15 Research Scientist jobs in London

**Job Requisition ID #**
25WD88949
**Principal Research Scientist - Industry Futures Team, Autodesk Research**
**Position Overview:** Autodesk is a global leader in software solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. We empower innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small with powerful technology. At Autodesk, we believe in the transformative power of design to create a better world.
The Industry Futures team within Autodesk Research is dedicated to exploring cutting-edge technologies and methodologies that will shape the future of design and manufacturing. We are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging advancements in AI to develop new design workflows, simulations, and digital twins. Join us in pioneering the next generation of design tools and methodologies.
**Responsibilities:** As a Principal Research Scientist in the Industry Futures team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of design through AI. Your responsibilities will include:
+ Applying your extensive experience in design and AI to create innovative design workflows.
+ Incorporating simulations and digital twins into design processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
+ Conducting thorough investigations to explore new methodologies and technologies.
+ Leading and mentoring junior researchers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
+ Collaborating with a diverse range of engineers and scientists across Autodesk.
+ Writing AI-related code in Python or equivalent programming languages to develop and test new concepts.
+ Presenting your findings to both internal stakeholders and external audiences, showcasing the impact of your research.
**Qualifications:**
+ Master's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, or other design and manufacturing-specific fields), Data Science, or related fields.
+ Strong foundation in engineering, complemented by specialisation in AI.
+ 8+ years of experience in the field of engineering.
+ Proficiency in Python or equivalent programming languages.
+ Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
+ Proven ability to conduct independent research and lead projects.
+ Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ PhD or EngD in a related field.
+ Experience in design, simulation and digital twins.
+ Publications in reputable journals or conferences on topics related to AI and design.
**The Ideal Candidate:** We are looking for an individual who combines robust experience in design, testing, and AI. The ideal candidate is a skilled engineer who has grown into the field of AI, leveraging their practical experience to drive advancements in design technology. They should be able to take their real-world engineering knowledge and use it as a foundation to innovate with AI, making significant contributions to the future of design and manufacturing.
Join Autodesk Research's Industry Futures team and be a part of a community that is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Your expertise and vision could help us shape the future of design.
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**About Autodesk**
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software - from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.
When you're an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
**Salary transparency**
Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
**Diversity & Belonging**
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?**
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).

**Summary:**
Meta is seeking Research Scientists specialized to join the Foundational Agent team of Superintelligence Labs organization. The team is responsible among other projects for Research and is composed of high talent density with the lead of Llama-2.We are currently seeking researchers with experience to join our Paris site and work with us on extending frontier agentic models through Reinforcement Learning. You will have the opportunity to work with a broad and highly interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and cross-functional partners, and will have access to cutting edge technology, important resources, and research facilities.
**Required Skills:**
Research Scientist (PhD) Responsibilities:
1. Conduct research that extends foundation models through model fine-tuning
2. Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones
3. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications
4. Contribute research that can be applied to Meta product development
5. Lead and collaborate on research projects within a globally based team
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
6. Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD in the field of Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar quantitative field
7. First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. *ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
8. Experience in training, fine-tuning, and/or experimenting with foundation models beyond black-box use
9. Familiarity with one or more deep learning frameworks (e.g. pytorch, tensorflow, .)
10. Communicate complex research for public audiences of peers
11. Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
12. High-impact publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. *ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), as witnessed by citations and other signs of influencing the research community
13. Experience in AI research beyond completing a PhD
14. Experience in developing and debugging beyond ML experimentation
15. Experience in working in an industry research environment
16. Experience in coordinating the research of PhD students or other researchers
17. Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and broad points of view to determine a path forward
18. Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment
**Industry:** Internet

