Top Research Jobs in Edinburgh

Conduct mixed-methods research on embedding net-zero skills in higher education. Responsibilities include reviewing literature, interviewing SMEs, surveying university staff, facilitating focus groups, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and producing recommendations, case studies, learning resources, and a net-zero skills framework. The role supports interdisciplinary collaboration across universities, industry, sustainability teams, and climate-change researchers.

Conduct experimental research in ultrafast molecular photochemistry by designing and constructing a time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging apparatus. The role involves imaging ultrafast molecular motion in isolated gas-phase molecules, performing practical laboratory work, and advancing understanding of fundamental photochemical reactivity. The researcher will work within the University of Edinburgh’s School of Chemistry and collaborate with Dr Alice Green’s research team.

Support research on ZHOUPI genes controlling programmed cell death and tissue breakdown in Marchantia polymorpha and other non-seed plants. Duties include plant transformation, molecular cloning, maintaining genetic stocks, conducting mutant screens, and supporting a PDRA while collaborating with related research groups.

Lead a project investigating how cell size affects cancer cell biology using mammalian cell lines. Build on recent findings coupling transcription and cell size, applying quantitative and interdisciplinary approaches. Conduct experiments, analyze data, and contribute to publications and the lab's research programme.

Monitor interventional clinical study sites per GCP/ICH: perform selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits; manage recruitment, regulatory submissions, TMF/ISF documentation, CRF/data query resolution, site training, and escalate quality issues while liaising with study teams.

Manage the Financial Lives survey and bespoke market research projects, overseeing timelines, budgets, suppliers, resources, governance, stakeholder engagement, and reporting. Support survey analysis queries, procurement framework renewal, communications planning, team administration, recruitment coordination, risk tracking, and process improvement. The role requires quantitative and qualitative research knowledge, survey design and analysis experience, strong Excel skills, budget management, and excellent organizational and communication abilities.

Manage bespoke quantitative and qualitative market research projects for a financial regulator, including research design, statements of requirements, supplier evaluation, sampling, screening, weighting, analysis, and publication-quality reporting. Deliver assigned sections of the Financial Lives survey, ensuring robust data collection, timely delivery, budget control, and alignment with internal client needs. Collaborate with research agencies, internal stakeholders, and team leads to support regulatory decisions and consumer insights.

Conducts research on AI-enabled turbulence computation by designing, training, and releasing large neural network models for embedding and predicting high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows. The role applies graph neural networks, transformers, and dynamical systems theory, collaborating with academic researchers, industrial partners, and a major technology company. The position is full-time, fixed-term for 36 months, and includes opportunities for industrial collaboration and career development.

Research and analyze European gas and LNG markets, including fundamentals, pricing, infrastructure, trade flows, policy, regulation, and geopolitics. Develop commercially relevant market insights and outlooks, engage with clients, support presentations and events, and collaborate across energy research teams. The role focuses particularly on Northwest European markets, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, while contributing to coaching and team development.

Conduct research on AI risk, algorithmic assurance, and insurance. Develop mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to evaluate, price, monitor, and mitigate AI-related risks. Build reproducible code, simulations, benchmarks, and evaluation tools; publish findings; present at conferences and industry workshops; collaborate with academic and industry partners; and support workshops, reports, grant development, and stakeholder engagement.

As a Research Engineer Intern, you'll develop state-of-the-art LLM and multimodality models, optimize distributed training frameworks, and collaborate on the application of large models in business scenarios.

Support global steel alloys research by analysing molybdenum markets and modelling chromium extractive/refining assets. Produce publications, maintain Excel models, gather industry intelligence, engage clients, and support sales and consultancy activities.

Conduct climate and air pollution research using street-scale air-quality modelling, statistical analysis, emissions scenarios, and regional climate projections. Analyse environmental exposures, heat and co-occurring climate extremes, and their health impacts. Co-develop indoor heat-health warning systems and indicators measuring the health co-benefits of net-zero interventions. Collaborate across climate, built-environment, and health-science disciplines and contribute to publications.

