1 to 25 of 54 Permanent PhD Jobs in Scotland

Grid Insights Architect

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Power Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field (equivalent experience will be accepted)* A minimum of 6 years’ experience post-PhD (12 years post bachelors degree) with development and deployment experience of practical algorithms in production systems,* Leadership skills, as proven by a record of increasing ...

Applied AIML Lead Research Engineer

Location
Auchentibber, Scotland, United Kingdom
e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR), or equivalent open-source/applied-research contributions in LLMs, fine-tuning, or efficient inference MSc or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent applied experience Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with speech/voice models ...

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Scientist May 14, 2026

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
beats a benchmark. You're at home moving across problem types, from generative models to vision to search. We expect you to bring: PhD or equivalent experience in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or a related quantitative field — 5+ years (Senior) or 8+ years (Staff) of hands‐on applied ...

Summer Placement Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
welcomed from candidates who have completed a first degree and are looking to gain industrial experience prior to commencing a relevant higher degree (i.e. PhD, MSc). Personal Attributes: Self-motivated with lots of drive and enthusiasm Able to use own initiative to achieve overall objectives Able to work under ...

Senior or Principal Firmware / FPGA Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
designs follow the company firmware process.**What you’ll bring**You will, ideally have experience in the following areas:* Degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics or Computer science).* Ability to design RTL using VHDL is essential, knowledge of ...

Applied AI Lead

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
culture of technical excellence through knowledge sharing, pair programming, collaborative debugging and design workshops Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in any STEM subject Practical research experience and a proven track record of applying AI or adjacent techniques to solve real-world problems in industry ...

Staff Software Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Math). Significant and demonstrated years of experience in commercial software development/advanced experience (UK). Desired Technical Expertise: Master’s Degree/PhD in Computer Science. Experience working on software projects in the Energy domain (Energy Management, Oil & Gas, Power & Water). Certified Scrum Master and/ ...

Staff Software Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Math). Significant and demonstrated years of experience in commercial software development/advanced experience (UK). Desired Technical Expertise Master's Degree/PhD in Computer Science. Experience working on software projects in the Energy domain (Energy Management, Oil & Gas, Power & Water). Certified Scrum Master and/ ...

Senior / Principal Energy Consultant - Energy Advisory (UK-Wide)

Hiring Organisation
Jacobs
Location
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP Annual
client-facing, business development, and stakeholder management skills. Degree qualified in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline (Master's degree, PhD, or chartered status desirable). Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring junior staff. Willingness to travel occasionally to client and company locations across the UK. ...

Lead Data Scientist -Platform AI Acceleration

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
ensure regulatory and data-privacy considerations are baked into system design and implementation. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Post Graduate qualification (Masters or PhD) Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics. Building and shipping data-driven/AI-enabledproduction systems, with significant hands-on model development across statistical, classical ML, deep learning ...

Senior or Principal RF Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
manufacturing data packs and provide technical support to sub-contracts and engineering interface with manufacturing Qualifications first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) Proven experience (5 years +) in RF circuit design and analysis and a strong ...

Digital Engineers - All Levels

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
test and to system integration; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to the customer Qualifications First or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) Experience with analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to Hardware designs ...

Systems Engineer - Antenna/Electromagnetic - All Levels

Location
Easter Howgate, Scotland, United Kingdom
build effective relationships with engineers, managers, subject matter experts and customers. It would be nice of you also had: A master’s degree or PhD in a subject such as Physics, Antenna Design, Propagation, Electromagnetics, Microwave engineering, Data Analysis of measured data, etc. Experience in phased array antenna or microwave ...

Senior or Principal RF/Microwave Engineer

Location
Easter Howgate, Scotland, United Kingdom
methods and tools will also help you thrive as part of our team. Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) Proven experience (3 years +) in RF circuit design and analysis and a strong understanding of ...

Senior or Principal MMIC Engineer

Location
Easter Howgate, Scotland, United Kingdom
methods and tools will also help you thrive as part of our team. Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) Proven experience (3 years +) in MMIC circuit design and a strong understanding of microwave techniques ...

AI System Researcher

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving ...

Principal Engineer – AI Productivity Lab

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
knowledge graph technology. Business process optimisation experience (e.g. Business Process Modelling, Lean Six Sigma). Experience with applied research/experimentation. Advanced degree (MSc, PhD) in computer science, artificial intelligence or a related subject. About working for us Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building ...

Project Engineering Lead - AESA and Power Core Delivery Team

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Manager to resolve technical or programme conflicts. Ensure that the design rationale is fully documented. What you’ll bring Degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or a related discipline. Demonstrated broad and deep experience with designing, developing and testing electronic, Radio Frequency (RF) and power systems. ...

Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Dunfermline, Fife, UK
real integration problems on complex systems \n \n What we need from you: \n \n Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) \n Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to hardware designs ...

Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
West Lothian, Scotland, UK
real integration problems on complex systems \n \n What we need from you: \n \n Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) \n Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to hardware designs ...

Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Engineer

Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
of engineers to solve real integration problems on complex systems What we need from you: Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics) Analysing system level requirements documents and understanding their application to hardware designs Schematic capture ...

Principal High-Speed Digital Electronics Design Engineer

Location
Easter Howgate, Scotland, United Kingdom
systems. Apply your technical foundation, ideally grounded in a degree such as Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Physics, or a related field (BSc, BEng, MSc, MEng, PhD, EngD). Translate system‐level requirements into robust hardware designs, working with clarity and precision. Use your schematic capture expertise to bring designs to life. ...

RF Engineers - All levels

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
have personal responsibility to deliver solutions, drawing on collaboration with other teams as required.* Qualifications: first or second degree (BSc, BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD, EngD) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (preferable) or related science (e.g. Physics)* Proven experience (3 years +) in RF circuit design and analysis and a strong understanding ...

Professor and Vice Dean, Natural & Computing Sciences

Location
Aberdeen City, Scotland, United Kingdom
support this key partnership for the University. Our current programme offering is: BSc Artificial Intelligence BSc Business Management and Information Systems PhD in Computing Science (and aligned areas) Our expanded offering will include: MSc Artificial Intelligence MSc Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and Telecommunications The role will be a teaching ...

Power Systems Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
reports, papers and presentations for conference and journal publications Up to 25% travel for customer interaction and project meetings. Qualifications/Requirements MSc or PhD in Electrical Engineering or equivalent knowledge and experience, with preferred focus on Power System Dynamics, Transients, Stability and Control. Must be fluent in English ...