18 science jobs found in London

AI Engineer - LLM & Agentic Systems London - Hybrid. Circa £500 – £675 per day (and negotiable DOE) Contract (Outside IR35) Mid-level, Senior & Lead. Agentic AI / Machine Learning. Company: Our client is a globally established B2B information and professional services business, operating across multiple high-value industry sectors. They have established data science and machine learning engineering teams already delivering in production, and are now expanding their AI capability significantly across the global organisation. This is a role for people who ship. If you've built LLM-powered systems and agentic workflows that are live in production - not demos, not prototypes - and you want to do that at genuine scale, this is worth applying for. What you'll be working on as an AI Engineer - LLM & Agentic Systems: Designing and building AI agents and agentic workflows - combining LLMs, RAG, reasoning, memory and tool orchestration to...

SC Cleared Data Scientist London (2 Days Per Week On Site) Contract: £500-£750 per day (Outside IR35) OR Permanent: Up to £120,000 Base Salary We are currently seeking an experienced SC Cleared Data Scientist to join a high-profile programme delivering critical analytical and data-driven capabilities within the defence sector. This role requires candidates who have previously worked with the MOD (Ministry of Defence) and are comfortable operating within secure environments. Key Requirements Active SC Clearance Proven experience as a Data Scientist in defence or government environments Previous experience working directly with the MOD Strong background in: Machine Learning Predictive Analytics Python/R SQL and large-scale data processing Data visualisation and stakeholder reporting Experience handling sensitive or classified data Desirable Experience Knowledge of AI/ML deployment in secure environments Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or...

Job Opportunity: Senior C# Quantitative Risk Developer | Capital Markets Technology Location: London Type: Full-time/Contract Rate: UPTO £750 p/d (Outside IR35) Client: Leading Global Investment Bank Hybrid: 1 day per week in the office Are you ready to be at the forefront of technology and finance? Our client, a top-tier investment bank, is looking for a Senior C# Quantitative Risk Developer to join their high-impact Capital Markets Technology team in London. This is a unique opportunity to bridge the worlds of quantitative analysis and software engineering-delivering cutting-edge solutions to drive pricing, risk management, and liquidity strategies in Real Time trading environments. About the Role As a Senior Quantitative Developer, you'll collaborate closely with quantitative analysts, traders, and fellow technologists to develop and optimize core components of the bank's pricing, risk and valuations infrastructure. You'll be responsible for translating complex...

DATA SCIENTIST (PRICING) £480 - £530 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35 HYBRID (1-2 DAYS PER MONTH IN THE OFFICE - LONDON) 7 MONTH CONTRACT THE COMPANY: Join a global media business with a key focus on improving commercial visibility, pricing strategy, and revenue management processes. THE ROLE: As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with commercial stakeholders across a specific European market to help shape and deliver revenue management and pricing analytics solutions. Each market is at a different stage of maturity, meaning this role will combine structured delivery work with more exploratory and discovery-led problem solving. You will be responsible for translating commercial questions into analytical requirements, building dashboards and reporting solutions, and supporting wider pricing and revenue optimisation initiatives. As a Data Scientist, your key responsibilities will include: Building analytical solutions to support pricing and revenue management...

Lead Data Scientist England £450-£480 Outside IR35 Remote The Company They are a specialist organisation working at the forefront of AI-driven customer engagement. Their focus is on enabling highly personalised, Real Time decisions across digital channels using advanced analytics and machine learning. The business combines deep domain expertise with strong delivery capability, supporting enterprise clients across multiple sectors. The Role and Deliverables You will take ownership of end-to-end data science delivery, from problem definition through to deployment in live environments. Design, build, and deploy machine learning models within Pega-based decisioning platforms. Lead model development across feature engineering, training, validation, and ongoing performance monitoring. Work closely with application and logic developers to embed models into operational decision workflows. Develop statistical and machine learning models for personalisation, propensity scoring,...

DATA SCIENTIST (PRICING) £480 - £530 PER DAY OUTSIDE IR35 HYBRID (1-2 DAYS PER MONTH IN THE OFFICE - LONDON) 7 MONTH CONTRACT THE COMPANY: Join a global media business with a key focus on improving commercial visibility, pricing strategy, and revenue management processes. THE ROLE: As a Data Scientist, you will work closely with commercial stakeholders across a specific European market to help shape and deliver revenue management and pricing analytics solutions. Each market is at a different stage of maturity, meaning this role will combine structured delivery work with more exploratory and discovery-led problem solving. You will be responsible for translating commercial questions into analytical requirements, building dashboards and reporting solutions, and supporting wider pricing and revenue optimisation initiatives. As a Data Scientist, your key responsibilities will include: Building analytical solutions...