Conduct mathematical and computational research on elastic and elasto-inertial turbulence in viscoelastic fluids. Develop and apply statistical and machine-learning methods to compare experiments with simulations, optimize simulation parameters, estimate polymer stresses, and investigate flow states across two- and three-dimensional regimes. Collaborate with researchers at the University of Edinburgh, University of Pennsylvania, University of Cambridge, and University of Vermont, with opportunities for international research travel.

Conduct research in engineering biology and medical mycology by developing a pan-fungal molecular bioimaging toolbox, including fluorescently labeled fungal pathogen strains. Lead computational and bioinformatic strain-engineering work, design and analyze experiments, and collaborate with experimental and computational scientists to investigate fungal biology, infection contexts, and antifungal resistance. The role also offers opportunities to develop an independent research project and contribute to grant applications.

Conduct experimental research on how changing light conditions affect Antarctic diatom population growth and silica uptake. Investigate the biogeochemical consequences for silica cycling in the Southern Ocean, contribute to the Polar Dawn project, support the wider research team, guide PhD students, and develop national and international collaborations and publications.

Build large-scale data pipelines and infrastructure for frontier AI model training. Develop data-processing models such as classifiers, quality filters, and labeling systems; design deduplication, quality scoring, labeling, and augmentation strategies; and create reliable tooling for researchers to explore and train on massive datasets. The role also evaluates how data quality and composition affect model outcomes, with web crawler experience as a bonus.

Build and operate large-scale distributed web crawlers that discover, fetch, extract, deduplicate, and recrawl billions of pages. Develop targeted pipelines for audio, video, and multilingual data, transforming web content into training-ready datasets. Create infrastructure and tooling for researchers to request, monitor, evaluate, and explore crawled data, while ensuring reliability, efficiency, compliance, politeness, and rate-limit handling.

Deploy and optimize frontier AI models for real-time production use at scale. Responsibilities include improving inference latency, throughput, and cost through quantization, distillation, KV-cache optimization, batching, and custom kernels; building high-performance streaming serving systems; and creating tooling that enables safe, efficient model deployment.

The Clinical Research Associate monitors oncology and hematology clinical trials at assigned sites, ensuring compliance with ICH-GCP, regulations, SOPs, quality standards, and study timelines. Responsibilities include site feasibility and selection, start-up support, investigator training, monitoring visits, regulatory and recruitment tracking, data query resolution, inspection readiness, issue escalation, and CAPA development. The CRA collaborates with clinical operations teams and sites to deliver study milestones and maintain data integrity.

Leads clinical research and evidence development projects globally, overseeing project planning, delivery, budgets, risks, quality, regulatory compliance, reporting, vendors, and client relationships. Directs Project Managers and cross-functional teams, manages departmental resources and process improvements, supports business development, and supervises project management staff. Ensures adherence to ICH-GCP, FDA and EMA requirements, EU Clinical Trials Directives, GDPR, HIPAA, timelines, financial targets, and contracted quality standards.

Part-time research associate to collect and code secondary qualitative data, support and train carer co-researchers, contribute to writing and dissemination, and perform project administration for a study on carer harm in serious mental illness.

Lead research-driven branded content for sponsor-funded campaigns: design and run quantitative surveys, analyze data, write and edit multi-format sponsored assets, manage freelancers, coordinate with sales and sponsors, use AI tools responsibly to speed workflows, and script/moderate live and virtual partner events.

Lead patient recruitment, data capture, and follow-up for multi-centre international cardiovascular clinical studies. Coordinate site activities, work with investigators and project team, use NHS records, perform ECG interpretation, and ensure study delivery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and partner sites.

Provide supervisory compliance and relationship management for Financial Professionals, ensuring activities follow firm policies and regulations. Conduct office visits, review securities activity, correspondence, and regulatory documentation; serve as escalation contact; use data and reporting tools to identify needs and improve processes; partner cross-functionally on strategic initiatives. Requires travel ~8-10 weeks/year and applicable FINRA licenses.