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Hire ml research engineers in the UK

What ml research engineers are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Machine Learning Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See ML Research Engineer jobs.

What you will pay

£212k to £633k, most around £413k

The range employers advertised for ml research engineers on Machine Learning Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 8 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring ml research engineers on Machine Learning Jobs right now

Anthropic 6
Isomorphic Labs 2

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

ElevenLabs

Research Engineer - Data Infrastructure

United Kingdom
Remote
Mid-level
Permanent

Owns the data infrastructure behind frontier AI models, building large-scale pipelines for collecting, filtering and transforming training datasets. Also trains classifiers, quality filters and labeling models, and designs curation strategies like deduplication and quality scoring. Fully remote, with tooling work letting researchers explore and train on massive datasets.

Kubernetes

3 weeks ago

Isomorphic Labs · 201–500 people · Series A

ML Research Engineer, London

London
Hybrid · 3 days in office
Senior

Research Engineers build and optimise state-of-the-art AI models for drug design, working across the full ML lifecycle from experimentation and evaluation to production deployment. The role involves developing robust codebases, data pipelines and training infrastructure, with a focus on architectures such as Transformers, GNNs and diffusion models, in close collaboration with scientists and engineers.

JAX · PyTorch · XLA +6

Last month

ElevenLabs

Research Engineer

United Kingdom
Remote
Mid-level
Permanent

Join the research team at an AI audio company, training state-of-the-art models across modalities and improving them through post-training, data curation and architectural changes. You'll design rigorous benchmarks and evaluations to judge whether new model iterations are genuinely better, working autonomously in lean, high-velocity teams.

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