Machine Learning Jobs in Edinburgh

CureAge Therapeutics · London

Lead the computationally guided design of a lipid nanoparticle delivery platform, applying chemical and biophysical principles to optimise LNP composition and formulation. Use AI-enabled chemistry, cheminformatics, predictive models and molecular modelling to prioritise formulation components, working closely with the experimental team and founding team in a small start-up.

Hadean · London

Lead a new AI-powered defence product team, line-managing AI/ML, simulation, infrastructure and web engineers while staying hands-on in TypeScript, React and Node. You own delivery end-to-end, hiring and people development, partnering with Product and technical leads, with hybrid working one day a week in Shoreditch.

Interface Recruitment · Leeds

Lead a team of four to own the innovation agenda at an FCA-regulated asset manager, translating technology strategy into actionable roadmaps and championing AI, machine learning and intelligent automation. Assess, pilot and adopt emerging technologies while ensuring governance, security, resilience and regulatory alignment, and report on the innovation pipeline's benefits, risks and progress.

AI Security Institute · London · £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Engineers at all levels build and scale the shared tooling and infrastructure behind the institute's AI safety research, from Inspect plugins and large-scale evaluation systems to model hosting and secure proxy infrastructure. Work spans open-source collaboration, supporting research teams with custom setups, and hardening infrastructure for frontier model evaluations.

Cohere · London

Drive safety research for agentic LLMs, focusing on data generation, post-training algorithms and evaluation methods so models that access external tools and act in the world remain fair, trustworthy and secure. Work with cross-functional ML, data annotation, product and policy teams on a small, autonomous team, requiring strong statistics, software engineering and Python/PyTorch skills.

Amazon · Edinburgh

Builds machine learning recommendation systems that match job seekers to roles and recruiters to talent across Amazon Jobs and internal hiring platforms. Works on representation learning, reinforcement learning and probabilistic modelling at global scale, with a focus on fairness and explainability, alongside engineers, scientists and product managers through the full development lifecycle.

AI Security Institute · London · £65,000 – £145,000 pa

The Chem Bio team researches, evaluates and mitigates chemical and biological risks from frontier AI systems, running capability evaluations, building benchmarks and datasets, and developing safeguards and monitoring methods. Findings are shared with frontier AI companies, UK officials and allied governments to inform deployment and policy. The role is open to research engineers and scientists at all seniority levels, with appointment conditional on obtaining UK Government Developed Vetting clearance.

AI Security Institute · London

Senior individual contributor building the shared platform, tooling and infrastructure for an interdisciplinary chem-bio research team, including LLM-based agent systems and evaluation frameworks. Works closely with researchers to translate varied needs into maintainable Python systems, while contributing to engineering standards and mentoring peers without line management.