Top Research Jobs in London

Supports evidence synthesis research on the use of evidence in policymaking. Responsibilities include documentary and qualitative data collection and analysis, developing research methods, drafting publications, presenting findings, supporting staff and students, addressing project issues, and completing research administration. The role requires relevant academic qualifications, evidence synthesis experience, qualitative analysis skills, clear communication, resource management, and competency with EPPI Reviewer and MAXQDA.

Conduct industry-focused AI research on autonomous agents and world models. Develop models involving large language models, active inference, and optimal policies, including architecture experimentation, fine-tuning, deep-learning agent development, and action optimization. Candidates will work on real-world enterprise problems while pursuing cutting-edge research during a fixed-term three- or six-month fellowship.

Leads compliance initiatives and audits of financial professional offices, evaluates regulatory adherence, documents findings, communicates deficiencies, supports remediation, trains team members, improves procedures, and provides compliance guidance. The role requires managing multiple audits, follow-ups, travel logistics, regulatory updates, and escalated issues while maintaining FINRA licensing and industry knowledge.

Supports research in Medical Education focused on compassion and empathy. Conducts defined research activities, contributes to project team delivery, and works with project leads to meet study requirements. The role is part-time, fixed-term for 24 months, with potential hybrid working. Applicants must provide a CV and cover letter and demonstrate the right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.

The Policy and Research Manager develops evidence-based policy positions on qualifications, assessment, curriculum and education reform. Responsibilities include monitoring political and regulatory developments, commissioning and analyzing research, producing policy papers and consultation responses, building relationships with policymakers and sector stakeholders, translating complex evidence into recommendations, and representing AQA at forums and events. The role requires strong policy, research, stakeholder engagement, communication, analytical and project-management skills.

Maintain the Linux desktop platform, including OS image build pipelines, provisioning tooling, security, monitoring, hardware lifecycle, and system health. Troubleshoot bare-metal and virtual machine provisioning across OpenStack and Ironic, support technical users, manage incidents and changes, and contribute to capacity planning. The role requires strong Linux administration, Python scripting, infrastructure automation, security, diagnostics, and communication skills.

Build and lead the Platform Desktop Engineering team, owning service availability, security, performance, support, roadmap, provisioning, image builds, automation, monitoring, hardware lifecycle, capacity, and budget. The role requires hands-on Linux expertise, production service ownership, enterprise security judgment, stakeholder management, and collaboration across infrastructure, security, identity, support, and HR teams.

Lead ARIA’s equity, diversity and inclusion strategy across people practices, R&D funding, governance, procurement, events and organisational decision-making. Review systems for structural barriers, improve inclusive funding processes, measure progress, advise senior leaders, facilitate stakeholder collaboration, design training, and promote accountability and belonging. The role requires balancing strategic leadership with practical implementation, using data and lived experience to drive equitable outcomes.

Recruit exceptional software engineering talent through proactive sourcing, market mapping, networking, referrals, and relationship-building. The role manages long-term talent pipelines, partners with engineering leaders and hiring managers, champions candidates, informs recruitment strategy, and contributes to employer branding and candidate experience improvements.

Leads genetic modification, cryopreservation, rederivation, and colony management services for genetically altered laboratory animals. Performs hands-on laboratory work, oversees projects and pipelines, troubleshoots complex technical challenges, develops protocols, manages resources, and supports service improvement. Provides technical leadership, supervision, training, and collaboration across research teams while ensuring accurate records, regulatory compliance, health and safety, and high-quality delivery.

Develop and post-train deep learning models while building systems, tooling, and workflows for training, evaluation, debugging, and deployment. Contribute to open-source projects, distributed AI infrastructure, backend services, and developer platforms. Collaborate with research, product, infrastructure, and customer teams to solve complex technical problems, prototype ideas, and productionize successful experiments.

Lead research on generative models and learned representations for 3D engineering geometry. Design and train models using representations, latent spaces, and physics-based objectives; evaluate outputs with production numerical solvers; formulate engineering problems with ML and simulation teams; guide research direction, mentor colleagues, and publish findings. The role focuses on geometric deep learning, generative modeling, neural fields, and coupling geometry generation with physical objectives.

Leads European leveraged finance credit research covering high-yield and distressed credits. Manages nine analysts, directs coverage strategy, restructuring and recovery analysis, and oversees timely research publication with actionable investment ideas. Establishes KPIs and best practices, mentors talent, collaborates with legal, editorial, commercial, and marketing teams, and maintains client and industry relationships. Requires advanced financial modeling, valuation, credit analysis, and team leadership expertise.

