# ML/AI Research Engineer

ML/AI Research Engineer - CoSTAR National Lab Grade 7 or 8 (£39,560.18 - £57,666.28), dependent on experience Full-time, fixed-term until March 2029 (flexible and remote working options available) Abertay is a modern university with a global outlook, rooted in its local and national communities. We have made our mark with high quality, well-directed teaching and research, and a stimulating and enriching experience for our students. CoSTAR National Lab for R&D in Creative Technology is the largest ever investment in creative industries R&D in UK history: a £51.1m programme led by Royal Holloway, University of London, to give the UK’s screen and performance industries the R&D infrastructure to compete globally. See more here. The National R&D Lab places Equality, Diversity and Sustainability at the heart of all we do: from our team culture, to the research programmes we run, to how we collaborate with partners. This is a unique opportunity to shape how the creative industries adopt and innovate with AI, from world models and generative AI to large language models and real-time multimodal tools. You will work with world-leading creative companies - from Pinewood to BT to Disguise to t

- **Id**: 3818939
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/abertay-mlai-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T16:59:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T06:18:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
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- **Description chars**: 5657
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- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 1766363
- **Name**: Abertay
- **Domain**: abertay.ac.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/abertay>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iTrent

## Salary

- **Min**: 39560
- **Max**: 57666
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 77687

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Diffusion Models** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T16:59:08Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 77687
- **Is top pay**: no

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