Data Science Jobs

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead high-impact AI safety projects for Frontier Labs, inventing novel evaluation frameworks and designing robust software architectures. Mentor technical team members, partner with commercial teams on scoping, and advance the science of AI evaluations through research and public speaking. Combines hands-on Python data science with project leadership in a national security and AI safety unit.

NumPy · Pandas · Inspect AI +1

• Sydney, Australia
• Hybrid
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead high-impact AI projects, defining data science approaches and designing robust software architectures for bespoke client solutions. Mentor junior data scientists, partner with commercial teams on client relationships, and ensure delivery rigour across the project lifecycle. Hands-on Python, NumPy, Pandas and deep-learning work sits alongside team leadership.

Python · NumPy · Pandas +2

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people

Lead computational chemistry strategy across drug discovery programs, applying AI-first methods to hit finding, molecular design and lead optimisation. Work with ML scientists to embed generative models and ultra-large virtual screening into workflows, with optional line management of 2-3 computational chemists.

REINVENT · AlphaFold · Large Language Models +2

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level · manages people

Conducts core machine learning research applying large language models to drug discovery, developing and refining LLM-driven approaches across biology and chemistry use cases. Builds and scales training and inference frameworks, tunes experiments, and collaborates with interdisciplinary scientists. Senior candidates may lead standalone projects and mentor the ML community.

JAX · PyTorch · TensorFlow +3

• 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.

• Cambridge
• £47,389 – £59,966 pa
• Entry level
• Permanent

The role involves contributing to research and teaching in statistics, broadly interpreted from theoretical mathematical statistics to foundations of machine learning, within the world-leading Statistical Laboratory. The post-holder will lecture undergraduate and master's courses, pursue research funding, and build interdisciplinary collaborations across Cambridge and internationally.

• 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.

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

Lead delivery of Work Packages on a Wellcome Trust grant, managing academic research and administrative activities with small-scale project management. Develop research methodologies, analyse quantitative data, and lead the project's code and data-sharing strategy using GitHub and Docker/Singularity. Based in the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing.

GitHub · Docker · Singularity

• London
• Remote
• £140,000 – £150,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Lead a data research function, defining strategy with senior leadership and driving discovery of new data products and KPI methodologies. Oversee complex research programmes, evaluate structured and unstructured datasets, and set standards for statistical analysis and technical excellence. Also mentor a team of data professionals and promote AI and automation to improve research quality.

Python · SQL · AI

• 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

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Senior individual contributor building the shared platform, tooling and infrastructure for an interdisciplinary chem-bio research team. Work spans LLM-based agent systems, evaluation frameworks, cloud and container infrastructure, and production Python, translating varied research needs into maintainable systems while mentoring engineers without line management.

AWS · Kubernetes · Slurm +2

• London
• £46,415 – £52,494 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Applies state-of-the-art deep learning and data science to Defence and Security challenges, running investigations and proof-of-concept work across text, image, audio and graph data. Works collaboratively with partner stakeholders, designing rigorous experiments and presenting findings, with some guidance from senior staff.

Version Control

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead
• Contract

Owns the end-to-end product lifecycle for data-driven, customer-centric products that help Tesco tailor ranges and planograms to individual stores, from research and discovery through delivery and optimisation. Works closely with Tesco plus data science, engineering and analytics teams to deliver scalable, API-ready models and solutions.

• 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.

• London
• £68,087 pa
• Permanent

Contribute to research and teaching in data science and statistics within an established department, with expertise sought in statistics, machine learning or data science. The role expects a strong publication trajectory and a viable future research strategy, with collaboration encouraged across the School's institutes.