Deliver AI safety research for the ARIADNE consortium, a Wellcome-funded generative AI system conducting clinical interviews to assess psychosis risk. Develop LLM supervisor modules that detect delusional reinforcement and inappropriate responses to suicidal symptoms, evaluating them in controlled testbeds with simulated patients and LLM-as-judge scoring calibrated against clinicians.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £47,779 pa

Hybrid Contract

Researcher in Large Language Models

Technical researcher on the God and the Machine project, supporting Workstream 1 by using large language models as a computational hermeneutic tool and running experiments with local models, including interpretability, activation steering and machine unlearning. Also acts as technical expert for Workstream 2, which develops a theology of AI's mediation of human formation, within Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £41,336 pa

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PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in Control Engineering- Sustainable and Circular AI Systems

Investigates how the rapid growth of AI can be supported by more sustainable, circular hardware and infrastructure, linking computational performance to the physical materials and equipment required. Develops scenarios for UK AI and data centre growth, mapping hardware requirements to critical raw materials and modelling how lifetime extension, reuse, repair and remanufacture could cut environmental impacts. Based in the Circular Economy and Sustainability Lab, contributing to the Circular Electricals and Electronics Project.

University of Oxford Oxford £21,805 pa

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistical Machine Learning for Genomics

Develops novel statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genomic, phenotypic and health data, covering areas such as genomic language models, multimodal and federated learning, and multi-ancestry methods. Builds scalable, reproducible research software applied to biobank-scale datasets, evaluates statistical and predictive performance, publishes findings and guides junior researchers in the Palamara Group.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £47,779 pa

On-site Contract

Research Associate in Multi-view 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction

Develops 3D reconstruction and multi-view data fusion methods for neonatal cranial ultrasound, validating them on data from the neonatal intensive care unit. Works at the intersection of 3D computer vision, neural rendering and medical image analysis, including physics-informed rendering models for view-dependent acoustic appearance. Based in a multidisciplinary lab alongside deep learning researchers, software engineers and neonatologists.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £43,984 pa

Hybrid Permanent Flexible