Top Machine Learning Jobs in Edinburgh

Design and deliver enterprise-grade machine learning systems and AI-powered applications for banking. Build scalable, secure, distributed applications and automated cloud, desktop, and ML pipelines. Apply MLOps practices for versioning, reproducibility, and observability while collaborating with cloud and site reliability engineering teams. Develop reusable libraries and business-critical, data-intensive solutions, aligning machine learning problems with business objectives. The role may include mentoring or people leadership.

Leads technical direction for GitLab’s Core DevOps services, covering CI, CD, planning, and source control. Defines architecture, quality metrics, migration strategies, and technical roadmaps; addresses systemic risk and complex design decisions; prototypes and writes code when needed; partners with Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Product; adopts AI capabilities; mentors senior engineers; supports incident response and senior technical hiring.

Supports enterprise sales by discovering customer requirements, mapping them to SailPoint solutions, and delivering foundational implementations and proof-of-value engagements. Acts as a technical lead and consultative advisor, educating customers on architecture and best practices. Collaborates with sales, product, professional services, partners, and customer success teams while developing AI-driven and agentic solutions for demonstrations and customer outcomes.

Lead and mentor a data science team developing machine learning systems for threat detection and agentic AI. Set ML technical strategy, standards, roadmaps, and deployment practices; guide projects from research through production; collaborate with security, engineering, and product teams; develop advanced malware and behavioral threat models; communicate insights; and contribute to research, publications, patents, and hands-on technical work.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of a major global product area comprising multiple modules. Design scalable distributed cloud systems, shape technical vision and roadmaps, guide engineering teams, make high-stakes architectural decisions, and partner with technical and executive stakeholders. The role is primarily hands-off, with occasional code-level design and proof-of-concept work. Responsibilities also include mentoring engineers, driving modern engineering practices, and enabling AI-powered solutions.

Deliver enterprise and operational risk transformation and advisory services for financial institutions. Assess and enhance risk processes, controls, governance, market abuse frameworks, and trade surveillance capabilities. Support AI-enabled analysis, surveillance model tuning, workflow automation, validation, auditability, and responsible AI practices. Collaborate with business, technology, compliance, and risk stakeholders to identify control gaps and implement data-driven improvements.

Lead GitLab’s company-wide strategy for autonomous, agentic software development workflows. Identify and validate AI opportunities across the SDLC, build prototypes and reference architectures, establish evaluation frameworks and safety controls, and drive internal adoption. Partner across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and Data and ML teams to scale reliable, observable, compliant agentic capabilities into customer-facing products. Mentor senior technical leaders and represent GitLab externally on AI-assisted development and productivity measurement.

Participate in a 12-month data science graduate programme, developing models and AI solutions across their full lifecycle. Apply statistical analysis, machine learning, data visualization, and cloud technologies to complex business problems. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and cross-functional teams to generate actionable insights while developing expertise in responsible AI, data privacy, and customer-focused innovation.

Supports the design, development, and deployment of applied AI systems under senior engineer guidance. Contributes to AI feature development, follows engineering standards, participates in code reviews and technical discussions, and builds expertise across modern AI and cloud technologies. The role emphasizes learning, collaboration, and progression toward more senior engineering responsibilities.

Provides advanced technical support for Azure customers, resolving complex escalations, conducting root-cause analysis, optimizing cloud environments, and guiding solution deployments. Partners with engineering, product, support, and field teams to improve customer health, service reliability, troubleshooting content, and platform capabilities. Acts as the customer advocate within Azure by translating usage patterns and feedback into actionable product improvements and communicating resolutions to customers.

Manage regional field marketing across Middle Eastern markets from the UK. Plan and execute sponsorships, conferences, executive events, roundtables, customer experiences, account-based marketing activations, and country launches. Responsibilities include venue sourcing, vendor management, logistics, branding, invitations, attendee management, on-site delivery, post-event follow-up, and collaboration with Sales, Growth, and country leadership to support strategic accounts and pipeline growth.

Designs mobile, desktop, and wall-display applications for healthcare and care staff. The role involves simplifying health data, creating workflows for different user levels, collaborating with AI and engineering teams, conducting customer site visits, prototyping in code, and designing around sensor and model limitations. Candidates should have 4+ years of software product design experience, strong information architecture skills, and ideally React or front-end development experience.

Leads statistical activities for Phase II–III oncology trials from protocol design through results reporting. Provides clinical development, endpoint analysis, SAP, regulatory, safety, and submission support; oversees programming and CRO work; conducts analyses using SAS and R; collaborates with cross-functional teams, sponsors, and health authorities; and mentors junior statisticians across multiple concurrent studies.

Leads Tide’s global KYX engineering organization across onboarding, continuous due diligence, identity, risk scoring, data science, and ML. Owns engineering strategy, organization design, model lifecycle, regulated AI deployment, and measurable improvements in conversion, due diligence quality, automation, and servicing costs. Partners with operations, policy, risk, compliance, product, and IAM teams across multiple markets while building globally reusable platforms with market-specific logic isolated.

Provide expert technical advice on age assurance and digital identity technologies within online safety regulation. Lead research and evaluations, assess technical feasibility and risks, translate complex concepts for policy and leadership audiences, prepare briefings and demonstrations, monitor emerging trends, and engage with academia, industry, public bodies, and external technical groups.

Conduct world-leading interdisciplinary research within the Decisions Cluster of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, examining how AI and algorithmic technologies transform decision-making. Develop research and funding plans, collaborate across disciplines, contribute to knowledge exchange and the research environment, support postgraduate research students, and undertake academic administration and citizenship activities.

Leads biomedical data science for clinical and health research, integrating clinical, observational, EHR, genetic, wearable, electrophysiological, and video data. Develops signal-processing methods, machine-learning models, probabilistic and time-series analyses, scalable data pipelines, and reproducible workflows. Validates clinically relevant models, supports disease phenotyping and predictive modeling, ensures compliance with pharmaceutical and healthcare standards, and communicates technical findings to clients and stakeholders.

Manage relationships with AI-native startups, scaleups, and labs across the UK. Understand customer goals, develop AI solution strategies, drive adoption and growth, coordinate technical and business resources, build customer references and case studies, identify emerging use cases, and represent NVIDIA at industry events. The role requires deep AI ecosystem knowledge, strategic planning, cross-functional communication, and understanding of NVIDIA’s software, server, and cloud stack.

Design, develop, and maintain the core backend of a cloud-based distributed video management system. Build new features, increase capacity, manage CI/CD and customer deployments, and ensure code quality, security, and scalability while collaborating within an agile team.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and governance of scalable Data and AI solutions using Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure. Defines AI technology roadmaps, mentors engineering teams, identifies high-value business use cases, prototypes and scales AI products, and ensures secure, ethical, enterprise-integrated implementations.

Leads complex customer audits, due diligence, and RFI/RFP engagements; oversees compliance response quality, customer communications, governance, process improvement, tooling, and team development. Partners with Sales, Legal, Information Security, and executives to address high-risk inquiries, maintain response documentation, improve workflows, and ensure accurate, customer-ready outputs.

The Director of FP&A will own budgeting, rolling forecasts, integrated financial modeling, cash flow and headcount planning, SaaS KPI reporting, variance analysis, board reporting, and PE sponsor reporting. The role will improve planning infrastructure across NetSuite, Salesforce, Pigment, and Bob, apply AI to finance workflows, and lead and develop the FP&A team across a multi-entity, multi-currency SaaS business.

Build scalable, low-latency backend APIs, event-driven services, integration layers, and microservices supporting personalization and recommendation experiences. Partner with AI/ML and data engineers to deploy models, expose AI services, and develop React applications. Improve security, observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while using AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery and code quality.

Leads strategic R&D engagements from presales through delivery, translating scientific and business challenges into AI architectures, product backlogs, MVPs, simulations, integrations, data pipelines, and production solutions. Builds trusted relationships with R&D executives, scientists, engineers, and technical teams; assesses data, compute, feasibility, value, staffing, and delivery plans. Develops reusable architectures and playbooks, oversees technical workstreams, evaluates emerging AI capabilities, and provides feedback to shape Microsoft Discovery products and scalable industry solutions.

Manage the full sales cycle across EMEA, including prospecting, pipeline generation, client meetings, contract negotiation, and closing. Build strategic partnerships with mobile gaming and other app-focused clients, exceed revenue quotas, and collaborate with Customer Success, Marketing, and Product. Represent the company at industry events, track mobile advertising trends, and use AI technologies to improve prospecting and sales performance.