Jobs in Oxford

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Engineering Manager - dominAI

Owns people leadership and end-to-end delivery for a new AI-powered defence product team, line-managing a multidisciplinary group of AI/ML, simulation, infrastructure and web engineers. Stays hands-on in a TypeScript, React and Node codebase while partnering with Product and technical leads, hiring into a growing sub-team and adapting agile delivery to research-shaped AI work.

Hadean London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

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Senior Computational Chemist, LNP Design

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.

CureAge Therapeutics London

Hybrid Permanent Part-time

Senior Researcher in Probabilistic Machine Learning for AI Governence

Lead a research strand on Bayesian methods for evaluating and monitoring AI systems, publishing findings, running the lab's open-source software, producing policy-facing outputs, and guiding research assistants and students. Based in the Bayesian Governance Lab within the Department of Engineering Science, in collaboration with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, on a two-year fixed-term post.

University of Oxford Oxford £49,119 – £59,955 pa

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Machine Learning

Two postdoctoral roles in the Visual Geometry Group, each tied to a separate project funded by Toyota Motor Europe or Amazon. One develops deep reinforcement learning and computer vision for robust visuomotor policies transferring to real robots; the other studies 3D geometry and motion representations for vision-language-action robotic manipulation, including deformable objects, with evaluation on real hardware.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £47,779 pa

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Software Engineer (AWS, Python, C#/C++, CFD/FEA)

Develops core modules for an engineering design platform, wrapping commercial simulation tools and integrating them into automated cloud workflows. Requires production-grade C#, C++ or Python, AWS distributed computing, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and Linux, with CFD or FEA exposure valued. Works in an Agile team on first-of-their-kind engineering challenges.

HAYS Specialist Recruitment Oxford £45,000 – £68,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Flexible

Software Engineer

Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.

Flarebright Bicester £39,000 – £49,000 pa

On-site Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Computer Vision Engineer

This role involves designing and developing advanced computer vision algorithms for object detection, tracking, and 6DoF pose estimation, integrating them into embedded and flight software, and supporting system-level testing and validation. The engineer will lead technical efforts, mentor team members, and collaborate across disciplines including GNC, flight dynamics, and hardware. Work spans algorithm design, sensor integration, and robust deployment in safety-critical or aerospace environments.

Holt Executive Oxfordshire £60,000 – £94,000 pa

Researcher in Large Language Models

Technical researcher on the God and the Machine project, supporting Workstream 1's experimental work with large language models as a computational hermeneutic tool, and contributing to Workstream 2 as a technical expert. Involves deploying and experimenting with local models, including interpretability, activation steering or machine unlearning, using Python and machine-learning frameworks within a theology and religion faculty.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £41,336 pa

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistical Machine Learning for Genomics

Develops novel statistical and machine learning methods for large-scale genomic, phenotypic and health data, covering areas such as genomic language models, multimodal and federated learning, and multi-ancestry methods. The role involves building scalable, reproducible research software, applying it to biobank-scale datasets, publishing findings and guiding junior researchers within the Palamara Group.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £47,779 pa

On-site Contract

Research Associate in Multi-view 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction

Develops 3D reconstruction and multi-view data fusion methods for neonatal cranial ultrasound, validating them on NICU-collected data. Works at the intersection of 3D computer vision, neural rendering and medical image analysis, including physics-informed rendering models for view-dependent acoustic appearance. Based in a multidisciplinary lab with deep learning researchers, software engineers and neonatologists.

University of Oxford Oxford £39,424 – £43,984 pa

Hybrid