Research Engineer Jobs in the UK

151 to 175 of 224 Research Engineer Jobs in the UK

Research Engineer – VIO / SLAM / Computer Vision

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
European Tech Recruit
We are looking for a Research Engineer (senior/lead/expert level) to join a rapidly growing company at the forefront of Spatial AI, delivering advanced perception solutions in robotics, logistics, & automation. This position offers the chance to lead innovation in Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) SLAM, bridging research with real-world deployment. They are offering hybrid … working from a commutable distance from London . As a Research Engineer your responsibilities will include: Design & implement cutting-edge SLAM & perception algorithms for real-time localization, mapping, & scene understanding. Build robust Spatial AI systems optimized for real-world applications. Collaborate with product & engineering teams to transform R&D breakthroughs into practical robotics & automation solutions. Contribute to advancing … applied Spatial AI within a team of domain experts. As a Research Engineer your skills will include: Master's or PhD in computer vision, robotics, or a related field. 5+ years' experience Deep knowledge of SLAM, computer vision & VIO Strong background in optimization, sensor fusion & numerical linear algebra Experience deploying SLAM in industrial or embedded environments Preferred Familiarity More ❯
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Research Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom
Meta
Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Large Language Model (LLM) Research team. We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art LLMs, which we often open-source, like our team’s recent Llama 2. We are looking for engineers who have a background in generative AI and NLP, with experience … training and inference; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling. Responsibilities Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in large language models. Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns. Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results. Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit … large and globally distributed team. Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing. Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact. Programming experience in Python More ❯
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Horizons)

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Anthropic
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Horizons) London, UK About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We aim for AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society. Our team is a growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role … As a Research Engineer on the Reinforcement Learning Fundamentals team, you will collaborate with researchers and engineers to advance the capabilities and safety of large language models through fundamental research in reinforcement learning, enhancing reasoning abilities in areas like code generation and mathematics, and exploring reinforcement learning for agentic/open-ended tasks. Representative projects: Develop and … machine learning, reinforcement learning, or high-performance computing Have experience with virtualization and sandboxed code execution environments Have experience with Kubernetes Have contributed to open-source projects or published research papers in relevant fields Candidates need not have: Formal certifications or educational credentials Prior experience with LLMs or machine learning research Deadline to apply: Rolling review; no fixed More ❯
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Senior Research Engineer - London Office

London, England, United Kingdom
Flow Traders
Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join us in our London office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. As a … Senior Research Engineer, you will be responsible for helping to lead the development of our trading model research framework and its integration with our platform for deploying/running those models in production. You'll be responsible for expanding the current (limited) scope of the framework and platform to become the global standard way of training, consuming … combining, and transforming any data source in a data-driven systematic way. What you will do Lead the development and global rollout of our research framework for defining and training models through various optimization procedures (supervised learning, backtesting etc.), as well as its integration with our platform for deploying and running those models in production Develop tools/frameworks More ❯
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Horizons) London, UK

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Alcides Fonseca
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Horizons) London, UK About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build … beneficial AI systems. About the role: As a Research Engineer on the Reinforcement Learning Fundamentals team, you will collaborate with a diverse group of researchers and engineers to advance the capabilities and safety of large language models through fundamental research in reinforcement learning, improving reasoning abilities in areas such as code generation and mathematics, and exploring reinforcement … code environments. Experience with Kubernetes. Contributed to open-source projects or published relevant research. Candidates need not have: Formal certifications or educational credentials. Experience with LLMs or machine learning research prior. Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The expected salary range for this position is: Logistics Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree in a More ❯
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Research Software Engineer – Geospatial Software Developer

Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester has an exciting opportunity for a Research Software Engineer – Geospatial Software Developer with expertise and experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geospatial Software Development. You will join an interdisciplinary project team to help support the technical development of the £8m NERC funded Digital Solutions Programme. NERC’s Digital Solutions programme, based at the … ArcGIS Image Server, ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Server, ArcGIS Notebook Server, etc is also essential, as is proficiency in scripting using the ArcGIS Python API. Purpose of the Role As a Research Software Engineer working on this programme, you will collaborate with academics, post-doctoral researchers, software engineers and a broad user community, working closely with Programme Director Professor Richard … Kingston. Your core responsibility involves designing, modifying, and implementing software systems to meet specific research requirements. You will identify and apply software engineering concepts to practical designs, offering development expertise, consultancy, and guidance. The role encompasses software development, service development, problem solving for users, documentation creation, community building, software installation and configuration, maintaining licensing compliance, ensuring compatibility with current More ❯
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Software Engineer, Research Platform

