Senior AI/ML Engineer - Bristol or Bath (hybrid)
3 days ago
Bristol
Senior AI/ML Engineer - Bristol or Bath (hybrid) Method Resourcing has partnered with a UK-based organisation that is establishing a new AI-focused research centre across Bristol and Bath. The mission is to build advanced AI/ML capability and real-world impact, supporting nationally significant programmes across industry, government. This is not a product engineering role. It is a research-first, impact-driven AI position, sitting at the intersection of applied research, commercialisation, and national capability building. The Opportunity Working alongside the AI/ML Lead, you will play a senior role in shaping and delivering new research and innovation programmes focused on advanced AI techniques with a clear path toward deployment and commercial relevance. Initial focus areas include: • Agentic AI systems, • Energy systems flexibility, • Creative industries applications, • Emerging work across generative AI, reinforcement learning, neuro-symbolic AI, verifiable AI, and MCP-style architectures, • Lead and contribute to original AI/ML research at the forefront of the field, • Design and advance work in agentic AI, generative models, RL, neuro-symbolic and verifiable AI, • Build proofs-of-concept and demonstrators using modern AI/ML tooling and architectures, • Help develop commercial IP from research outputs, • Collaborate with universities, research labs, and industry partners to turn theory into practice, • Contribute to and shape R&D funding proposals, • Influence the wider AI research strategy, helping teams understand where the technology is heading, • Publish, present, and represent the organisation at conferences and technical forums, • Mentor junior engineers and researchers, supporting capability growth and hiring Essential • Strong track record of independent AI/ML research, • Deep understanding of current AI techniques and emerging directions, • Experience delivering or contributing to funded R&D programmes, • Ability to manage multiple research initiatives in parallel, • Confident communicator who can translate between academic research and industrial application, • Industry experience alongside research background, • Experience turning R&D into commercial IP, • Exposure to energy, creative industries, or telecoms, • You will help build a new AI research centre from the ground up in the Bristol/Bath ecosystem, • Long-term research agenda, not short-term delivery pressure, • Direct involvement in shaping UK AI capability and national programmes, • Genuine freedom to explore advanced AI approaches while keeping a line of sight to impact RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.