Top Research Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reviews contracts, budgets, payment schedules, and change orders; prepares invoices, revenue calculations, cash-flow analyses, and monthly project backlog reports. Supports project managers with profitability tracking and financial analysis for clinical research projects. Maintains financial system setup and tracking worksheets, attends project meetings, and responds to project-related questions. Requires accounting or finance experience within a CRO, revenue recognition system expertise, strong Excel skills, and excellent organizational and communication abilities.

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.

Curate and interpret drug discovery data from scientific papers, patents, and other disclosures. Responsibilities include interpreting chemical structures and biological data, building and maintaining databases, researching biopharmaceutical R&D, and surfacing accurate insights for scientific and industry audiences. The role requires strong data curation, patent literature, chemoinformatics, scientific communication, and attention to detail skills.

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.

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.

Join Verve as an Insight Associate, focusing on AI-powered market research. Learn to design research, interpret human behavior, and contribute to client projects using AI tools.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable R Shiny applications for clinical data review, visualization, QC, and reporting. Build reusable modules and utilities (R, SAS, Python), integrate cloud data sources, validate to regulatory/GxP standards, optimize performance, perform testing, and support study teams.

Provides pathology subject-matter expertise for biomarker discovery, companion diagnostics, digital and molecular pathology, and translational research programs. Reviews literature and pathology standards, develops annotation guidelines, performs or reviews digital slide annotations, and quality-checks human- and algorithm-generated outputs. Guides AI/ML model design, training, validation, and interpretation while collaborating with pathology, histotechnology, data science, and client teams to ensure clinically meaningful and scientifically rigorous results.

Seeking a Staff or Principal Research Scientist to develop cutting-edge AI models and systems, with a strong emphasis on experimental design and full-stack research ownership.

As a Research Intern, you will contribute to original research in deep learning, design novel neural network architectures, and collaborate on projects with researchers.

Lead statistician for complex clinical studies from protocol/SAP planning through reporting; develop sample size, modeling, adaptive/Bayesian designs; oversee statistical deliverables (SAPs, randomization, CSR contributions), advise on regulatory strategy, manage biostatistics projects and budgets, support BD and DSMB/DMC activities. Travel ~20%.

The AI Research Engineer will develop AI models to enhance product autonomy, analyze extensive data, and deliver impactful solutions, driving innovative product features.

Edit long- and short-form video content for YouTube and social platforms, adding motion graphics, captions, lower thirds, audio adjustments, color grading, and transitions. Organize assets and versions, collaborate with producers and designers, incorporate feedback, meet platform specifications, and deliver files in required formats and aspect ratios. The role also requires creative storytelling, quality assurance, deadline management, and submission of a video reel and editing sample.

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.

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.