Top Research Jobs in Edinburgh

Provide clinical support for pregnancy-related research studies, working with the Edinburgh Pregnancy Research Team, NHS Lothian and biobank. Recruit and consent participants, deliver participant care from antenatal to postnatal stages per protocols and GCP, manage study workloads, maintain communication across teams, and ensure regulatory and safety compliance.

Support a multidisciplinary team to translate social science research on gender, self-harm and suicide into policy and practice. Organise public engagement events, produce accessible outputs (briefings, podcasts, infographics), write reports, and help monitor and evaluate project impact. Communicate findings to policy-makers, practitioners, and lived-experience audiences.

Support a feasibility study examining cardiovascular risk factors in autistic adults using wrist-worn accelerometers, sleep diaries and focus groups. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, wearable and diary data collection, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and preparing outputs for publication under PI supervision.

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.

Coordinate Secretariat communications and engagement for the National Research Organisations Group. Draft and maintain content, support member and stakeholder liaison, organise meetings and events, manage shared trackers, inboxes and document libraries, and provide administrative support to working groups to increase NRO visibility.

Support Dr Kevin Guyan and the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab to deliver impact and knowledge-exchange activities for the Box Breakers project. Part-time, fixed-term research support including project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and administrative tasks to improve organisational data practices for minoritised communities. Flexible/hybrid working considered.

Post-doctoral researchers will design and implement novel AI model architectures and scalable training algorithms beyond standard transformers, train and benchmark large models on multi-GPU and distributed infrastructure (including IsambardAI), analyze model behaviour for reasoning, efficiency and interpretability, develop robust research code, and disseminate results via publications and presentations.

Develop and apply open-source multi-energy system models and agent-based approaches to study interactions between electricity, heat, and hydrogen markets. Contribute to model development, scenario design, data analysis, publications, and stakeholder engagement with academic, policy and industry partners.

Conduct and publish original computer science research (with emphasis on AI and/or cyber security), secure research funding, supervise PhD students, teach and develop inclusive curricula, contribute to departmental administration, knowledge transfer, enterprise and public engagement, and support an inclusive academic community.

Academic role combining research, teaching and administration in computer science. Duties include leading research (publishing, funding, supervision), designing curricula, delivering high-quality teaching, contributing to management and outreach, and mentoring colleagues and students.

The Senior Research Scientist will innovate and optimize models for real-time learning, collaborating across domains to enhance efficiency and impact, with a strong focus on practical applications and measurable outcomes.

Lead marketing initiatives at Whetstone Research, create digital content, manage contributors, and prioritize strategies in blockchain and crypto.

Drive independent, high-impact research on frontier AI topics, publish findings, collaborate widely, and mentor new researchers in the field.

Manage and grow corporate subscription accounts for research-intensive clients by selling complex, AI-enabled knowledge solutions. Build account strategies, identify cross-sell/upsell opportunities, negotiate contracts, forecast pipeline in CRM, deliver high-stakes presentations, collaborate with Product/Marketing/Customer Success, and conduct market and customer research to inform sales approaches.

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.

Postdoctoral researcher in mathematical general relativity to work with Dr Jan Sbierski on singularities, pursue independent research, collaborate with group members, and optionally undertake a small amount of teaching. Requires a PhD and strong background in general relativity, PDEs, or Lorentzian geometry; position is fixed-term (20 months) with travel and laptop funds.

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 long-horizon R&D to define future decision intelligence: explore reasoning architectures, prototype and formalize system primitives, evaluate new signal classes, and translate research into reusable components aligned to strategic product direction.

Build and maintain experimental decision-system prototypes, evaluation tooling, simulation environments, and research infrastructure to enable rapid iteration and validation of research concepts in real-world constraints.

Apply formal decision theory and structured reasoning to enterprise problems: design decision frameworks, model uncertainty and tradeoffs, test decision architectures, run experiments, and translate research into system-ready primitives collaborating with engineering and product teams.

Lead go-to-market strategy and commercial execution for a new AI-native Market Research service. Build positioning, pricing, and metrics; generate pipeline and close deals; partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Research; represent Maze publicly; and help scale the service and team while feeding market insights back into product and offering design.

Lead product discovery and delivery for an AI platform serving life-sciences R&D. Partner with design, engineering, and data science to define requirements, prioritize features, and measure outcomes. Engage researchers and R&D users to ground decisions in workflows, and help scale enterprise AI/data products from concept through launch.

Provide specialist support for externally funded research: prepare budgets, review and submit applications, accept and set up awards, ensure compliance with funder and legal requirements, and advise researchers and local offices across a portfolio of schools. Work collaboratively across teams, support time-sensitive initiatives, and deliver high-quality, customer-focused research administration.

Nebius seeks a Senior ML Engineer for AI R&D focusing on applied research in reinforcement learning and agent training, requiring deep expertise in machine learning and software engineering.