Latest applied scientist Jobs

Principal Data Scientist

This role involves leading high-impact, technically complex AI projects for financial services clients, with a focus on Generative AI and agentic systems. The Principal Data Scientist will drive innovation through hands-on development, mentorship, and thought leadership, while shaping best practices and technical direction across the organisation. They will also contribute to client strategy and bid processes, ensuring responsible and effective deployment of AI solutions.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Computational Drug Design), Cambridge, MA

Lead or contribute to computational drug design projects using AI-driven approaches, integrating machine learning into cheminformatics workflows. Guide drug discovery programs from hit identification through candidate selection, collaborating closely with ML scientists. Help shape and refine AI models while mentoring teams and driving innovation in molecular design and optimisation.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United Kingdom

Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Medicinal Drug Design), Cambridge, MA

Lead or contribute to drug discovery projects by integrating medicinal chemistry expertise with AI-driven platforms. Guide projects from initiation to candidate selection, collaborate with machine learning teams to refine models, and manage CRO partnerships. The role emphasizes innovation in structure-based and fragment-based drug design within a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment.

Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United Kingdom

Full Stack Software Engineer

Design and build full-stack AI-powered applications, translating machine learning outputs into scalable, production-ready systems. Collaborate with data scientists and product managers in cross-functional teams to solve complex client challenges. Take ownership of architectural design, development, and deployment across frontend and backend systems, with a focus on maintainability and technical excellence.

Faculty AI London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent

Principal Designer

A Principal Designer will lead the development of product and service design disciplines within Faculty's Applied AI division, delivering high-impact client projects while building design capabilities from the ground up. The role combines strategic client engagement with executive-level stakeholder management, shaping how human-centred design integrates with AI solutions across industries. This is a senior leadership position focused on both hands-on delivery and long-term team development.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Clinical Trials Statistician

This role involves providing advanced statistical support for multi-centre clinical trials and prospective studies in critical care and perioperative medicine. The statistician will develop analysis plans, clean and analyse clinical datasets, and contribute to high-impact research publications. The position is embedded within a world-leading research group focused on improving outcomes after major surgery and critical illness.

Queen Mary University of London London, United Kingdom £54 – £60 pa

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Data Architect

The role involves leading enterprise data architecture assessments, mapping systems and data flows, identifying data risks, and defining scalable data models and integration patterns. The architect will evaluate data quality controls, platform capabilities, and readiness for AI use cases while promoting canonical data definitions and improving decision-making through data. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to align technical architecture with business needs.

Experis London, United Kingdom £585 pd

Hybrid Contract

Staff Research Engineer - Multimodal Generative Modelling

This role involves developing advanced multimodal generative models that integrate text, audio, and video for real-time, interactive AI conversations. The focus is on creating natural, emotionally expressive dialogue systems that go beyond turn-based interaction. Work includes designing novel architectures, training models end-to-end, and shipping optimized systems to production.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Solutions Architect - Lakebase

This role involves working as a technical advisor and solutions expert to drive adoption of Databricks' Lakebase product, focusing on transactional database integration within data lakehouse and AI ecosystems. The Solutions Architect collaborates with sales and product teams to design client solutions, deliver technical workshops, and address complex data architecture challenges. They also influence product development by translating customer insights into roadmap recommendations.

Databricks London, United Kingdom

Senior Research Engineer - Data

Build and enhance large-scale data pipelines for generative AI models using video and audio data. Collaborate with research and model training teams to curate high-quality datasets and extract features that improve model performance. Work on a human-centric data lake within a fast-moving AI research environment.

Synthesia London, United Kingdom

Remote Permanent

Python & AWS Software Engineer - Data Science Focus

Design and build data pipelines, APIs, and machine learning systems using Python and AWS. Work with large, complex datasets to deliver actionable insights through scalable cloud-based solutions. Collaborate in an Agile environment with strong engineering practices and modern data technologies.

Adecco Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3AE, United Kingdom £60,000 – £75,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent

Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Retail

Lead Machine Learning Engineer shaping complex AI solutions for retail and consumer clients, from strategy through to deployment. You'll define technical direction, design scalable ML systems, mentor engineers, and drive innovation across high-risk, ill-defined projects. The role emphasizes reusable tooling, architectural leadership, and coaching both internal teams and clients.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Customer Marketing Analytics Manager

This role focuses on building and operationalising a robust testing and measurement framework for customer marketing campaigns, using data to drive optimisation and evidence-based decision-making. You'll develop KPIs, design A/B tests, and create scalable reporting dashboards in Power BI, Bloomreach, and Snowflake to track performance. The role also involves coaching marketing teams, ensuring compliance with data governance, and translating complex insights into actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.

AJ Bell Business Solutions Limited Cathedrals, London, United Kingdom £65,000 – £75,000 pa

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Manufacturing Digitalisation

This role involves driving digital transformation at Ford's Halewood plant by implementing and maintaining digital manufacturing tools such as eFPS, IIoT, and DWT Wrapper. The SPOC will act as a bridge between IT, data science, and production teams, supporting Industry 4.0 initiatives, automation, and predictive analytics. Responsibilities include developing digital roadmaps, governance of internal tools, and representing the plant in European forums.

Randstad Inhouse Services Halewood, Merseyside, United Kingdom £46,587 pa

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will work directly with clients to own and implement Gen AI strategies, building end-to-end workflows and taking them to production. You will collaborate in small teams to deliver high-stakes projects, solve real-world problems at scale, and contribute insights back to Palantir's AIP product suite.

Palantir Technologies London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent