Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in Oxford

Oxford's hiring leans heavily into research (university spinouts, Oxford Sciences Innovation, Vaccitech) and publishing (Oxford University Press, Elsevier). Tech roles cluster around the Science Park and the Big Data Institute.

ML engineering hiring in the UK and EU has shifted heavily toward LLM applications since 2023 — RAG, agents, evals, fine-tuning. Foundation-model labs (Mistral AI, Cohere, Stability) and applied teams (Snyk, Wise) compete for the same talent. Pay top-of-market for senior roles is £140k+.