**Summary:**
Meta is seeking Research Scientists, at all experience levels, to join our Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, an organization focused on making research breakthroughs in AI. Individuals in this role are expected to be world-leading experts in research areas such as ML theory, responsible AI, reinforcement learning, computer vision, audio, and/or NLP. To learn more about our research, visit Skills:**
Research Scientist - FAIR Responsibilities:
1. Perform research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines
2. Perform research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, codegen, and other modalities)
3. Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying immediate milestones
4. Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications
5. Open source high quality code and produce reproducible research
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
6. Currently has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in the field of Computer Science, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
7. Research background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational statistics, applied mathematics, or related areas
8. Research publications reflecting experience in theoretical or empirical research
9. Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar programming languages
10. Experience in analyzing and collecting data from various sources
11. Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
12. Experience collaborating in a team environment on research projects
13. Research and engineering experience demonstrated via grants, fellowships, patents, internships, work experience, and/or coding competitions.
14. First-authored publications at peer-reviewed conferences, such as ICML, NeuRIPS, ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, FacCT, CCS, IEEE S&P, and other similar venues
15. Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers.
16. Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and diverse points of view to determine a path forward.
**Industry:** Internet

**Summary:**
Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to join its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) organization, focused on making significant advances in Developmental AI (DevAI). Current machine learning algorithms can match human performance in a variety of tasks but require orders of magnitude more data. DevAI aims at building AI agents that learn autonomously from few amounts of real world data and interactions as children do. This covers the design of algorithms that leverage advanced machine learning techniques to improve robustness and sample efficiency, the building of datasets or simulators of ecological data, and benchmarks to compare how fast children and machines learn given similar input. The focus is on grounded language and communication. We publish groundbreaking papers and release frameworks/libraries that are widely used in the open-source community fostering the advancement of AI at its intersection with the study of natural intelligence. We seek researchers with a mixed expertise in machine learning (speech, language, vision, core ML) and cognitive science (developmental or language science) to join our research team to foster cutting-edge research in Developmental AI.
**Required Skills:**
Research Scientist - Meta Responsibilities:
1. Publish state-of-the-art research papers in both high impact machine learning and cognitive science outlets
2. Conduct independent research that investigates how AI can improve the science of learning in biological organisms and vice versa
3. Open source high quality code and reproducible results for the community
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
4. Ph.D. and established track record of leading and/or contributing to influential research, e.g. as evidenced by high-impact publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, ACL, Interspeech and ICASSP)
5. Documented interest in cross-disciplinary research in topics relevant to developmental AI
6. Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers, as well as non-technical audiences
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
7. 2+ years of work experience in a faculty, industry, or government research position with primary emphasis on AI research
8. Experience in developing and debugging in C/C++, Python, PyTorch
9. Publications in top cognitive (neuro)science journals or conferences (Cognition, Cognitive Science, etc) a plus.
10. Experience driving original scholarship in collaboration with a team
**Industry:** Internet

**Job Requisition ID #**
25WD85591
**Position Overview**
As an AI Research Scientist at Autodesk Research, you will be doing fundamental and applied research that will help our customers imagine, design, and make a better world.
We are a team of scientists, researchers, engineers, and designers working together on projects that range from learning-based design systems, computer vision, graphics, robotics, human-computer interaction, sustainability, simulation, manufacturing, architectural design and construction.
This role will report to a Manager of Research Science in the AI Lab.
**Responsibilities**
+ Develop new ML models and AI techniques
+ Lead on research projects within a global team
+ Review relevant AI/ML literature to identify emerging methods, technologies, and best practices
+ Explore new data sources and discover techniques for best leveraging data
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ A Master's or PhD in a field related to AI/ML such as: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Linguistics, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture or related disciplines
+ Strong background applying Deep Learning techniques (including implementing custom architectures, optimizing model performance, developing novel loss functions, and deploying production-ready solutions)
+ Familiarity in statistical methods for Machine Learning (e.g. Bayesian methods, HMMs, graphical models, dimension reduction, clustering, classification, regression techniques, etc.)
+ Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX or similar frameworks
+ Strong coding abilities in Python
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and/or Construction domains, including expertise with industry-specific data formats (e.g., BIM models, IFC files, AEC Contract Documents and Drawings such as Drawing Sets, Specifications, or Shop Drawings)
+ Knowledge of structured data representation and management in AEC workflows (building information modeling, structural specifications, project documentation)
+ LLMs and Natural Language Processing
+ Multi-modal deep learning and/or information retrieval
+ Publication track record in machine learning conferences and/or journals
+ Significant post-graduate research experience, or 5 or greater years of work experience (actual job title/position will be commensurate to experience)
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**About Autodesk**
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software - from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.
When you're an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
**Salary transparency**
Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
**Diversity & Belonging**
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?**
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).