London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Mistral AI
we can make a meaningful impact. See more about our culture on https://mistral.ai/careers . Role Summary We are seeking a talented and experienced software engineer to join our Research Platform team. You'll work closely with the research and infrastructure team to improve the stability, scalability and velocity across the research … will be involved in creating and maintaining internal tools, empowering researchers to make out the most of high performance clusters, building and scaling a future proof CI. Reporting line: Research Engineering Lead Location: What you will do As a Platform Engineer, your responsibilities will include (but may not be limited to): • Designing and implementing complex systems (e.g. scale … our research CI with a strong focus toward reliability, reproducibility and speed)s • Building flexible yet solid and accessible development environment for researchers, so they can focus on core mission. • Designing, implementing and advocating for solutions addressing large amounts of data and maintainable data pipelines. • Optimizing a variety of builds: container images, large libraries compilation times, python environments... • Building More ❯
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Research & Development Engineer

St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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The R&D Engineer on Embedded and Linux systems position is a worker role designing and developing the software and firmware of our security systems and building energy management systems Development is in C/C++ and includes maintaining and porting Linux kernels to ARM-based processors, plus also creating custom drivers and applications in C/C++. The … beating products. Your required skills are: Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent At least four years of experience as a professional embedded engineer Real-time embedded system design, development, debugging and support Strong problem solving and debugging skills Bare board bring-up, low-level drivers, start-up code C and Assembler experience More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Research & Development Engineer

Hail Weston, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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The R&D Engineer on Embedded and Linux systems position is a worker role designing and developing the software and firmware of our security systems and building energy management systems Development is in C/C++ and includes maintaining and porting Linux kernels to ARM-based processors, plus also creating custom drivers and applications in C/C++. The … beating products. Your required skills are: Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent At least four years of experience as a professional embedded engineer Real-time embedded system design, development, debugging and support Strong problem solving and debugging skills Bare board bring-up, low-level drivers, start-up code C and Assembler experience More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Research & Development Engineer

England, United Kingdom
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The R&D Engineer on Embedded and Linux systems position is a worker role designing and developing the software and firmware of our security systems and building energy management systems Development is in C/C++ and includes maintaining and porting Linux kernels to ARM-based processors, plus also creating custom drivers and applications in C/C++. The … beating products. Your required skills are: Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent At least four years of experience as a professional embedded engineer Real-time embedded system design, development, debugging and support Strong problem solving and debugging skills Bare board bring-up, low-level drivers, start-up code C and Assembler experience More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Research Engineer, AWS AI

London, United Kingdom
Amazon
rapidly build, test, and iterate, creating AI solutions that deliver real business value. Join us to leave your mark on the next generation of AI. Key job responsibilities A Research Engineer in the AWS AI team will: Define, design, and lead the development of tools that accelerate science experimentation and delivery. Design and guide the science team's More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Research Engineer - Turing & Ada

London, England, United Kingdom
Longevitylist
leverage to advance the field of drug discovery. Your work will shape our culture, strategic direction, and, most importantly, impact patients’ lives. Join our machine learning team as a Research Engineer, working across both the Turing and Ada projects to develop cutting-edge solutions that push the boundaries of drug discovery and therapeutic discovery. The Turing team focuses … for drug discovery. Your Responsibilities Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, including machine learning scientists, bioinformaticians, and biologists, to advance computational tools for drug discovery. Develop and maintain data processing pipelines, research tools, and production code bases for efficient experimentation and analysis. Apply strong software engineering principles to optimise infrastructure and enable robust and scalable solutions. Bring novel, cutting-edge machine More ❯
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Research Engineer - Brain-Inspired AI Systems (Contractor)

