Top Research Jobs in Edinburgh

Own operational delivery for complex research customer projects, including participant acquisition, onboarding, verification, activation, quality monitoring, and supply development. Build project plans, workflows, playbooks, and scalable processes while optimizing participant funnels and operational metrics. Partner with product, data, science, and customer success teams to improve time-to-data, fill rates, participant quality, and customer outcomes across Prolific’s Research platform.

Conduct industry, market, competitor, and target-account research across enterprise technology and industrial sectors. Analyze procurement processes, customer priorities, comparable products, and emerging opportunities. Summarize findings in reports and presentations while supporting consulting and product initiatives. Collaborate with leadership on commercial strategy and organize complex information into clear insights.

Conducts qualitative and quantitative research on technology partner ecosystems, alliances, marketplaces, channels, and go-to-market strategies across EMEA. Responsibilities include survey design, data analysis, executive interviews, market research, written thought leadership, consulting support, client presentations, webinars, and trend analysis involving AI and cloud ecosystems.

Conduct patient preference and health outcomes research for pharmaceutical and medical device clients. Responsibilities include literature reviews, study protocol development, choice experiment design, patient interviews, focus groups, qualitative coding, econometric analysis, scientific writing, project coordination, client meetings, and quality control.

Leads the FCA’s Agentic AI and Data Science Research function, setting AI strategy, governance, research ethics, data science standards, and long-term capability roadmaps. The role directs horizon scanning, responsible AI adoption, model assurance, and advanced analytics initiatives supporting regulation, financial crime reduction, and organisational effectiveness. It provides senior technical advice, leads multidisciplinary teams, develops talent, and influences executive, board, regulatory, and technology stakeholders.

Conduct genomic, molecular, and epigenetic research on germline-specific chromosomes in Bradysia coprophila. Investigate programmed DNA elimination and chromosome biology using genomic data analysis and laboratory techniques. Collaborate within an interdisciplinary international project and contribute to establishing Bradysia as a model system for unusual inheritance and chromosome behavior. Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills are required.

Conduct nuclear astrophysics research by developing and applying R-matrix evaluations of experimental nuclear reaction cross-section data. Provide global fits and astrophysical reaction-rate evaluations, collaborate with international researchers and overseas laboratories, present findings at meetings, and contribute to supervising graduate and undergraduate students.

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.

Conduct independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Design, train, and evaluate large multimodal and vision-language-action models for robotic agents. Develop reinforcement and imitation learning methods, embodied datasets, simulation environments, world models, planning systems, and sim-to-real experiments. Build robust research software and distributed training infrastructure, validate approaches on physical robots, and collaborate with research and engineering teams to deploy reliable systems. Communicate findings through technical reports, open-source releases, demonstrations, and publications.

Conduct clinical trial site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits. Ensure protocol compliance, data integrity, and patient safety; collaborate with investigators and site staff; review data and resolve queries; and contribute to study documentation, protocols, and clinical study reports. The role requires approximately 60% travel across Scotland and Northern UK.

Leads strategic internal and external communications for the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, covering media relations, social media, website, newsletters, publications, events and campaigns. Develops content, manages communications planning and brand compliance, evaluates audience engagement, builds relationships with media and stakeholders, supports senior spokespeople, and contributes to crisis communications. The role may include line management, committee representation, occasional travel, evening and weekend work, and reactive press support.

Designs, builds, and evaluates research prototypes and production-ready systems for portable AI agents, model routing, provider interoperability, memory, retrieval, tool use, and multi-agent workflows. Responsibilities include developing evaluation frameworks, conducting statistically rigorous experiments, creating schemas and APIs, optimizing model and agent systems, and translating research into secure, reliable, reusable components. The role collaborates across research, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams and communicates findings through technical reports, benchmarks, demonstrations, open-source releases, and publications.

Conducts clinical site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out activities for UK studies. Ensures ICH-GCP, regulatory, protocol, data integrity, informed consent, investigational product, and documentation compliance. Performs source data review, query resolution, site file reconciliation, recruitment support, audit readiness, and site communications. Manages site-level timelines and action plans, collaborates with sponsors and study teams, attends meetings and training, and may support real-world late-phase chart abstraction and junior staff training.

Research Fellows will validate AI-generated paper reproductions, simulations, and results; map research taxonomies; define standards for high-quality AI-assisted science; and create benchmark tasks and evaluations for frontier AI models. Fellows will contribute to a publicly released benchmark paper and open evaluation set as lead or first authors. The contract offers flexible, remote global work for current STEM PhD students or postdocs with published research and hands-on AI agent experience.

Lead the research and design organization across Airalo’s consumer and B2B products. Set design strategy, unify product experiences, own brand expression within the product, and establish scalable design systems, accessibility standards, quality processes, and career frameworks. Partner with Product and Marketing, use research to shape the roadmap, develop design leaders, and build the team needed to support the company’s growth.

Own the roadmap for OneAdvanced IQ’s native research and analytics capabilities, including replacing Pendo and Condens. Lead usage, consumption, memory, and personalisation features; define customer analytics; establish research standards; oversee tooling, instrumentation, governance, and analytics architecture; and coach product managers on research and analytics practices.

Conduct postdoctoral research on avian influenza modeling in cattle using multi-scale simulation models, machine learning, and demographic, environmental, and phylogenetic datasets. Collaborate with UK and US universities, coordinate research activities, contribute to disease-control strategies, disseminate findings, and participate in international visits and project meetings focused on infectious disease research.

Manage and deliver mixed-methods social research and evaluation projects across Scotland’s public policy landscape. Responsibilities include designing methodologies, conducting qualitative and quantitative research, analysing data, translating findings into actionable insights, writing reports, presenting results, managing clients and stakeholders, contributing to proposals and business development, and supporting team planning and researcher development. The role also involves using AI-enabled tools and digital technologies to improve research quality and efficiency.

Lead qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research and evaluation projects for public sector clients across Scotland and the UK. Manage project design, budgets, timelines, risks, teams, client relationships, reporting, and dissemination. Contribute to proposals and business development, provide subject matter expertise, and coach junior researchers. Translate complex evidence into clear policy and service recommendations while using AI-enabled tools to improve research, analysis, reporting, and productivity.

Conduct and publish original research in artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, robotics, digital twins, and related engineering disciplines. Develop and deliver undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development teaching. Supervise PhD students, contribute to curriculum development, pursue research grants, engage with industry and policy partners, and support university management, enterprise, knowledge transfer, and inclusion initiatives.

Research newly launched technology products, create and maintain accurate Magento product listings, update specifications and pricing, audit catalog data, validate information using AI-powered tools, and monitor competitors. The role requires strong attention to detail, product research and analytical skills, familiarity with e-commerce platforms, Microsoft Office proficiency, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Assistant Professor in Birmingham Law School responsible for teaching, assessment, curriculum development, student and PhD supervision, research publication, research project management, academic mentoring, and school administration. The role focuses particularly on private law subjects including contract, tort, trusts, company, commercial, banking, and international law. The postholder will contribute to knowledge transfer, public engagement, employability, equality and diversity initiatives, and the wider academic community.

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.

Open expression-of-interest opportunity for professionals with demonstrated impact in areas such as engineering, policy, cybersecurity, auditing, standards, or program management. Applicants should describe an achievement that influenced corporate practices, public policy, widely used software, or their broader field, and explain their interest in working with AVERI. Formal credentials are less important than verifiable impact.