Biopharmaceuticals are continuing to grow in popularity, with more compounds reaching clinical trials and regulatory approval. During biopharmaceutical research and development, an important step is the accurate determination of structure & function of these molecules. A key technique used in this process is LC-MS, along with a multitude of specialised mass spec assays like HDX.

In this role, you will be responsible for the characterisation of proteins to elucidate their structure, function, and degradation pathways. Utilising an impressive suite of LC-MS instrumentation inc Orbitraps and other high resolution instruments, you will design and conduct analyses along with reporting your findings.

Responsibilities will also include close liaison with other members of staff at sites located around the world and academic collaborators.

You must possess a strong analytical background, including experimental design, data/results analysis and report presentation. Experience and a thorough understanding of protein/peptide chemistry is essential, along with a familiarity of using LC-MS to characterise proteins.

The company offers an excellent working environment with state of the art facilities and genuine opportunities for progression - an excellent career move!

**Summary:**
The Reality Labs organisation at Meta is helping more people around the world come together and connect through world-class Augmented and Virtual reality (AR/VR) products. With global departments dedicated to research and development, AR/VR is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation. The potential to change the world is immense - and we're just getting started.We are looking for an experienced leader to manage and continue to build a world-class computer vision and generative AI team dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art of human-centric generative models, including multimodal talking heads, human video generation, AI-driven avatars, and the modelling of conversational and interactive mannerism. You will be responsible for recruiting, career growth, organisational health, guiding overall direction, and supporting multiple teams and projects working in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.
**Required Skills:**
Research Scientist Manager, Computer Vision & GenAI Responsibilities:
1. Build, lead, mentor, inspire, and enable a world-class CV and GenAI team
2. Work with leadership, researchers, and cross-functional teams to develop and pursue a vision for human-centric GenAI
3. Enable a team to research and develop advanced computer vision and GenAI technologies, including multimodal talking heads, human video generation, AI-driven avatars, and the modelling of conversational mannerism
4. Explore the problem and solution space through creating proofs of experience and getting feedback from user research
5. Establish a research/incubation/productisation roadmap and strategy
6. Collaborate and work across teams to develop concepts that advance the entire product pipeline (hardware, software, data collection, machine learning, etc.)
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
7. PhD in Computer Science or related field
8. Experience in computer vision, generative AI, computer graphics, or human-computer interaction research
9. Experience of building and managing high-performance teams in multi-disciplinary global organisations at the intersection of research and product
10. Technical knowledge in machine learning and optimisation
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
11. Research experience in facial analysis, affective computing, and face & body generation and animation.
12. Subject matter expertise demonstrated through publications, patents, and shipped products.
13. Experience leading a team that transferred technology from research in computer vision and GenAI into a shipping product.
14. Experience as lead investigator for which results were achieved or established
15. Experience managing joint hardware-software development and associated rapid prototyping
16. Experience leading an organization at various levels ranging from interns to principal research scientists.
**Industry:** Internet