London, England, United Kingdom
Huawei R&D UK
Abo ut Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world. Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every … our efforts and invest patiently to drive technological breakthroughs. This strategic focus is a reflection of our core values: staying customer-centric, inspiring dedication, persevering, growing by reflection. Huawei Research and Development UK Limited Overview Huawei's vision is a fully connected, intelligent world. To achieve this, we work to inspire passion for basic research around the world. … Our combined passion drives development across the global innovation value chain. Huawei has the largest Research and Development organization in the world with 96,000+ employees in research centers around the globe. In the UK, we already have design centers in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Ipswich. We continue to explore and define new research directions and new More ❯
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Research Technology Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom
Berkeley Square IT
for the fair and efficient distribution of work on their compute cluster. This is a full-stack teambuilding one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, which underpins all research for trading - huge impact, in a small team, with enormous resources. The ideal candidate should have: Previous direct experience of high-end Linux System Administration in a similar setting More ❯
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Research & Development May 21, 2025 Software Engineer - SystemOperations Belfast , United Kingdom

Belfast, United Kingdom
GEA Group
more than 18,000 dedicated employees work to enhance the sustainability and efficiency of production processes globally. Your responsibilities and tasks: We are seeking a talented and experienced Software Engineer to join our SystemOperations team. The successful candidate will be responsible for extending our application suite to integrate new devices and develop new features. This role requires a deep … and resolve issues related to application performance and reliability. Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. Your profile and qualifications: Proven experience as a Software Engineer, preferably in a similar domain. Strong proficiency in GraphQL APIs and SQL Databases. Experience with MQTT and Event-Driven Communication. Familiarity with lower-level network protocols such as DHCP More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Machine Learning Research Engineer

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Luminance
This is a fantastic opportunity to join market-leading UK AI company, Luminance. Named in Tech Nation's prestigious Future Fifty list and the recipient of two Queen's Awards, Luminance is the world's most advanced AI technology which More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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LLM/ AI/ Python Software Engineer. AI LLM Research Firm. £120,000 + Equity + Benefits including unlimited holiday.

Greater London, England, United Kingdom
CommuniTech Recruitment Group
LLM/AI/Python Software Engineer. AI LLM Research Firm. £120,000 + Equity + Benefits including unlimited holiday. About the firm The capabilities of current AI systems are evolving at a rapid pace. While these advancements offer tremendous opportunities, they also present significant risks, such as the potential for deliberate misuse or the deployment of sophisticated yet … they aim for a culture that emphasizes truth-seeking, being goal-oriented, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and being friendly and helpful. THE OPPORTUNITY They are seeking a Software Engineer who will enhance their capability to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) through building critical tools and libraries. Your work will directly impact their mission to make AI systems safer … and more aligned. What You'll Accomplish in Your First Year 1. Accelerate their LLM evaluations research by leading the design and implementation of software libraries and tools that underpin their end-to-end research workflows 2. Ensure the reliability of their experimental results by building tools that identify subtle changes in LLM behavior and maintain integrity across More ❯
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LLM/ AI/ Python Software Engineer. AI LLM Research Firm. £120,000 + Equity + Benefits including unli

South East London, England, United Kingdom
CommuniTech Recruitment Group
LLM/AI/Python Software Engineer. AI LLM Research Firm. £120,000 + Equity + Benefits including unlimited holiday. About the firm The capabilities of current AI systems are evolving at a rapid pace. While these advancements offer tremendous opportunities, they also present significant risks, such as the potential for deliberate misuse or the deployment of sophisticated yet … they aim for a culture that emphasizes truth-seeking, being goal-oriented, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and being friendly and helpful. THE OPPORTUNITY They are seeking a Software Engineer who will enhance their capability to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) through building critical tools and libraries. Your work will directly impact their mission to make AI systems safer … and more aligned. What You'll Accomplish in Your First Year 1. Accelerate their LLM evaluations research by leading the design and implementation of software libraries and tools that underpin their end-to-end research workflows 2. Ensure the reliability of their experimental results by building tools that identify subtle changes in LLM behavior and maintain integrity across More ❯
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Machine Learning Engineer/Researcher - 2025 Programme

United Kingdom
WeAreTechWomen
Viridien ( ) is an advanced technology, digital, and Earth data company that pushes the boundaries of science for a more prosperous and sustainable future. With our ingenuity, drive, and deep curiosity, we discover new insights, innovations, and solutions that efficiently and More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Machine Learning Engineer/Researcher - 2025 Programme

London, England, United Kingdom
WeAreTechWomen
Viridien ( www.viridiengroup.com ) is an advanced technology, digital, and Earth data company that pushes the boundaries of science for a more prosperous and sustainable future. With our ingenuity, drive, and deep curiosity, we discover new insights, innovations, and solutions that efficiently More ❯
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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Multimodal

