Data Science Jobs

• 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

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

Lead medicinal chemistry on drug discovery projects from initiation through to clinical candidate selection, working as a Project Lead or Medicinal Chemistry Lead. Partner closely with ML scientists to refine the AI drug design platform, manage CRO resources and KPIs, and generate intellectual property. Some roles include line managing a team of 2-4 medicinal chemists.

AlphaFold

• London
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Builds and maintains the internal delivery platform that supports over 100 data scientists and ML engineers, owning cloud infrastructure, MLOps and deployment tooling. Work spans infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, containerised microservices and multi-cloud integration across AWS, Azure and GCP, with a focus on removing technical friction for delivery teams.

AWS · Azure · GCP +5

• London
• Hybrid
• Director · manages people
• Permanent

Lead Faculty's AI safety work for frontier labs, owning technical strategy across alignment, interpretability and robustness, and building a world-class R&D team. You'll design an AI safety R&D programme, oversee red-teaming and evaluations for clients like OpenAI and Anthropic, and represent the company with governments and at global events.

OpenAI · Anthropic · Metaview

• 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.

• 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

• United Kingdom
• Remote
• Lead

Customer-facing technical authority on Generative AI, LLMs and applied ML for digital-native and startup accounts across EMEA. Shapes architectures, builds hands-on proofs of concept and reference implementations on Databricks (Mosaic AI, MLflow, Model Serving, Vector Search, Unity Catalog), leads fine-tuning and evaluation engagements, and mentors the wider field engineering organisation.

Databricks · Mosaic AI · MLflow +7

• London
• Hybrid
• £40,815 – £52,790 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Contributes to trial protocols, develops statistical analysis plans and conducts analyses across primary care, psychiatry, surgery and orthopaedics studies within a Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit. Also expected to do a small amount of teaching, working in a collaborative research team at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health.

• London
• Hybrid
• £43,981 – £54,019 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Conduct original independent research under a Principal Investigator in areas such as data science, machine learning, biomedical and environmental statistics, causal inference and applied probability. Produce conference presentations and top-journal publications, contribute to the department's research environment, and take on a limited teaching load (around 20% of a typical academic load).

• 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.

• Sheffield
• £32,722 – £39,560 pa
• Permanent

Teach data science and analytics on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes using an applied, project-based approach rather than traditional lectures. Spend most classroom time guiding students through industry-style projects, connecting their work to real-world practice. Based in a large computing school with unusual facilities including a PlayStation development lab, Azure lab services and humanoid robots.

Microsoft Azure · PlayStation

• Exeter
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

An interdisciplinary PhD developing miniaturised, low-power sensing hardware co-designed with AI for field monitoring of wild animals, including individual recognition and automated behavioural and physiological quantification. Systems are benchmarked under controlled conditions then validated on wild jackdaws and West African field sites, spanning behavioural ecology, electronic engineering and data science.

Thermal Imaging · Cameras · Microphones

• Bedford
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Contract

Provides statistical expertise across R&D, Clinical, Product Support and Marketing, covering study design, analysis plans, algorithm evaluation and post-market surveillance. One of three Statisticians in the Statistical & Data Services Team, acting as statistical representative on assigned projects and communicating findings to non-technical audiences. 12-month maternity cover within a regulated diagnostics environment.

SAS · R · Python

• Ipswich

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• Derby
• Hybrid · 1 day in office
• £60,000 – £75,000 pa
• Mid-level

Design and build data pipelines, ETL processes, APIs and microservices in Python, deploying machine learning models and statistical analysis into production. Manage AWS infrastructure (S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, Glue) supporting data and application workloads, working with large complex datasets in an innovative technology team.

AWS · NumPy · Pandas +7