Lead Data Engineer (Contract) Location: London (2 days onsite per week) Day Rate : £550 Per day (Outside IR35) Duration: min. 6-month contract Start: ASAP Contact : Matthew.Makranczy@forsythbarnes.com Overview We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join a high-performing team delivering advanced data platforms that support financial institutions in tackling fraud and financial crime. In this role, you will help design and evolve a modern Databricks + lakehouse architecture , enabling analytics, machine learning, and investigative teams to generate actionable insights from large-scale datasets. This is a hands-on leadership position focused on building robust, scalable, and governed data solutions using modern cloud technologies. The Role Own the end-to-end design, build, optimisation, and support of scalable Spark / PySpark data pipelines (batch and streaming) Define and implement lakehouse architecture standards (medallion model:...

🚀 We’re hiring: Product Owner-Lending & Credit Underwriting 📍 London | 6-Month Contract | Outside IR35 | Up to £650/day | 2 Days per Week Onsite We’re launching a digital bank focused on savings and lending, combining modern banking infrastructure, AI-driven experiences, and the intuitive product design. We’re looking for a Product Owner to lead our Lending & Credit Underwriting squad owning the loan origination and credit decisioning experience end-to-end. This is a rare opportunity to help build a new bank from the ground up inside an established global fintech. What you’ll be doing: • Owning lending products across origination, underwriting and decisioning • Leading a cross-functional squad of engineers and data scientists • Shaping underwriting rules, decisioning logic and customer journeys • Partnering closely with Credit Risk, Compliance, Design and Engineering • Driving roadmap, delivery and product strategy in a fast-moving environment • Using...

AI Leader The Role We are supporting an exciting consultancy who are on the lookout for an AI specialist to help shape and deliver next-generation AI capabilities within a large-scale enterprise environment. This is a unique opportunity for a technically strong and research-driven person to lead the design, deployment, and optimisation of production-grade GenAI systems. The successful candidate will work across cutting-edge AI initiatives including LLM development, RAG architectures, AI safety, model monitoring, and responsible AI frameworks. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership, offering significant influence over enterprise AI direction and innovation. Key Responsibilities Design and deploy scalable Generative AI and LLM-based solutions Develop RAG architectures and advanced prompt engineering frameworks Lead Responsible AI initiatives including bias detection and governance frameworks Collaborate with senior stakeholders to...

🚀 Job Opportunity: Senior C# Quantitative Risk Developer | Capital Markets Technology Location: London Type: Full-time / Contract Rate: £800 p/d (Outside IR35) Client: Leading Global Investment Bank Hybrid: 1 day per week in the office Are you ready to be at the forefront of technology and finance? Our client, a top-tier investment bank, is looking for a Senior C# Quantitative Risk Developer to join their high-impact Capital Markets Technology team in London. This is a unique opportunity to bridge the worlds of quantitative analysis and software engineering—delivering cutting-edge solutions to drive pricing, risk management, and liquidity strategies in real-time trading environments. 🔍 About the Role As a Senior Quantitative Developer, you’ll collaborate closely with quantitative analysts, traders, and fellow technologists to develop and optimize core components of the bank’s pricing, risk and valuations infrastructure. You'll be responsible for...

MLOps Platform Manager, Palantir Fully Remote | 6 Month Contract | Outside IR35 | £550 to £650 per day Overview A leading organisation is looking for an MLOps Platform Manager to take ownership of its Palantir and production ML platform environment, covering Foundry, AIP and wider MLOps services . The role will focus on ensuring the platform is reliable, secure, well-governed and scalable, while helping data science and engineering teams move models and data products into production in a structured and repeatable way. The Role This is a delivery-focused platform ownership role, sitting across: Palantir platform operations MLOps enablement Service management Security, governance and compliance Supplier and vendor management You will be responsible for the day-to-day running and improvement of Palantir Foundry, AIP and related MLOps capabilities . The role requires someone who can combine technical platform...

ML Engineer Contractor - AI-Driven Automation Our client, a global digital E-commerce company is looking for an experienced ML Engineer contractor to help build a fully automated pricing platform across various international locations. This is an AI-first role. They are looking for someone who thinks beyond traditional ML pipelines and brings strong experience in intelligent automation, AI agents, orchestration, and production-grade decision systems. You'll work closely with the Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics teams to design and deliver automated workflows that move model recommendations into production systems safely, reliably, and at scale. What You'll Do Design and build automated ML pipelines and orchestration workflows Implement AI agent and LLM-powered automation capabilities Deliver pricing outputs into AWS S3 for downstream system integration Support phased rollout from manual approvals to full automation Partner with senior stakeholders, Ccntribute...

