Senior AI/ML Research Leader - Hybrid, SC

RTX; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + public holidays

Contributory Pension Scheme

Company bonus scheme

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible Benefits scheme

Volunteer days

Job summary

Raytheon UK’s Strategic Research Group seeks a senior AI/ML specialist to lead design and technical direction of multiple projects, shaping strategy and delivering data‑driven solutions with autonomy.

The role requires a PhD or Masters, experience deploying AI models at scale (defence/government preferred), strong cloud and Linux skills, and on‑site/hybrid work across Gloucester, London or Manchester. Clearance (eDV) is advantageous.

Qualifications

• PhD. or Masters highlighting academic research.
• Experience deploying AI models in a scalable way for external users.
• Experience developing supporting systems for AI deployments (e.g. backend databases, front end UIs).
• Working knowledge of Linux systems, using basic commandline functionality (e.g. AWS CLI, Docker CLI, Linux commands).
• Experience with Cloud, especially AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Research publications in peer reviewed journals.
• Experience delivering AI/ML projects in defence or government.
• Existing network of contacts across defence and government.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Data Science & Machine Learning using your experience to contribute to the group strategy and stakeholder engagement.
• Bring ideas for novel research that will drive competitive advantage across our customer community.
• Work with autonomy to develop complex, novel data science solutions.
• Support in triaging and responding to opportunities, aligning to the group and wider business strategies.
• Design and deliver data-centric solutions while working collaboratively across disciplines.
• Technical delivery of research and applied AI/ML tasks on both customer and internal research projects.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects.
• Manage more junior team members across the SRG.
• Deliver AI/ML/Data Science solutions to broad range of problems in defence.
• Work with customers and internal stakeholders to determine appropriate technical approaches and do the technical development required for delivery.
• Excellent communication skills, prepared to present and undertake practical demonstrations of work internally in the team, to senior stakeholders and at conferences with adaptability to audiences of different levels of technical expertise.

Skills

Data Science

Machine Learning

AI

Autonomy

Communication

Education

PhD or Masters degree

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Linux

Docker

Job description

Raytheon UK’s Strategic Research Group seeks a senior AI/ML specialist to lead design and technical direction of multiple projects, shaping strategy and delivering data‑driven solutions with autonomy.

The role requires a PhD or Masters, experience deploying AI models at scale (defence/government preferred), strong cloud and Linux skills, and on‑site/hybrid work across Gloucester, London or Manchester. Clearance (eDV) is advantageous.