Senior Research Scientist Knowledge & Semantics
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£60,000 - £70,000 GBP
Onsite WORKING
Location: England, Chelmsford, East of England - United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Research Scientist - Knowledge & Semantics
AI Research | NLP, Knowledge Graphs, Graph ML, LLMs | National Security & Defence | Hybrid UK
Fantastic opportunity for a curious and motivated researcher to join a leading-edge AI team delivering applied research across national security, defence, and public sector innovation programmes.
Youll be part of a highly collaborative R&D environment, working alongside specialists in natural language processing (NLP), graph machine learning, and large language models (LLMs). This is an ideal role for someone with a strong academic background whos keen to develop impactful, real-world AI solutions.
Whats on offer: Competitive salary + flexible benefits package
Hybrid working model with a UK base
Work on meaningful, mission-led research
Access to academic, SME and industry partners
Ongoing support for personal development and skill-building
What youll bring: PhD in a relevant field (or equivalent experience in applied research)
Experience working in areas such as: NLP (e.g. text mining, entity linking, transformer models)
Graph ML (e.g. predictive models, knowledge graphs)
Knowledge representation, ontologies, or semantic reasoning
Strong Python programming skills
Familiarity with at least one ML framework (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
Clear communicator, able to present work to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have: Familiarity with tools like PyTorch-Geometric, PyKeen, or Neo4j
Experience with SQL, Cypher, or other query languages
Exposure to applying AI in public sector or defence domains
An interest in collaborating on papers, prototypes or funded R&D proposals
Youll join a friendly, intellectually curious team where collaboration is key and learning is continuous. Whether youre coming from academia or already in industry, this is a chance to apply your research in exciting, real-world contexts.
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