Machine Learning Jobs

• London
• Hybrid · 2 days in office
• £160,000 – £170,000 pa
• Director · manages people

Owns the data, analytics and AI strategy for a global pharmaceutical procurement joint venture, leading a multidisciplinary team of around 18 across analytics, data science and engineering. Reports to the COO and drives a digital and AI roadmap spanning commercial and pricing analytics, predictive modelling of supply chain risk and operational improvement, influencing senior stakeholders across both parent organisations.

• Norwich
• £25,000 – £45,000 pa
• Entry level

A self-paced traineeship taking complete beginners through AI fundamentals, Python, data handling, machine learning and Git/GitHub, with Microsoft AI-900 certification and two tutor-assigned industry projects. On completion, candidates are placed into a Junior AI Engineer role with a partner employer within 20 miles of their location.

Azure · Microsoft AI-900 · Git +1

• Leeds
• £25,000 – £45,000 pa
• Entry level

A self-paced traineeship taking complete beginners through AI fundamentals, Python, data handling, machine learning and Git/GitHub, with Microsoft AI-900 certification and two tutor-assigned industry projects. On completion, candidates are placed into a Junior AI Engineer role with a partner employer within 20 miles of their location.

Microsoft Azure · Git · GitHub +1

• Sheffield
• Hybrid
• £32,080 pa
• Entry level
• Contract · Part time

Build and evaluate machine learning models that predict Strep A outbreaks from multiple real-world datasets, turning them into early-warning signals. Work closely with clinicians and an engineering team so analyses feed into a practical public health tool, with emphasis on reproducible Python or R analysis.

• London
• Remote
• £432 – £484 pd
• Senior
• Contract

Design and deploy production-grade Generative AI workflows and backend security guardrails for a global financial institution's AI Centre of Excellence. The role spans PII/MNPI sanitisation, prompt-injection defence, Python or Java GenAI and ML solutions, AWS/Azure data pipelines with Airflow, plus roughly 20-25% frontend and UI work for guardrail tooling, alongside production support and evaluation metrics.

AWS · Azure · Apache Airflow

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £48,337 – £59,390 pa
• Mid-level
• Contract

Develops and applies machine-learning and AI methods to protein engineering and enzyme design, analysing large biological, chemical and experimental datasets and building predictive models and computational tools. Works within an interdisciplinary group spanning the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and Department of Chemistry, providing ML and data-science expertise, training and support to postdocs and students, and contributing to publications and funding bids.

• Butterrow
• £55,000 – £65,000 pa
• Mid-level

Designs and builds real-time embedded software in C and C++ for microelectronics and sensors, alongside data pipelines and machine learning systems. The role covers CI/CD for ML, model versioning and drift monitoring, generative AI and LLM work including RAG and fine-tuning, plus ETL/ELT pipelines and IoT data services. Joins a small team owning the full SDLC from clean-sheet design to live deployment.

Spark · dbt · CI/CD +1

• London
• Permanent

Designs, builds and maintains production harm-detection systems using SQL, Python, machine learning and language models, developing signals, classifiers and pipelines on shared engineering platforms. Owns protection strategy and cross-functional delivery for a harm area or product launch, connecting detection with policy, review, enforcement and measurement. Includes on-call rotation and exposure to sensitive content.

SQL · Python

• London
• Permanent

Conducts research on safety post-training methods such as RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, PPO, reward modeling, adversarial training and synthetic data, then builds evaluations for harms like jailbreaks, hallucination and unsafe tool use. Highly cross-functional, partnering with core training, product, policy, legal and trust and safety teams to ship safety improvements into production models.

OpenAI

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Builds and enhances scoring and detection tooling on Quantexa's Decision Intelligence platform, turning complex interconnected data into insights for financial crime detection. Works across the stack with agentic AI tooling, taking features from concept to release alongside product and delivery teams, with a growing stakeholder management focus.

Spark · Hadoop · Elasticsearch +6

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Builds and leads the technical programme management function for Wayve's AI Platform organisation, owning planning, prioritisation and execution across data and compute infrastructure, developer tooling, training technology and inference optimisation. Coaches a small TPM team, manages cross-team dependencies with ML, research, embedded and vendor partners, and drives measurable gains in developer velocity, compute efficiency and model performance.

Kubernetes · Ray · Flyte +6

• London
• Remote
• £60,000 – £70,000 pa
• Senior

Technical Business Analyst role sitting between business and software engineering, translating complex requirements, mapping system integrations and data flows, and driving process and platform improvements. Works across regulatory change, system enhancements and new platform capabilities, with scope to explore AI, ML and automation, while mentoring less experienced BAs.

• London
• Remote
• £60,000 – £85,000 pa
• Permanent

Lead end-to-end technology procurement and sourcing for Central Government, Defence and National Security programmes, developing commercial strategies and running competitive tenders and supplier evaluations. Provide commercial expertise across cloud, cyber, data and AI procurements, managing supplier relationships and governance, assurance and approval activities with senior stakeholders.

Cloud · Cyber · Data +3

• United Kingdom
• Entry level
• Internship

Six- to twelve-month AI and algorithms internship for PhD or Master's students, working alongside engineers on client projects involving modelling, training, testing and data wrangling. Interns also contribute to internal R&D, building on state-of-the-art AI literature, and present results to colleagues and clients. Requires strong Python, Git and demonstrable research experience, plus UK security clearance eligibility.

Git · Transformer Models · Diffusion Models +1

• Exeter
• On-site
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A fully funded PhD studentship researching how small language models can become reliable agents for bounded business workflows, using harness optimisation and fine-tuning on traces from larger teacher models. The work measures reliability, cost, latency and data locality, and releases open tooling for UK SMEs, in collaboration with an industry research lab.

Large Language Models