Data Science Jobs

• Oxford
• On-site
• £49,119 – £59,955 pa
• Senior · manages people
• Contract

Lead a research strand on Bayesian methods for evaluating and monitoring AI systems, publishing findings and guiding research assistants and students. You will also lead the lab's open-source software and translate results into policy-facing outputs, working with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. The role is fixed-term for two years.

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

Lead computational drug design programs from initiation through to clinical candidate selection, working alongside ML scientists to embed AI/ML into chemistry workflows. Roles span Program Lead or Computational Chemistry Lead, with some positions managing 2-3 computational chemists. Requires Python, cheminformatics and a track record of project leadership.

REINVENT · AlphaFold

• London
• Mid-level

Lead and contribute to interdisciplinary research on how frontier AI systems influence human decisions, designing large-scale studies, RCTs, and model evaluations. The role spans computational social science, AI safety, and machine learning, with opportunities to publish, set research agendas, and engage policymakers and frontier labs.

Claude Code · Codex

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Lead (pre)-formulation strategy for small molecules across drug discovery and preclinical development, designing technologies such as solid dispersions and co-crystals to improve solubility, stability and manufacturability. Interpret stability studies using ICH and ASAP methods, author regulatory submissions, and work with drug design, preclinical and CMC teams while managing external CRO resources.

ICH · ASAP · FDA

• Southampton
• On-site
• £37,369 – £45,641 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Investigate type 2 diabetes mechanisms by integrating organ-health measures with large-scale genetic and clinical data. Apply machine learning, GWAS and Mendelian randomisation to identify diabetes subtypes and predict disease risk, working with UK Biobank and multidisciplinary teams.

Linux · UK Biobank

• Hatfield
• On-site
• £39,560 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role delivering research on innovative AI/ML algorithms for predictive modelling and optimisation of agricultural applications using heterogeneous data, as part of an Innovate UK-funded collaborative project. Involves developing AI/ML software tools, data management and analysis, supporting the Principal Investigator on project milestones, and contributing to publications and reports.

TensorFlow · Scikit-Learn · PyTorch +1

• Sheffield
• Hybrid
• £39,560 – £43,099 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role in a world-leading NLP group, using explainable NLP and ML to analyse online disinformation narratives and integrate findings into a user-facing verification toolkit. You will also evaluate commercial chatbots and AI-generated search overviews, working with European partners on the ANTIGONE project and leading publication of results.

Chatbots · AI-Generated Search Overviews

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £48,337 – £59,390 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Develops and applies machine-learning and AI methods to protein engineering and enzyme design, analysing complex biological and chemical datasets and building predictive models and computational tools. Works within an interdisciplinary group spanning the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, providing ML expertise, training and support to computational and experimental colleagues.

• Norwich
• £39,000 – £46,500 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Integrate and analyse heterogeneous dietary, microbiome, metabolomic and mental-health datasets, building reproducible statistical workflows for longitudinal and multi-omics data. Apply causal-inference and validated machine-learning models to predict health outcomes and investigate diet-microbiome-mental-health relationships within a research group.

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead original technical research in AI safety, steering projects from initial question to peer-reviewed publication. Work spans interpretability, steering vectors, goal drift, machine unlearning and uncertainty calibration for transformer LLMs and agentic systems, with outputs informing frontier labs and government institutes. Involves building reproducible research code in PyTorch and Python and collaborating with red-teaming and evaluation teams.

PyTorch · Transformer · Metaview

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a small, high-agency research team setting the scientific agenda for AI safety, focused on large language models and safety-critical systems. Conduct and oversee red-teaming and evaluations in high-risk domains like CBRN and cybersecurity, publish at top conferences, and mentor researchers while aligning work with commercial goals.

Python

• Guildford
• Hybrid
• £32,722 – £37,369 pa
• Contract

Supports data collection, storage, analysis and governance for an InnovateUK-funded project using acoustic monitoring to detect early signs of ill health in poultry flocks. Involves reporting to multiple stakeholders and some front- and back-end software development, with significant on-site presence at a hybrid Guildford base.

PyTorch · Excel

• London
• On-site
• £130,000 – £180,000 pa
• Director · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the entire AI research strategy for a financial crime intelligence business, building and managing a team of researchers and ML engineers while staying hands-on. Work spans LLM fine-tuning, agentic systems, vision models, evaluation frameworks and explainability standards for highly regulated AML, compliance and fraud detection use cases, taking research from concept through to production.

LLMs

• London
• On-site
• £100,000 – £150,000 pa
• Director · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a data research function, defining strategy for sourcing and evaluating new datasets and assessing their quality, reliability and commercial value. Oversee statistical analysis, modelling and time series research, run end-to-end projects, and mentor a small team while driving adoption of AI and advanced analytics.

• Cambridge
• Permanent

Join a research team advancing efficient multimodal deep learning for consumer devices, focusing on dataset curation, annotation pipelines and automated evaluation methods such as LLM-as-judge for audio, image and video perception tasks. The role blends large-scale offline and online data analysis in Python with close collaboration across scientists, compiler engineers and product teams to move models from prototype to production.

Python