Senior Scientist, Sovereign Language Modelling (Flexible)

UAG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 96,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Family friendly policies

Job summary

UAG is seeking a Partner Scientist, Sovereign Language Modelling to provide scientific and strategic leadership for a high-priority research area. You will shape an ambitious portfolio spanning data pipelines, pre-training, RL and deployment, while building partnerships across academia, government and industry.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team of researchers and research engineers, translating research into real-world resilience and responsible, open AI practices.

Qualifications

• Internationally recognised leader in NLP and/or ML with hands-on expertise across model training, reinforcement learning and post-training, distillation and model compression.
• Proven track record in leading research software and infrastructure at scale, securing external funding and communicating complex technical work to diverse audiences.
• Strong ability to translate research into real-world impact and to lead collaborations with academia, government and industry.

Responsibilities

• Set the scientific direction for Sovereign Language Modelling, defining and developing an ambitious research agenda aligned with Fundamental Research priorities.
• Build and lead a high-quality research portfolio, taking programmes from foundational research questions through to demonstrators and deployment.
• Build, lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams of researchers and research engineers, developing technical capability as priorities and partnerships evolve.
• Provide hands‑on scientific leadership, working alongside technical teams and partners to tackle challenging methodological problems, maintain scientific quality and model excellent research practice.
• Translate research into real-world resilience impact, applying Sovereign Language Modelling research to operational problems, data and constraints, including secure, classified or sensitive environments where required.
• Develop strategic partnerships and secure resources, building collaborations across academia, government and industry and helping secure the funding, data, compute, facilities and partner commitments needed to deliver the portfolio.
• Represent the Institute as a senior scientific authority for Sovereign Language Modelling, communicating evidence clearly to partners, boards and research audiences and monitoring emerging developments in the field

Skills

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Model training

Reinforcement learning

Post-training

Distillation

Model compression

Agentic systems

Efficient inference

Distributed training

Job description

UAG is seeking a Partner Scientist, Sovereign Language Modelling to provide scientific and strategic leadership for a high-priority research area. You will shape an ambitious portfolio spanning data pipelines, pre-training, RL and deployment, while building partnerships across academia, government and industry.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team of researchers and research engineers, translating research into real-world resilience and responsible, open AI practices.