Top Research Jobs in Bristol

Manages and monitors investigator sites throughout clinical trials, ensuring patient safety, GCP and regulatory compliance, enrollment progress, data quality, investigational product oversight, issue resolution, documentation, and timely site close-out. Collaborates with investigators, study teams, vendors, drug safety units, and site personnel while supporting audits, CAPA activities, database release, and protocol training.

Manages investigator sites for clinical trials from activation through closeout. Conducts onsite and remote monitoring, ensures patient safety and GCP/regulatory compliance, resolves protocol and data issues, oversees investigational product handling, supports recruitment and database release, and coordinates with investigators, vendors, study teams, drug safety, and regulatory stakeholders. The role also supports audits, CAPA remediation, protocol training, and may mentor clinical research associates.

Manages investigator sites for clinical trials from activation through closeout, ensuring patient safety, protocol compliance, quality, regulatory adherence, recruitment progress, data resolution, investigational product oversight, and timely study documentation. Partners with study teams, site personnel, vendors, and safety groups to resolve issues, support audits and inspections, implement corrective actions, and deliver successful global trial execution.

Design and run ML experiments, implement and optimize algorithms for hardware efficiency, collaborate with researchers and engineers, and publish and present results at AI conferences.

Lead a multidisciplinary team to invent and develop high-performance turbomachinery and motor aero designs, drive aero-acoustic performance, DFM/DFA, supplier negotiations, project planning, validation, and technology roadmaps to meet cost, size, weight and efficiency targets.

Manage quantitative and qualitative market research projects from inception through delivery. Responsibilities include defining research objectives, developing briefs, commissioning and overseeing research suppliers, analyzing datasets and findings, identifying trends, producing charts and reports, and presenting evidence-based insights to support regulatory policy. The role also requires maintaining cross-functional relationships, monitoring research best practices, and exploring innovative methodologies including AI applications.

Provides executive leadership for Research England’s research funding and policy portfolio, including approximately £2 billion in annual institutional funding. Leads research excellence assessment, evidence and data strategy, governance, risk management, and system-wide policy development. Advises ministers, executives, governing boards, and the Executive Chair while representing Research England across UKRI and external forums. Leads high-performing teams and drives inclusive, collaborative leadership across the UK and international research systems.

Participate in a two-year graduate development program focused on designing and integrating complex aircraft wing structures. Responsibilities include structural problem-solving, component interface design, 3D structural design, critical design reviews, design-for-manufacturing activities, space allocation models, design principles, and detailed part drawings. The role includes rotational placement, collaboration, technical development, and preparation for a future Structures Research and Technology Engineer position.

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.

Conduct research on language evolution and sociolinguistic variation in British Sign Language. Recruit participants across the UK, liaise with deaf community organisations, collect and manage video-based linguistic data, and code recordings according to research protocols. Maintain participant and project records, follow ethical and data protection requirements, contribute to literature reviews, publications, presentations, meetings, and administrative tasks, and work independently and collaboratively to meet project objectives.

Conducts site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out visits for clinical studies. Ensures ICH-GCP, regulatory, protocol, informed consent, data integrity, investigational product, and site documentation compliance. Performs source document review, query resolution, and audit readiness activities; supports recruitment, retention, and investigator relationships. Manages site-level timelines and communications, may mentor junior CRAs, and supports real-world late-phase activities including chart abstraction, data collection, and country-level informed consent development.

Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School responsible for teaching, assessment, curriculum development, student supervision, research publication, grant development, PhD mentoring, knowledge transfer, and School administration. The role also involves academic citizenship, leadership, equality and diversity initiatives, public engagement, and supporting an inclusive learning environment. New appointees participate in a five-year academic development programme with expected progression to Associate Professor.

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.

Conduct independent AI research focused on evaluation methodologies, alignment techniques, and synthetic data generation. Design rigorous experiments and scalable frameworks for evaluating LLMs and agent systems using human data. Build research infrastructure and practical tools, applying fine-tuning, optimization, quantization, adapters, and distillation. Publish research, contribute to open source, collaborate with engineering and product teams, mentor colleagues, and communicate complex AI concepts clearly.

Reviews manuscripts for research integrity and publishing ethics concerns, investigates potential issues, distinguishes valid concerns from false positives, and recommends appropriate actions. Manages ethics cases, communicates findings to editors and authors, mentors colleagues, identifies emerging risks, and leads process improvements that strengthen research integrity screening and publishing operations.

Reviews manuscripts for research integrity and publishing ethics concerns, investigates potential issues, distinguishes valid concerns from false positives, and manages ethics cases. Communicates findings to editorial stakeholders, mentors colleagues, identifies emerging risks, and leads process, workflow, policy, and detection improvements across scholarly publishing operations.

Conduct research into volcanic debris avalanches and granular heating. Analyze geological samples and field datasets, perform grain-size and mechanical characterization, interpret photogrammetric and geological data, run high-pressure shear-cell experiments, develop discrete-element simulations, and contribute to depth-averaged debris-avalanche models. The role includes publishing research, presenting at conferences, co-supervising students, and collaborating internationally.

Test an international payment service by receiving a small transfer into a local Faroe Islands bank account, verifying the amount, date, and reference, and submitting screenshots or video evidence. The task takes about one hour, with the transfer potentially taking two business days. Applicants must be based in the Faroe Islands, have a local-currency bank account, provide banking details, sign a consent form, and create a Testlio account.

Conduct interdisciplinary neuroscience research using iPSC-derived microglia, neurons, and 3D organoids to investigate sex differences in brain development and early-life infection. The role involves applying stem cell culture, molecular biology, and microscopy techniques, organizing research activities, communicating findings, critically evaluating results, and working independently and collaboratively within the Sullivan/Chandran labs.

Conducts applied research on the fairness, privacy, and adversarial robustness of AI and machine learning tools used in recruitment. Responsibilities include implementing and documenting experiments, developing reproducible research software and evaluation pipelines, managing sensitive and synthetic datasets, and contributing to analyses and publications in security, privacy, and machine learning.

Assistant Professor responsible for conducting and publishing robotics and artificial intelligence research, securing research funding, supervising PhD students, and developing industry and policy partnerships. The role also involves designing and delivering undergraduate, postgraduate, CPD, and practical robotics laboratory teaching; assessing students; contributing to programme development; supporting inclusive education; and participating in departmental administration, enterprise, knowledge transfer, outreach, and EDI initiatives.

Build large-scale data pipelines and infrastructure for frontier AI model training. Develop data-processing models such as classifiers, quality filters, and labeling systems; design deduplication, quality scoring, labeling, and augmentation strategies; and create reliable tooling for researchers to explore and train on massive datasets. The role also evaluates how data quality and composition affect model outcomes, with web crawler experience as a bonus.

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.

Serve as the primary post-sale value partner for a portfolio of customers, driving adoption and repeat usage of UserTesting. Advise on research best practices and methodology selection, translate research into practical guidance, support account planning and renewals, identify adoption risks, connect customers to internal teams, and maintain engagement documentation using tools like Planhat, Gong, and Salesforce.