Data Science Jobs

• 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

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

Drive DMPK strategy across drug discovery projects, designing screening cascades and mechanistic experiments with an AI-first approach. Integrate DMPK, PD and toxicology data to predict human dose and safety windows, and author regulatory documents. Work closely with Chemistry, Pharmacology and AI/ML platform teams in a hybrid London setting.

R · Python · KNIME

• 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

• Sheffield
• Hybrid
• £32,722 – £47,389 pa
• Contract

Provide statistical input and leadership across clinical trial research projects, covering study design, analysis and reporting. Work with complex datasets using strong programming skills, communicating complex statistical concepts to non-statisticians and training statistical colleagues within the Clinical Trials Research Unit.

• 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.

• Oxford
• £40,178 – £48,700 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develop and validate multimodal machine-learning models integrating electronic health records, laboratory, molecular, imaging and digital pathology data from large-scale NHS sources. Build reproducible pipelines for heterogeneous longitudinal data within secure environments, working with clinicians, pathologists and engineers on disease progression and treatment response prediction.

NHS Data · Electronic Health Records · Secure Data Environment +2

• 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

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £47,779 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develop novel statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genomic, phenotypic and health data, working with Professor Pier Palamara in the Palamara Group. Research spans genomic language models, multimodal and federated learning, and multi-trait/multi-ancestry methods applied to biobank-scale datasets for association testing, fine-mapping and polygenic prediction. The role also involves building reproducible research software, publishing, and guiding junior researchers.

• 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.

• London
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £43,000 – £48,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Provides trial design and statistical analysis for an expanding Clinical Trials Unit portfolio, plus statistical support for four national clinical audits covering over 500 providers and 4 million electronic health records. Works within a multidisciplinary team of statisticians, data scientists and epidemiologists on clinical trials, health services research informing NHS policy, and methodological and data science work.

• 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

• Hanoi, Vietnam
• On-site
• Permanent

A research-focused faculty role in data science, combining independent research, high-quality publications and securing competitive funding with teaching, course delivery and student supervision. The position sits within an engineering and computer science college and collaborates with a big data research institute, spanning areas such as IoT, distributed systems, computational intelligence and applied data science in genetics, agriculture and healthcare.