Senior Python Engineer (Microservices/Event-Driven) - Contract £550/day | Outside IR35 4 Months | Watford (HYBRID) We're hiring a Senior Python Engineer with proven time-series experience to work on a Real Time data platform. This is a Back End engineering role focused on event-driven systems and time-series data. It is not a data science or analytics position. What You'll Be Doing Building API-driven Back End services in Python Developing event-driven microservices using Azure Service Bus Working on high-throughput ingestion and processing systems Deploying services via Azure Functions or Docker on AKS Core Requirements (Non-Negotiable) Strong Python Back End engineering experience Demonstrable experience: Designing data models for time-based querying Optimising queries and handling large datasets Working within event-driven architectures Tech Environment Python Azure (Functions, AKS, Storage) Azure Service Bus ADX/Kusto or InfluxDB...

Senior Scientific Data Scientist / Pipeline Engineer Remote / Hybrid Oxford 6 Month Contract Outside IR35 £400 to £550 per day Overview A technology-enabled drug discovery company is looking for a Senior Scientific Data Scientist to design, build and maintain the analytical pipelines that power its data-driven discovery platform. The business combines automated wet-lab experimentation, proprietary analytical pipelines and deep scientific expertise to generate high-quality, reproducible biological datasets at scale. This data supports AI-driven discovery work across areas including oncology, immunology and neurodegeneration. This role would suit a scientist-turned-coder or scientific data scientist with strong Python skills, statistical modelling experience and a background working with bioassay or experimental biology data. The Role You will build and improve Python-based analytical pipelines for diverse bioassay datasets, including biochemical,...

Senior Scientific Data Scientist / Pipeline Engineer Remote / Hybrid Oxford 6 Month Contract Outside IR35 £400 to £550 per day Overview A technology-enabled drug discovery company is looking for a Senior Scientific Data Scientist to design, build and maintain the analytical pipelines that power its data-driven discovery platform. The business combines automated wet-lab experimentation, proprietary analytical pipelines and deep scientific expertise to generate high-quality, reproducible biological datasets at scale. This data supports AI-driven discovery work across areas including oncology, immunology and neurodegeneration. This role would suit a scientist-turned-coder or scientific data scientist with strong Python skills, statistical modelling experience and a background working with bioassay or experimental biology data. The Role You will build and improve Python-based analytical pipelines for diverse bioassay datasets,...

Contract Senior Software Engineer Location: Cambridge – onsite 3 days per week Rate: £62-£66 per hour (Outside IR35) Initial 6-month contract Start: ASAP Zenovo is partnering with a successful and growing Biomedical technology company in Cambridgeshire to recruit an experienced Contract Software Engineer. This is a technically diverse role offering the opportunity to work across the full software stack, including UI development, embedded systems, and integration with microprocessors and hardware platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to assess technical feasibility, define delivery timelines, and develop innovative new product functionality. Key Responsibilities Contribute across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) and engineering change processes Support product design, development, and continuous improvement activities Develop new applications, including UI functionality, database management, and machine...

Role: Contract Senior Software Engineer Cambridge – onsite 3 days per week £60-£65 per hour (Outside IR35) Duration: 6 months+ Start Date: ASAP The Opportunity Zenovo are supporting a growing and highly successful medical technology company based in Cambridgeshire in their search for an experienced Contract Software Engineer. This is a varied and technically challenging role, where you will contribute across the full software stack, including user applications/UI, embedded systems, and integration with microprocessors and hardware platforms. The role will involve closely working with hardware interfaces, alongside assessing technical feasibility, constraints, and delivery timelines for new functionality and product capabilities. Key Responsibilities Work within the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and engineering change request processes Contribute to product design and development activities Lead development of new applications, including UI, database...

Senior Project Manager – Defence & Advanced Engineering - Bedfordshire - 6 Month Contract (Outside IR35) Role: Senior Project Manager Industry: Defence Contract: 6 Months (Outside IR35) Rate: £DOE *Required SC Clearance Overview We are supporting an innovative and rapidly growing engineering business operating at the forefront of advanced propulsion, aerospace, autonomous systems and next-generation flight technologies. The company is delivering cutting-edge engineering solutions across highly complex technical environments, spanning research & development, product development, systems integration, testing and operational deployment. Due to continued growth and new programme wins, they are now looking to appoint an experienced Senior Project Manager to support the successful delivery of high-profile engineering and defence-related projects. This role would suit someone with strong experience delivering complex hardware, software or...