Top Research Jobs in London

Owns European sponsorship, thought leadership, hospitality, and business development programmes for a professional services firm. Responsibilities include negotiating sponsorships, managing events, researching accounts and competitors, maintaining CRM data, administering budgets, coordinating with US and European teams, and providing actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Research alternative data providers and datasets, write reports on datasets and industry trends, and communicate findings to data buyers and sellers through calls and email. The role involves building industry relationships, translating complex datasets into actionable intelligence, and developing expertise in alternative data. Strong writing, communication, critical thinking, curiosity, and relationship-building skills are essential; advanced data science experience is not required.

Designs and delivers health questionnaire research, including psychometric validation, survey and experiment design, statistical analysis, data quality investigation, and bias assessment. The role uses Qualtrics, R, or Python to manage studies and analyse data, while communicating actionable findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. It also involves developing protocols, securing approvals, managing multiple projects, and collaborating with questionnaire scientists and organisational teams.

Research and develop methods for detecting misalignment and loss-of-control risks in frontier AI systems. Build alignment evaluations, conduct pre-deployment testing, analyze model behavior, investigate incidents, and communicate findings to AI companies and governments. The role also involves designing evaluation software and tooling, publishing technical research, threat modeling, and mentoring collaborators. Candidates need substantial AI safety or alignment research experience, strong Python and machine learning engineering skills, and experience with frameworks such as PyTorch or Inspect.

Design, deploy, configure, operate, and improve a bare-metal quantitative trading platform. Responsibilities include managing physical infrastructure, trading application environments, observability systems, and intent-driven platform management. Participate in on-call rotations, resolve critical production issues, collaborate with traders, researchers, developers, and service providers, and convert operational fixes into engineered solutions.

Lead qualitative public opinion research across political and policy topics, overseeing project design, discussion guides, focus groups, immersive research, interviews, analysis, reporting, and client advising. Moderate research nationally and internationally, contribute to media engagement and new business, shape team strategy and processes, and manage and develop junior researchers. The role requires strong UK political understanding, excellent writing, project management, and confident communication with senior clients and journalists.

Conduct quantitative analysis of global commodity markets using mathematical and programming techniques. Work with traders, shipping, and IT to evaluate supply and demand, forecast market trends, develop analytical tools, and generate data-driven insights supporting commercial trading strategies. The placement requires strong numerical ability, commercial awareness, resilience, initiative, and effective communication in a team environment.

Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and newsworthy insights; create reports, dashboards, charts, maps, and visualizations; support data-driven journalism and development projects; collaborate with journalists, editors, designers, and developers; and translate findings into actionable recommendations for business and user experience improvements.

Research and evaluate external investment managers across private market debt and equity strategies. Build financial models, assess performance, risk, valuations, cash flows, fees, and portfolio construction, while monitoring existing managers. Prepare investment recommendations, committee materials, client presentations, and portfolio reviews. Support client relationships, strategic asset allocation, market research, manager onboarding, and cross-functional initiatives with legal, compliance, operations, risk, and sustainability teams.

Lead the behavioral science and AI research behind Derin, an adaptive healthcare research platform. Design conversational interviewing methods, validation studies, respondent safeguards, evaluation rubrics, annotations, and performance pipelines. Publish scientific and client-ready evidence while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Client Engagement. The role requires expertise in qualitative and quantitative research, hands-on LLM product evaluation, and the ability to translate research into scalable product capabilities.

Leads ARIA’s commercial and funding operations, partnering with Programme Directors to design funding strategies, calls, selection processes, due diligence, and signed awards. Oversees procurement, supplier management, negotiations, governance, compliance, risk, and commercial policies. The role manages the function and team, builds scalable systems and playbooks, supports complex transactions, advises executives on pipelines and risks, and maintains effective relationships with government and commercial stakeholders.

Leads clinical trial site management and monitoring across assigned protocols, ensuring ICH/GCP, regulatory, quality, and patient-safety compliance. Conducts site selection, validation, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits; manages documentation, recruitment, deviations, audits, and corrective actions. Partners with investigators, vendors, regulators, and internal teams, maintains CTMS and eTMF records, supports process improvement, mentors junior CRAs, and travels domestically and internationally 65–75% of the time.

