# Research Associate

Grade UE07: £41,885 to £49,798 per annum School of Informatics / College of Science and Engineering Full-Time 35 hours per week 24 months fixed term contract The Opportunity: We are seeking a motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance research in Embodied AI and Spatial AI at School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh. The position is part of a new research programme led by Dr Liang Zhao, developing AI systems that can perceive, understand, reason about, and act within three-dimensional environments. The successful candidate will have a PhD (or be close to completing one) in artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, or a closely related field. They will undertake original research connecting spatial perception and understanding with embodied decision-making and action, developing methods that enable intelligent agents to learn from and interact with the physical world. We welcome candidates whose research interests align with one or more of the following topics: Spatial intelligence, 3D scene understanding, and spatial reasoning. Embodied perception, mapping, and navigation. Multimodal foundation models and vision-language-action models

- **Id**: 3653054
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fintech-scotland-research-associate-3>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T07:50:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6216
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Flexible schedule, Home office, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Tech Industry Associations & Clusters, Finance Associations & Professional Bodies

## Company

- **Id**: 1891986
- **Name**: FinTech Scotland
- **Domain**: fintechscotland.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fintechscotland>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Salary

- **Min**: 41885
- **Max**: 49798
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 66805

## Technologies

- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T00:49:08Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.812
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:12, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 66805
- **Is top pay**: no

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