**Summary:**
Meta Reality Labs brings together R&D team of researchers, developers, and engineers with the shared goal of developing AR and VR across the spectrum. The Core-AI group in Reality Labs is seeking research scientists to solve the next generation of research challenges on the path to building the 3D Metaverse. The aim of this role is to develop and advance state of the art research in 3D Generative AI technologies such as generating objects, materials, animation and worlds.
**Required Skills:**
Research Scientist, 3D Generative AI (PhD) Responsibilities:
1. Research and develop novel computer vision models in Generative AI, with a focus on 3D objects, textures and scene generation.
2. Publish research results in top-tier journals and at leading international conferences.
3. Collaborate with team members throughout the lifetime of a project, from early research through prototyping
4. Working with product partners to deploy research into Meta's products.
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
5. PhD in the field of computer vision, robotics, ML or equivalent
6. Background in generative-ai, 3D computer vision, video and image generation.
7. Experience designing machine learning algorithms, including experience creating software for data loading, training, and inference of novel ML architectures
8. Experience working in cross functional collaboration
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
9. Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences such as CVPR, ECCV/ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGGRAPH
10. Demonstrated software engineer experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub.)
11. Mathematical background and understanding of numerical optimization, linear algebra, probabilistic estimation and 3D geometry
**Industry:** Internet

**Job Requisition ID #**
24WD83836
**Position Overview**
The Simulation, Optimization and Systems (SOS) group within Autodesk Research is seeking an exceptionally talented and experienced Scientific Leader to join our team. We are focused on advancing the state-of-the-art design tools to allow architects, artists, designers, and engineers to " _Make Anything_ ". Our research centers around generative methods for design and spans physics-based modeling, simulation, optimization and systems modeling. You will lead and help build build a group focusing on the future of physics informed AI. Your group will work closely experts in geometric modeling, simulation, systems, robotics, high-performance computing, machine learning, sensing, computer vision, industrial manufacturing and construction.
The Physics Informed AI group will be specifically focused on researching and implementing novel algorithms for physics informed machine learning for use in design and engineering tools. We are interested in a scientific leader to help guide and direct research into physics-based generative models, surrogate models, data assimilation & digital twins, physics-based reasoning and the interpretation of physical results using AI.
**Responsibilities**
+ Identify, recruit and hire a team of scientists in Physics Informed AI with a focus on design
+ Work closely with a multi-disciplinary team of research scientists and engineers to conceive, plan, develop, and implement scientific research projects
+ Direct & perform research on machine learning models combining physics simulation and measurement data
+ Manage a team, perform bi-annual evaluations, plan development, coach, mentor and connect your personnel to academic communities and throughout the company
+ Publish papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals/conferences
+ Supervise researchers, engineers and interns (undergrad, Masters, PhD or Post-docs)
+ Document and communicate the intent and the results of projects in clear terms to both technical and non-technical team audiences
+ Present research findings at conferences and participate in research collaborations with external research institutes and universities
+ Communicate and promote the use of research findings throughout Autodesk
+ Consult with product teams on the implementation of research findings into products
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ Ph.D. or MSc. 12+ years experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or Applied Mathematics
+ Extensive experience with Physics Informed Machine learning models
+ Experience authoring physics-based solvers eg; fluids, thermal, structural, kinematic
+ Strong publication history in relevant conferences and journals
+ Proven track record as a practitioner of ML, creating, training and leading groups that can build and train models at scale
+ Excellent written and oral communication skills
+ Excellent knowledge of Numerical Methods
+ Ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to new situations
+ Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse, multicultural global team of scientists, engineers and architects
**Preferred Qualifications**
+ Knowledge of geometry and topology
+ Experience training large-scale, multi-modal models and ensembles
+ Familiar with collaborative development environments and version control systems
+ Experience with:
+ 2D and 3D computer graphics programming
+ Visualization techniques
+ Bayesian statistics
+ NVIDIA Warp and/or JAX, NVIDIA Modulus or similar
+ Pytorch, Pytorch Lightning, Weights & Biases, Ray, AWS Sagemaker
+ Experience training diverse architectures: CNNs, GNNs, Diffusion models, Contrastive learning, Transformers, LLMs, RNNs etc. at scale
+ Koopman, DMD, SINDy, Fourier Neural Operators, PINNs etc.
+ Computer Vision
+ Python, C++, Rust
+ OpenMP, Clang, SIMD, etc.
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**About Autodesk**
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software - from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.
When you're an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
**Salary transparency**
Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $199,900 and $323,400. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
**Equal Employment Opportunity**
At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
**Diversity & Belonging**
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?**
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).