Lead Autodesk Research’s portfolio of construction-focused programs spanning research projects, experiments, prototypes, and partnerships. Build integrated plans, align priorities, coordinate multidisciplinary stakeholders, manage budgets and resources, and connect emerging AI, BIM, digital twin, and construction technology research to strategic outcomes. The role requires construction domain fluency, strong facilitation, executive communication, and the ability to create structure amid ambiguity across global teams.

Senior Reporter covering international white-collar crime, corporate wrongdoing, enforcement, sanctions, and regulatory developments. Responsibilities include breaking exclusive stories, conducting court and document-based reporting, producing news, features, analysis, and data-driven work, representing the brand externally, contributing to major editorial projects, and supporting junior reporters. The role requires strong legal and regulatory understanding, source development, sound news judgment, deadline management, and accurate, independent reporting.

Drive membership growth through new member acquisition, account development, relationship management, outreach, networking, presentations, and sponsorship sales support. Maintain Salesforce records, represent the organization at industry events, and collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high-quality member experience. The role requires strong communication, commercial awareness, organization, CRM proficiency, and confidence engaging senior professionals.

Assist managers and directors with UK R&D tax relief claims for complex business clients. Responsibilities include learning tax legislation and relief schemes, participating in technical interviews, documenting R&D projects, writing claim reports, gathering financial data, and calculating eligible R&D expenditure. The role is client-facing from the outset and requires collaboration with senior technical and finance stakeholders.

Own a portfolio of European and UK equities, producing dividend forecasts through financial statement analysis, earnings calls, market news, peer benchmarking, and modeling. Build institutional client relationships, respond to research inquiries, author market research reports, improve financial models, and collaborate with sales, product, research, data, and company contacts to enhance insights and products.

Delivers qualitative and mixed-methods research on energy, environmental, and climate policy. Applies behavioural science frameworks, conducts interviews, focus groups, literature reviews, and evidence synthesis, and develops actionable recommendations for clients. Manages research projects and workstreams, client relationships, fieldwork, reports, presentations, and stakeholder engagement. Supports thought leadership, proposals, and business development while contributing to policy and advisory projects focused on decarbonisation, sustainability, behaviour change, and public attitudes.

Supports quantitative and qualitative social research and evaluation projects from design through reporting. Responsibilities include drafting questionnaires and fieldwork materials, managing fieldwork, reviewing evidence, checking data, analyzing findings, preparing reports and presentations, liaising with clients and suppliers, monitoring budgets, and quality assuring deliverables. The role focuses on employment, welfare, skills, government, and public affairs research.

Build production data pipelines that transform third-party datasets into research-ready data and live signals. Partner with quantitative researchers to engineer features, develop signals, validate and normalize data, and use LLM-based agents to automate ingestion-to-signal workflows. The role also involves creating reusable tools that help researchers and data scientists scale their work.

Senior HR Business Partner advising Institutional Equities and Research leaders across EMEA. Responsibilities include workforce planning, organizational design, succession, talent, performance, compensation, employee relations, restructuring, regulatory matters, workforce analytics, and inclusion. The role partners with senior stakeholders and global HR teams to deliver strategic people solutions in a complex, regulated financial-services environment.

Design, build, deploy, and operate systematic interest rate swaps trading systems covering pricing, risk projection, hedging, and execution. Develop research infrastructure, backtesting and simulation tools, quantitative models, signal pipelines, and analytics over large datasets. Analyze trading data, improve strategies, support live trading, resolve incidents, and enhance monitoring and controls.

Develop automated safety evaluations, red-teaming methods, reproducible experiments, and monitoring tools for scientific AI models, agents, and tool-mediated workflows. Investigate failure modes, assess evaluator quality, collaborate with domain experts and mitigation engineers, and translate findings into improved safeguards. The role may follow a Research Scientist or Research Engineer path, emphasizing either empirical research and experimental design or reliable research software and evaluation infrastructure.

Manages predominantly quantitative research and evaluation projects from inception through final reporting. Responsibilities include survey and questionnaire design, data specifications, data quality checks, project planning, budget and risk management, client and supplier communication, report and presentation writing, proposal development, and mentoring junior researchers. The role also interprets data to produce insights and applies AI tools to improve research delivery.

Conduct quantitative research supporting fixed-income portfolio construction, optimization, trading processes, and execution strategies. Collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, researchers, and technologists to develop systematic approaches, re-engineer portfolio processes, implement signals, and solve large-scale construction problems. Clearly communicate technical findings to senior stakeholders while delivering rigorous, practical investment solutions.