Latest research engineer Jobs

Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Codex)

This role involves working closely with startups to integrate Codex and other AI coding tools into their development workflows. Responsibilities include leading technical talks, workshops, and hackathons, building reusable tools, and translating customer feedback into product improvements.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

Permanent

Software Engineer, ChatGPT Infrastructure

Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable systems supporting AI products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. Focus on performance optimization, system resilience, automation, and developer experience across distributed infrastructure. Collaborate with research, product, and engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and observability at global scale.

OpenAI London, United Kingdom

On-site Permanent

Senior CPU Performance Developer Technology Engineer

This role involves deep performance analysis and optimization of cloud and HPC workloads on NVIDIA's CPU architecture. You'll collaborate with developers, researchers, and engineering teams to enhance software stacks and influence next-generation CPU design. The position emphasizes low-level code optimization, benchmarking, and direct contributions to frameworks and libraries.

NVIDIA Bristol, United Kingdom £292,500 – £650,000 pa

Senior CPU Performance Developer Technology Engineer

This role involves deep performance analysis and optimization of cloud and HPC workloads on NVIDIA's CPU architecture. The engineer will collaborate with developers, contribute to software stacks and libraries, and influence future hardware and software design. Focus is on solving complex performance challenges in close partnership with internal teams and external developers.

NVIDIA Switzerland £292,500 – £650,000 pa

Machine Learning Engineer – Ship Design & Hydrodynamics (KTP Associate)

The role involves translating research into commercial solutions by developing and validating physics-informed models for ship resistance, propulsion performance, and energy efficiency. The engineer will also design and implement multidisciplinary optimization methods and extend NeuralShipper’s capabilities to wind-assisted propulsion systems.

University of Southampton Southampton, Hybrid, South East England, United Kingdom £41 – £45 pa

Contract

Principal AI Engineer

The role involves leading AI engineering projects with a focus on high-throughput vision systems using NVIDIA Jetson hardware, multi-modal sensors, and real-time tracking. Responsibilities include AI assurance, edge AI development, and guiding technical strategy across multidisciplinary teams. The position emphasizes research, prototyping, and mentoring within high-stakes AI applications.

Synoptix Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom £65,000 – £85,000 pa

Machine Learning Engineer - Spiking Neural Networks

Develop an engineering-grade spiking neural network engine for machine vision applications in defence and security contexts. Translate advanced research into robust production software using C++ and machine vision techniques. Collaborate with researchers and engineers on SNNs, CNNs, and Transformers, with integration into operational systems.

MFK Recruitment Brentford, London, TW8 9DE, United Kingdom £75,000 – £100,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior MLOps Engineer

Develop and maintain MLOps infrastructure to productionise advanced AI and computer vision models, from distributed training to deployment on cloud and GPU-accelerated edge devices. Work closely with research and engineering teams to build scalable CI/CD pipelines, model registries, and monitoring systems. Operate in high-assurance environments with exposure to defence and security applications.

MFK Recruitment Brentford, London, TW8 9DE, United Kingdom £75,000 – £100,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Software Engineer

This role involves leading software development across AI and computer vision projects, spanning research, product, and service development. The engineer will contribute to all stages of the SDLC, from design to deployment, while working in multidisciplinary teams. Emphasis is placed on innovation, technical leadership, and applying expertise in low-TRL technology development.

Synoptix Broomhill, City Of Bristol, Bristol (county), BS4 4SE, United Kingdom £51,000 – £60,500 pa

Senior AI Engineer

This role involves designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade AI platforms, transforming AI research into production systems. You'll work on complex AI services, data pipelines, and cloud-native architectures, collaborating with Data Scientists and Software Engineers to productionize ML and NLP models.

Infused Solutions London, United Kingdom £65,000 – £75,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Flexible

AI Engineer

This role involves leading the technical delivery of AI, Machine Learning, and Algorithmic projects for Defence and Security customers. You will act as a technical lead, provide oversight, and work directly with clients to define requirements and deliver innovative solutions. The position offers opportunities for technical leadership and business development.

Meritus Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom £50,000 – £90,000 pa

Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

This role involves owning and scaling the Kubernetes control plane for large AI training clusters, including customizing the scheduler for topology-aware ML workloads and ensuring high availability under extreme scale. The engineer will build core platform services like service discovery, develop controllers and operators, and collaborate closely with research and infrastructure teams. The position demands deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes internals, and debugging complex production issues across cloud environments.

Anthropic London, United Kingdom £325,000 – £485,000 pa

On-site Permanent

NLP Engineer

This role involves developing and maintaining Python-based NLP services that extract and process information from complex documents such as PDFs and Word files. The engineer will work on live production systems, debugging and enhancing document-processing pipelines using both traditional NLP techniques and modern LLMs. The position emphasizes practical engineering in a customer-facing SaaS environment, with a focus on robust, scalable solutions for real-world document intelligence.

Avanti Recruitment St. Peter's, London, United Kingdom £45,000 – £70,000 pa

Performance Engineer (Junior) | AI Infrastructure | Cambridge

This role involves working alongside senior engineers to build performance models and calculators for AI infrastructure, predicting the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of different setups. You'll work with real metrics from live training and inference jobs, using your strong background in computer architecture and experience with GPU code and profiling tools.

Pure Resourcing Solutions Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom £55,000 – £70,000 pa

Hybrid

Platform Engineer

Design and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure to support AI and ML workflows in cross-functional teams. Enable data scientists and ML engineers through reusable infrastructure-as-code and best practices. Work with clients to implement cutting-edge solutions using modern DevOps and cloud technologies.

Faculty London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent