Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Generative AI Research Scientist London Or Edinburgh ££Very Competitive££ We’re partnering with an established financial services organisation to recruit a Generative AI Research Scientist, helping identify where emerging AI techniques can make a meaningful difference to customers and the business. You’ll shape research questions, explore new approaches and test what works. This is a practical research role with responsibility for turning ideas into validated propositions and helping engineers bring successful outcomes into production. What you’ll be doing • Exploring model families, retrieval, agentic patterns and multimodal approaches • Designing experiments, benchmarks and test sets to evaluate accuracy, safety, bias and robustness • Guiding model customisation, including fine tuning strategies and data selection • Building prototypes and validating ideas with real users and data • Defining quality standards and advising on model risk and interpretability • Contributing to research, publications or intellectual property and collaborating with engineering teams What we’re looking for • Strong foundations in machine learning, statistics and experimental design • Practical experience with fine tuning, prompt engineering and rigorous model evaluation • Deep understanding of GenAI architectures and their trade offs • The ability to interpret results and defend conclusions with clear evidence • A record of taking GenAI concepts from an initial idea to a validated proposition • Understanding of model risk, data governance and financial services regulation • Clear communication with technical, business and risk stakeholders Why this role? You’ll help shape which GenAI approaches the organisation pursues and the standards they must meet. There is scope to contribute to the wider research community while working on problems with practical customer and business relevance. Interested? Send me your CV or a message for a confidential discussion. #AIResearch #GenerativeAI #ResearchScientist #MachineLearning #UKJobs