Top Research Jobs in Bristol

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.

Conduct basic science research on neurodegeneration and multiple sclerosis, focusing on mitochondrial function and mitochondrial DNA at the single-cell level in animal brain tissue. Collaborate with researchers at University College London and the Dementia Research Institute, contribute to laboratory research, and work with a balance of supervised tasks and independent initiative.

Conduct frontier applied research on efficient AI model architectures, including sparse attention, long-context memory, selective computation, dynamic inference, reasoning, and continual adaptation. Formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments at meaningful scales, develop efficient implementations, publish findings, contribute to open-source tools and models, mentor researchers, and help direct the research stream.

Leads the College of Medicine and Health research support team, overseeing pre-award support, research development, proposal drafting, budgeting, compliance, due diligence, grant setup, and contract negotiation. The role manages approximately 25 professionals, develops research-support processes, monitors performance, leads strategic partnerships, supports complex agreements, and promotes staff development, equality, and continuous service improvement across the University.

Leads process excellence, operational performance, capability development, organizational change, KPI governance, and continuous improvement across clinical research operations. The role standardizes SO&E methods, strengthens onboarding and competency frameworks, coaches delivery teams, interprets performance analytics, integrates quality and compliance controls, and manages operational readiness and performance for project support teams. Requires extensive process excellence or organizational change experience in a clinical research or CRO environment.

Supports multidisciplinary research on decarbonisation strategies in cancer care. Responsibilities include developing and conducting a scoping review, designing search strategies, screening and analysing evidence, extracting data, piloting qualitative interviews, supporting research prioritisation, disseminating findings, drafting publications, assisting project management, and contributing to grant applications and team development.

Develops, validates, and supports R Shiny applications and reusable programming utilities for clinical trial review, data visualization, statistical reporting, quality control, and regulatory submissions. Uses R, SAS, and Python while collaborating with biostatisticians, statistical programmers, data management, clinical operations, and IT. Ensures solutions meet GxP, Computer Software Assurance, testing, scalability, performance, and company standards.

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.

Supports clinical data science and management activities for clinical trials, including database development, eCRF and edit-check planning, user acceptance testing, external data coordination, risk assessment, documentation, study metrics, budget oversight, and compliance with SOPs. The role also coordinates data team activities, manages timelines, and communicates with internal teams and external vendors.

Conducts clinical trial site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out activities in compliance with protocols, ICH-GCP, regulations, and SOPs. Reviews source documents, clinical data, informed consent, investigational product handling, and essential trial files. Supports recruitment, query resolution, audit readiness, site training, and study timelines. Serves as a liaison with investigators, sponsors, and project teams, with regular UK travel and potential chart abstraction responsibilities for real-world studies.

Own operational delivery for complex research customer projects, including participant acquisition, onboarding, verification, activation, quality monitoring, and supply development. Build project plans, workflows, playbooks, and scalable processes while optimizing participant funnels and operational metrics. Partner with product, data, science, and customer success teams to improve time-to-data, fill rates, participant quality, and customer outcomes across Prolific’s Research platform.

Conduct industry, market, competitor, and target-account research across enterprise technology and industrial sectors. Analyze procurement processes, customer priorities, comparable products, and emerging opportunities. Summarize findings in reports and presentations while supporting consulting and product initiatives. Collaborate with leadership on commercial strategy and organize complex information into clear insights.

Conducts qualitative and quantitative research on technology partner ecosystems, alliances, marketplaces, channels, and go-to-market strategies across EMEA. Responsibilities include survey design, data analysis, executive interviews, market research, written thought leadership, consulting support, client presentations, webinars, and trend analysis involving AI and cloud ecosystems.

Conduct patient preference and health outcomes research for pharmaceutical and medical device clients. Responsibilities include literature reviews, study protocol development, choice experiment design, patient interviews, focus groups, qualitative coding, econometric analysis, scientific writing, project coordination, client meetings, and quality control.

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.

Design, train, and evaluate large multimodal and vision-language-action models for robotic agents. Develop reinforcement and imitation learning methods, embodied datasets, simulation environments, world models, planning systems, and sim-to-real experiments. Build robust research software and distributed training infrastructure, validate approaches on physical robots, and collaborate with research and engineering teams to deploy reliable systems. Communicate findings through technical reports, open-source releases, demonstrations, and publications.

Leads strategic internal and external communications for the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, covering media relations, social media, website, newsletters, publications, events and campaigns. Develops content, manages communications planning and brand compliance, evaluates audience engagement, builds relationships with media and stakeholders, supports senior spokespeople, and contributes to crisis communications. The role may include line management, committee representation, occasional travel, evening and weekend work, and reactive press support.

Designs, builds, and evaluates research prototypes and production-ready systems for portable AI agents, model routing, provider interoperability, memory, retrieval, tool use, and multi-agent workflows. Responsibilities include developing evaluation frameworks, conducting statistically rigorous experiments, creating schemas and APIs, optimizing model and agent systems, and translating research into secure, reliable, reusable components. The role collaborates across research, infrastructure, security, product, and engineering teams and communicates findings through technical reports, benchmarks, demonstrations, open-source releases, and publications.

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.

Conducts clinical site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out activities for UK studies. Ensures ICH-GCP, regulatory, protocol, data integrity, informed consent, investigational product, and documentation compliance. Performs source data review, query resolution, site file reconciliation, recruitment support, audit readiness, and site communications. Manages site-level timelines and action plans, collaborates with sponsors and study teams, attends meetings and training, and may support real-world late-phase chart abstraction and junior staff training.

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.

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.

Own the roadmap for OneAdvanced IQ’s native research and analytics capabilities, including replacing Pendo and Condens. Lead usage, consumption, memory, and personalisation features; define customer analytics; establish research standards; oversee tooling, instrumentation, governance, and analytics architecture; and coach product managers on research and analytics practices.

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.

Conduct and publish original research in artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, robotics, digital twins, and related engineering disciplines. Develop and deliver undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development teaching. Supervise PhD students, contribute to curriculum development, pursue research grants, engage with industry and policy partners, and support university management, enterprise, knowledge transfer, and inclusion initiatives.