13 of 13 Experimental Design Jobs in the Thames Valley

AI Researcher

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
outcomes, proofs of concept and transferable technical capability. The role will contribute novel AI methods, research assets, technical reports, publications, invention disclosures and reusable experimental approaches to Thales UK’s internal catalogue of capabilities, accelerating responsible AI adoption across programmes. The role will connect with data, digital, research … translate this into product. Highly advantageous if you’ve supported or led bids/bid requirements. Key Responsibilities and Tasks: Conduct applied and experimental AI research to solve complex customer and business problems across defence, aerospace, cyber security, rail, critical national infrastructure and related domains. Develop state-of ...

Research Engineer - Model Ablation AI & Robotics Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
summary Autonomous Labs is building the next generation of AI-driven scientific laboratories, with the mission of automating the entire scientific discovery workflow - from experimental design and execution to analysis and iterative learning. Foundation models are a core component of this vision, enabling intelligent, adaptive, and autonomous … source the data needed to move model performance, working closely with domain experts across the laboratory to specify, collect, and curate high-value experimental datasets. Design and maintain scalable experimentation pipelines for model training, evaluation, benchmarking, and reproducible research. Analyse experimental results using rigorous scientific methodologies ...

Quantum Engineer - QEC Hardware

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
inner error-detection and outer error-correction layers. The Role Working within OQC’s Quantum Science & Exploratory Research team, you’ll combine hands‐on experimental physics, scientific software development and quantum processor characterisation. You’ll take ownership of research and development projects across their full lifecycle—from designing experiments … correction. This role may involve occasional domestic and international travel for scientific conferences and collaborative research programmes. What You’ll Be Working On Develop experimental measurement methods to characterise quantum error‐correction components and subroutines. Bring up, calibrate and evaluate novel research devices, often operating prototype hardware in unconventional ...

Senior Quantum Engineer - QSER

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
performance of future quantum processing units. The Role You’ll be a senior member of our Quantum Science & Exploratory Research team, combining hands‐on experimental research with technical leadership, project ownership and mentoring. Working across superconducting quantum circuits, processor characterisation, calibration, benchmarking and cryogenic measurement systems, you’ll investigate … qubit design, packaging and quantum‐processing infrastructure. You’ll also help shape the QSER roadmap, coordinate the resources required to deliver experimental programmes and support the development of Quantum Engineers across the team. What You’ll Be Working On Lead complex scientific research projects from initial concept ...

QRF Lead Scientist

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
quantum RF (QRF) systems in the UK. The Lead Scientist is the scientific authority within a portfolio, responsible for the physics-led direction, experimental strategy, scientific performance, technical interpretation, and scientific risk management. The role combines hands on technical leadership with team leadership and review, ensuring that experimental … project manager to document these clearly in the risk register along with mitigation strategies. Provide hands on technical leadership where required, including review of experimental plans, results, and technical conclusions. Lead, mentor, and line-manage the portfolio science team. Work closely with the engineering team to ensure scientific requirements ...

Senior Data Scientist - LeapSpace

Location
Slough, England, United Kingdom
operate as a senior individual contributor with growing technical leadership responsibilities. Key responsibilities Search & Retrieval Development Play a leading role in the design and optimization of lexical, vector, and hybrid retrieval systems at scale. Help architect and improve RAG pipelines, including retrieval strategies, prompt design … recall, ranking quality) GenAI evaluation (e.g., grounding, faithfulness, hallucination detection) Contribute to development of evaluation datasets, gold standards, and annotation strategies. Guide and review experimental design, including offline evaluation and A/B testing, ensuring statistical rigor and validity. Contribute to responsible AI practices, including bias, fairness ...

Quantum Control Engineer

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
processors through advanced control theory, pulse optimisation and rigorous processor characterisation. You’ll develop and validate techniques that improve gate fidelity and stability, turning experimental breakthroughs into scalable calibration capabilities while providing insight that shapes future chip design. The Role As a Quantum Engineer specialising in control … experimentally validate high-fidelity single- and two-qubit operations. Design, optimise and benchmark pulse shapes using quantum control, numerical optimisation and experimental techniques. Characterise gate error mechanisms, including coherent error, leakage, crosstalk, drift and control-chain distortion. Build robust experimental pipelines, data-analysis workflows and performance ...

Senior AI Engineer

Location
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
Operations, Data & Analytics, Security & Quality Compliance, Transformation, Application Development, and Enterprise Platforms. Key Responsibilities Job Overview Architecture and technical strategy Contribute to the design and architecture of core platform components and evaluation systems, making the load‐bearing technical decisions and bearing accountability for their reliability, scalability, and long … regression signals – and build dashboards and reporting that turn those signals into actionable decisions. Drive engineering rigor in delivery through testing discipline, reproducibility, sound experimental design, and statistically defensible measurement of model quality. Technical leadership Provide technical leadership on the team's most ambiguous and highest‐impact ...

Media Measurement Manager (Marketing Science)

Location
Slough, England, United Kingdom
other incrementality tests that show, with real statistical rigour, what's driving growth and what isn't. You'll take these from initial design through to the final recommendation, and you'll be the person other teams planning, strategy, digital, data science come to for a straight answer … used to read digital campaign performance Grow the measurement team's capability and mentor more junior analysts What you'll need: Solid grounding in experimental design and causal inference — you've actually run tests like this before, not just read about them Comfortable moving between econometrics, digital ...

(Senior) Group Leader, Advanced Genome Technologies - Plant Biology Institute Plant Biology Ins[...]

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
novel DNA/RNA delivery systems. To work with internal teams to define the path to impact for the research program. To design and execute research programs and to ensure that all research programs are value and purpose driven. To recruit and lead a top talent team of … independent thinking necessary to lead a programme of cutting‐edge research and to shape the overall aims and success of the group. Drive rigorous experimental design, execution, and data interpretation, ensuring robust and reproducible scientific outcomes. Managing research program through stage gated milestones, with active, no/ ...

AI Researcher: Responsible ML & Prototyping for Defence

Location
Reading, England, United Kingdom
security domains. This hybrid role collaborates with AI engineers, data scientists and product teams to translate research into demonstrators and PoCs. You will design experiments, evaluate models, report findings, and contribute to publications, patents and reusable research assets while ensuring responsible AI practices and #J-18808-Ljbffr ...

Senior Scientist, Automated Diagnostic Systems - Pathogen Pathogen Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
with experience developing automated molecular diagnostics, analytical instruments, or cartridge-based platforms, and translating manual laboratory processes into scalable automated systems. Key Responsibilities Design and execute robust experiments to generate high-quality data and inform technical decisions. Translate molecular biology workflows into automated processes for integration within … assay robustness, reproducibility, and scalability. Collaborate closely with biologists, chemists, and engineers to integrate biological workflows into automated systems. Provide technical leadership by defining experimental strategies, prioritising risks, and supporting prototype development. Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Biochemistry ...

NPI Manufacturing Engineer

Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
WILL BE DOING NPI and Industrialisation Coordinate pilot and pre‐production build activities, capturing issues, actions and learning between build iterations. Provide practical design‐for‐manufacture, design‐for‐assembly and design‐for‐test input across optical, mechanical, electronic, fluidic and sensing‐chemistry interfaces. Review … identifying manufacturing issues and documentation gaps. Manufacturing Process and Quality Develop, document and release assembly, inspection, calibration and end‐of‐line test processes. Design or specify tooling, jigs, fixtures and test equipment required for repeatable production. Establish appropriate process controls, acceptance criteria, traceability and production records. Investigate build ...