Machine Learning Jobs in Exeter

• 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

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

Builds next-generation machine learning models to predict genetic interactions from large-scale perturb-seq data, evaluating graph neural networks and autoencoders for genome-wide scalability and cross-cancer generalisation. Works in a lab-in-the-loop cycle with AstraZeneca and Cancer Research Horizons FGC, who generate pancreatic cancer perturb-seq data to fine-tune the computational models. Purely computational, with high performance computing and industry-aligned experience.

Perturb-seq · DepMap · Project Score

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

Lead computational chemistry strategy across drug discovery programs, applying AI-first approaches to hit finding, molecular design and lead optimisation. Work with ML scientists to embed generative models into cheminformatics workflows, with some roles managing 2-3 computational chemists.

REINVENT · AlphaFold · Large Language Models

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Lead translational pharmacology for an AI-first drug discovery team, shaping neurodegeneration strategy and target validation. Design screening cascades, profile AI-designed molecules, and manage CRO studies while bridging computational and experimental biology.

SPR · TR-FRET · Mass Spectrometry

• London
• Senior

Serve as the trusted technical ML and AI expert for enterprise customers, architecting production-grade ML and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Specialise in GenAI solutions such as RAG architectures, agentic systems and AI observability, while mentoring colleagues and influencing the platform's AI roadmap.

Databricks · AWS · Azure +7

• London
• Hybrid · 1 day in office
• £225,000 – £255,000 pa
• Mid-level

Partner-facing role embedding with nonprofits, research institutes and academic medical centres to apply Claude to clinical development for rare and neglected diseases. You'll design and review trial protocols, build tools for drug repurposing from literature, omics and patient data, and create reusable infrastructure like MCP servers and benchmarks.

Claude · MCP

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Join a small, high-autonomy team building Wayve's Data Transfer Hub, mission-critical infrastructure moving petabytes of sensor data per day from global partners like Uber, Stellantis and Nissan. You'll design and operate large-scale pipelines in Python and Terraform, using Flyte, Kafka and Azure, with ownership of production systems and an out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Flyte · Kafka · Azure +4

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Builds AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations, developing machine learning models, optimisation algorithms and operational simulations. Takes high-impact models from prototype to monitored production, sets technical direction and mentors data scientists while working with engineers, product managers and retail partners.

BigQuery · OR-Tools · SimPy

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Builds AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations, developing machine learning models, optimisation algorithms and operational simulations. Takes high-impact models from prototype to monitored production, sets technical direction and mentors data scientists while working with engineers, product managers and external retail partners.

BigQuery · OR-Tools · SimPy

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Join the Preparedness team to anticipate and mitigate loss-of-control risks from increasingly capable AI systems, potentially culminating in recursive self-improvement. The role spans scalable oversight, automated auditing, monitorability testing, model behaviour science, and coordination/verification mechanisms, alternating between rigorous hypothesis-driven research and building interventions that impact production models.

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Researcher role focused on derisking frontier AI models by developing novel safety mitigations, drawing on interpretability, control, and alignment techniques. You will build and refine evaluations of emerging risks, design red-teaming pipelines, and set research directions, collaborating closely with experts in misalignment, cybersecurity, and biology.

• Hatfield
• On-site
• £39,560 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role developing innovative AI/ML algorithms for predictive modelling and optimisation of agricultural applications from heterogeneous data, as part of an Innovate UK-funded collaborative project. Duties include building AI/ML software tools, data management and analysis, supporting the Principal Investigator on project milestones, and contributing to publications and reports.

TensorFlow · Scikit-Learn · PyTorch +1

• Oxford
• Hybrid · 2–3 days in office
• Permanent

Field-facing role delivering autonomous vehicle projects for industrial customers across ports, airports and yards, combining hands-on engineering at Culham with remote development and support. Involves workflow testing, stakeholder management and identifying process gaps, with domestic and international travel including the UAE.

Linux · Unix

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead original technical research in AI safety, steering projects from initial question to high-impact publication. Work spans interpretability, steering vectors, goal drift, machine unlearning and uncertainty calibration for transformer LLMs and agentic systems, with outputs informing frontier labs and government institutes. Involves building reproducible research code and collaborating with red-teaming and evaluation teams.

PyTorch · Transformer · Metaview

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Leads a small, high-agency research team setting the scientific agenda for AI safety, with a focus on large language models and safety-critical systems. Involves conducting and overseeing red-teaming and evaluations in high-risk domains such as CBRN and cybersecurity, publishing at top conferences, and mentoring researchers while aligning work with commercial goals.

Python · OpenAI o1 · Metaview