Senior Research Engineer in AI

Durlston Partners
London, GB
On-site

Job Description

Senior AI Research Engineer (LLMs / AI Systems) | London | £200K–£300K

We’re hiring a Senior AI Research Engineer to work on large-scale AI systems deployed in production.

The role sits between research and engineering , focusing on improving the models and systems behind AI agents. Work includes instruction following, long-context reasoning, retrieval, and multi-step task execution.

What You’ll Do

Improve core capabilities such as instruction following, retrieval, contextual memory, and long-horizon tasks

Build and iterate on model training, evaluation, and orchestration pipelines

Develop end-to-end systems that run reliably at scale

Take research ideas from prototype to deployed systems

Work closely with engineers to ship models into production

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years in AI/ML engineering or applied research
  • Experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying LLMs in production
  • Strong Python and familiarity with modern ML tooling (PyTorch, data pipelines, evaluation frameworks)
  • Track record of turning research work into production systems

Compensation & Benefits

  • £200K - £300K base
  • Health coverage
  • Flexible vacation
  • Daily meals and office perks

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Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

AI

Level

mid

Posted

4/6/2026

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