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Menlo Ventures
is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. At Anthropic, we believe the most impactful safety research will require access to frontier AI systems. The most powerful AIs will operate not just on text but also other modes of data, including images, video and audio. Such … these risks. Our team works across many parts of a large stack that includes training, inference, system design and data collection. Some of our core focus areas are: Foundational Research We develop new architectures for modeling multimodal data and study how they interact with text-only models at scale. Building Infrastructure We work on many infrastructure projects including: Complex … at scale. Because we focus on so many areas, the team is looking to work with both experienced engineers and strong researchers, and encourage anyone along the researcher/engineer curve to apply. You may be a good fit if you: Have significant software engineering experience Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact Pick up slack More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Research Engineer - Knowledge Computing / Information Retrieval / LLM

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
European Tech Recruit
Research Engineer - Knowledge Computing/Information Retrieval/LLM We are currently partnered with a world-leading research center in the UK looking to expand their team with a Knowledge Computing Researcher. In this role, you would be working as part of a high calibre team of engineers and researchers to build intelligent agent systems powered by … large language models, knowledge graphs, and multi-modal semantic search. This is a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge research to real-world AI systems with meaningful impact across applications such as intelligent assistants, knowledge-based reasoning, and agent collaboration. This is a permanent opportunity based onsite in Edinburgh, Scotland Key Responsibilities for this Research Engineer position … into agent workflows Develop solutions coupling retrieval (KGs, RAG, databases) with planning, reasoning, and execution logic Collaborate with engineering teams on LLM platforms, search infrastructure, and agent systems Translate research into production-ready applications across AI development tools, QA systems, and assistant use-cases Contribute to core algorithm development and support product scaling initiatives Key Requirements: PhD in NLP More ❯
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Research Software Engineer

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Society of Research Software Engineering
efficient deployment of such solutions - from predictive analytics to medical device-grade decision support tools - in line with policies and processes that it takes the lead in designing. The Research Software Engineer is a key role in this new unit, contributing to the delivery of advanced data engineering solutions to manage large volumes of data effectively. The role … has a particular focus on supporting the technical delivery and implementation of key commercial partnerships, curating viable, deep, longitudinal and anonymised research datasets, with an initial focus on oncology. In doing so, you will support the generation of new insights and cutting-edge applications that enhance patient outcomes, operational efficiency and service transformation. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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SWE - Security Research Engineer, SEAR (Early Career)

London, England, United Kingdom
Apple Inc
SWE - Security Research Engineer, SEAR (Early Career) Help Apple secure the world’s most advanced consumer devices, which people trust to store their personal and professional data. Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) is at the core of Apple’s product security strategy and we’re fanatical about protecting our users. We're looking for an enthusiastic security engineer … our growing team whose focus is on securing the technologies that power some of our most loved features, such as iMessage, FaceTime, Home, and many more. As a security engineer in SEAR, you will lead research and analysis in identifying vulnerabilities and trends across our platforms, invent new defensive technologies to eliminate entire classes of issues, and drive More ❯
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Applied Research Engineer - Synthetic Data

London, England, United Kingdom
techire ai
Shape the future of agentic AI through cutting-edge data strategy Want to pioneer next-generation data techniques for advanced AI systems? This role combines frontier model research with practical implementation at one of Europe's most ambitious AI startups. You'll join a rapidly growing AI Data team developing cutting-edge data-centric approaches that enhance LLMs, VLMs … responsible development. Their approach is comprehensive - building proprietary technology from data to models, focusing on language, multimodal, and vision systems with superior performance and cost-effectiveness. As an Applied Engineer focusing on Data Research, you'll develop sophisticated data strategies that directly impact frontier AI systems: Generate and augment synthetic multimodal datasets for VQA, agent behaviours, and virtual … navigation Apply model distillation techniques to optimise large-scale models for edge deployment Design evaluation frameworks to measure improvements across multiple domains Lead research into aligning data with human and AI preferences Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data-driven solutions This role offers rare access to significant compute resources, with a massive GPU cluster that enables cutting More ❯
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Research Engineer
10th Percentile
£50,000
25th Percentile
£61,250
Median
£80,000