Own high-volume reconciliations, invoicing, payments, finance operations, month-end close, management accounts, controls, and audit preparation. Build automated finance workflows using data and AI tooling, maintain accurate financial records, and partner with engineering, product, and go-to-market teams. This controller-track role also supports investor reporting and finance infrastructure for geographic and product expansion.

Improve Nous’s operational systems, workflows, tools, automations, and processes as the company scales. Responsibilities include supporting members, identifying repeated work and failure points, documenting procedures, building AI-assisted automations, investigating root causes, and collaborating with product, engineering, data, and operations teams to create robust, scalable workflows.

Build and scale Nous’s household-finance products and agentic capabilities as an end-to-end product engineer. Own problems from discovery through deployment and measurable outcomes, working across full-stack systems, workflows, orchestration, data, and internal tooling. Collaborate closely with product, design, legal, commercial, and operations teams in small autonomous squads. The role emphasizes rapid experimentation, scalable architecture, full-stack TypeScript development, AI engineering, and creating safe tooling that enables others to ship effectively.

Lead high-leverage, cross-team engineering bets from ambiguous problem definition through hands-on delivery. Build full-stack product capabilities, establish reusable patterns and paved roads, improve workflows, infrastructure, front-end platforms, data and agentic AI systems, and mentor other engineers. Ship incremental production changes, create technical clarity, and influence company direction while remaining an individual contributor reporting to the CTO.

Support customer acquisition and growth initiatives at an AI-native startup. Own automation and scaling for an influencer marketing program, including creator sourcing, onboarding, briefing, testing, and performance analysis. Explore acquisition channels, improve landing pages and messaging, support conversion optimization, and build internal tools to automate processes. The role requires commercial instincts, analytical thinking, rapid learning, ownership, and comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Analyze commercial performance across growth, product, and pricing teams. Build models, dashboards, funnels, experiments, and reporting to guide investment and scaling decisions. Partner with founders and senior leaders to explain performance drivers, evaluate new channels and revenue streams, optimize conversion, and support commercial negotiations. The role requires strong analytical judgment, SQL and spreadsheet fluency, experimentation skills, commercial instinct, clear communication, and comfort working quickly in an ambiguous, high-growth startup environment.

Designs, administers, and improves Linux-based HPC infrastructure supporting biomedical research, AI/ML, bioinformatics, data processing, and simulation. Responsibilities include managing compute, storage, networking, schedulers, containers, scientific software, monitoring, automation, security patches, disaster recovery, and workflow performance. The role supports researchers through troubleshooting, training, documentation, onboarding, stakeholder engagement, and development of reproducible computational environments and scalable research services.

Provide first-line data support to quantitative researchers and traders, troubleshoot data access and quality issues with data engineers, manage JIRA workflows, document data processes, onboard and train users, and help expand data coverage through live collection and backfills.

Lead end-to-end quantitative B2B market research projects for professional audiences across study design, screening, questionnaires, platform setup, fieldwork, analysis, reporting, and presentations. Advise consultancy and corporate clients on feasibility, methodology, and research decisions. Collaborate with Sales and Account Management on scoping, improve B2B research processes, and coach researchers while ensuring quality and timely delivery.

Manage a portfolio of B2B customers throughout onboarding and the customer lifecycle. Build relationships, develop success plans, monitor product usage and customer health, drive adoption and retention, deliver customer reviews and training, identify churn risks and expansion opportunities, and collaborate with Sales, Product, Marketing, Support, and Retention teams. Maintain accurate account records and contribute to scalable customer success processes and engagement programs.

Leads pharmacy support for global clinical trials, serving as a subject matter expert on investigational product handling, preparation, administration, storage, accountability, hazardous drug management, and site readiness. Develops pharmacy training and guidance, supports quality and inspection readiness, manages pharmacy vendors and contractors, advises on CSTD implementation, and drives process improvements across oncology and other clinical development programs.

Conduct research and track market data across emerging technologies while contributing to live projects alongside senior team members. The intern will work independently and collaboratively in multidisciplinary, multinational teams. This is a part-time role capped at 20 hours per week with a minimum 12-month commitment, based in a London office with potential hybrid flexibility after demonstrating proficiency.