Latest software engineer Jobs

Engineering Manager

Lead and develop a team of engineers while contributing technically to complex, cloud-native banking technology projects. Bridge product, client, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions on a modern tech stack. Balance hands-on technical work with people management and strategic delivery in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Thought Machine Lisbon, Portugal

On-site Permanent

Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise

Leads a forward-deployed engineering team acting as the technical bridge between AI capabilities and strategic enterprise customers. Involves designing custom integrations, ETL pipelines and production AI agents, plus prompt engineering, RAG systems and evaluation frameworks, deployed within customer security and compliance boundaries.

Scale AI London

IT Manager - AI & Software Development

Lead a small software development team while embedding AI into the delivery lifecycle, from requirements and design through coding, testing and documentation. Oversee engineering standards, release management, day-to-day IT operations and outsourced providers, using Microsoft AI, Azure and Power Platform to improve business processes.

Think Specialist Recruitment Watford £60,000 – £80,000 pa

Alignment Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

Join a specialised red team detecting and evaluating misalignment in frontier AI systems, researching techniques for loss-of-control risks like deceptive alignment, research sabotage and reward-seeking. Build and run pre-deployment alignment evaluations, design open-source tooling, and report findings to frontier labs and governments. Open at junior through principal levels.

AI Security Institute London

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Technical Data Architect)

Customer-facing role building and productionising data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform, owning architecture and design decisions for end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, ML/AI and application development. Embeds with client teams from engineers to executives, delivering production-grade reference architectures and reusable accelerators, with around 20% travel.

Databricks London

Hybrid

Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Safety)

Lead the technical strategy, architecture and deployment of secure AI systems across high-stakes domains, bridging research and production impact. The role involves capability testing for Frontier AI models, multi-agent systems, scalable cloud infrastructure and safety-first frameworks, while advising senior clients and mentoring engineering talent.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Lead the design, build and deployment of production-grade machine learning systems for government and national security clients, covering architecture, scalable infrastructure and MLOps standards. The role blends hands-on Python, cloud and Kubernetes engineering with client-facing technical advisory and mentoring of junior engineers.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer

Builds and scales generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour, implementing and optimising large neural networks and distributed training infrastructure. Acts as a bridge between ML scientists and production systems, profiling GPU workloads and optimising inference for multi-modal biological data in an interdisciplinary TechBio team.

Relation Therapeutics London

Permanent

Senior Applied AI Engineer

Architect and build multi-agent AI systems end-to-end, combining frameworks like LangGraph or Haystack with bespoke orchestration, state management and tool-calling logic. Embed LLMs and vision-language models into live reasoning, search and task-execution workflows, deploying across cloud and on-premises environments with monitoring, evaluation and guardrail tooling. Set technical standards for agentic AI within the team, working with a biotech and pharma customer.

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Didcot £700 – £900 pd

Hybrid Contract

Senior ML Performance Engineer, Inference Optimisation

Hands-on role optimising inference for edge accelerators and GPUs so large transformer models run efficiently on low-cost, low-power in-vehicle compute. You'll profile model graphs, compiler/runtime behaviour and kernel execution, implement optimisations like fusion, scheduling and custom kernels, and build benchmarking and regression tests across NVIDIA Orin/Thor and Qualcomm targets, working closely with model, platform and deployment teams.

Wayve London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AV Core

Lead large-scale data enrichment and curation for the Core Model Safety team, mining hard and rare events and building workflows across pre/mid-training, reward modelling and self-supervised labelling. Design and train out-of-distribution detection mechanisms for robust driverless operation, working at the intersection of model engineering, infrastructure, compute and data.

Wayve London

Hybrid Permanent

Staff Research Engineer - Multimodal Generative Modelling

Join the Voice team within a 40+ person R&D department to build human-interactive multimodal models combining text, audio and video. You'll define research roadmaps, propose novel architectures, develop low-latency streaming conversational systems, and take models from pretraining through post-training to production deployment.

Synthesia London

Remote Permanent

Machine Learning Research Engineer

Join a small, dynamic R&D team prototyping and implementing new approaches to AI problems, evaluating output quality, efficiency and feasibility against other techniques in a data-driven way. Work spans data science on large datasets, modelling and evaluation, using Python ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and Scikit-Learn. Open to graduates as well as senior candidates with published work in NLP, Computer Vision or Deep Learning.

Luminance Cambridge

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Lead the design, build and deployment of production-grade ML systems for defence clients, covering architecture, scalable infrastructure and engineering standards. Work across TensorFlow or PyTorch, Python, cloud platforms and Docker/Kubernetes, while advising customers and mentoring junior engineers. Requires UK Security Clearance and 2-4 days per week on client sites.

Faculty AI London

Hybrid Permanent Flexible Clearance Required

Staff Machine Learning Engineer | | Up to+ Bonus

Hands-on technical leadership role building and scaling enterprise Generative AI, LLM and agentic AI systems across multiple engineering teams. Involves designing production-grade RAG and multi-agent solutions, shaping reusable AI frameworks and standards, and ensuring reliability and governance in a regulated financial services environment.

WeDoTech London £120,000 – £160,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent