Join us at EIT:
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas for lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Requirements
Your Role:
We are looking to recruit a Research Scientist with expertise in large-scale machine learning. In this role you will design, train, and evaluate advanced machine learning models to support scientific and technological progress across multiple fields .
Your Responsibilities:
- Contribute to research projects from initial concept through to deployment in collaboration with applied and operations teams.
- Develop and train large-scale models, including those integrating multiple data types and complex datasets.
- Work with teams of scientists, clinicians, and engineers to ensure research objectives meet practical application requirements.
- Communicate research results through internal presentations and external publications, as applicable.
- Maintain high standards of code quality, reproducibility, and team collaboration practices.
Qualifications:
- PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline (eg. Physics, mathematics, and computational biology).
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale machine learning systems, such as, aspects of model training, finetuning, data management, and distributed computing.
- A record of impactful research as demonstrated by at least one publication in AI/ML conferences, patents, or scientific journals.
- Excellent communication skills and the willingness to work with diverse cross-functional teams while solving ambitious and complex problems in an efficient manner.
Team Leadership & People Management
(Relevant for roles with people leadership responsibilities)
- Lead with empathy, curiosity, and clarity, modelling the behaviours that help others do their best work.
- Set clear goals, ways of working, and measures of success that create alignment while protecting autonomy and creativity.
- Invest in people’s growth and wellbeing through regular feedback, coaching, and opportunities to stretch and learn.
- Create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are welcomed, debate is constructive, and people feel safe to challenge ideas.
- Make fair, thoughtful decisions around work allocation, recognition, hiring, and performance, using consistent and bias-aware approaches aligned with EIT's values and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments.
Benefits
We offer the following salary and benefits:
Enhanced holiday pay
Pension
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Private Medical Insurance
Hospital Cash Plan
Therapy Services
Perk Box
Electric Car Scheme
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Working Together – What It Involves:
· You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
· You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford.
*NB: the above are both optional based on the role being recruited for
