Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Oxfida

18 month FTC - Research Project (privacy-preserving generative AI ecosystem)

£80-110k

Senior and Expert level

Oxford

Remote from UK

Developing advanced AI capabilities to tackle risk across increasingly complex systems

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Developing advanced AI capabilities to tackle risk across increasingly complex systems

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceInsuranceMachine Learning

Be an early applicant

£80-110k

Senior and Expert level

Oxford

Remote from UK

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceInsuranceMachine Learning

Company mission

To harness AI to understand, predict, and manage risk, helping build a safer, more resilient society.

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Company

Role

Who you are

A Master's or PhD in Computer Science, ML, Statistics, Maths, or equivalent experience, plus 5+ years in applied ML/AI research or development
A genuine track record in privacy-preserving ML, generative AI, LLMs, or federated learning, since this isn't a "learn on the job" role
Strong Python engineering skills: ML frameworks, version control, CI/CD, reproducible experiments
Comfort working across the full ML lifecycle, from first prototype to something that can actually be deployed
Experience mentoring others and the communication skills to explain complex trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

What the job involves

You'd be joining CODAS, our flagship sovereign AI programme, built in partnership with Japanese public and private sector organisations and academic collaborators at Oxford and UCLA. The goal is a privacy-preserving generative AI ecosystem that protects personal and sensitive data by design, through data residency, anonymisation, secure deployment, and privacy techniques that hold up at both training and inference time
As a Senior Machine Learning Scientist, you'll take technical ownership of research workstreams within CODAS. Rather than just executing a brief, you'll set the experimental direction yourself and push approaches like differential privacy, federated learning, and secure inference beyond what's already out there
Own the technical direction of assigned CODAS research tracks, from framing the problem to validating the results
Design and build ML approaches for privacy-preserving generative AI, including differential privacy, federated learning, secure inference, and related techniques
Turn research into proof-of-concept systems and deployable components that feed directly into programme deliverables
Publish, contributing to papers, technical reports, and conference talks that put the Lab's work in front of the wider AI community
Mentor other ML scientists and research associates working alongside you on the programme
Work directly with partner organisations to understand real technical constraints, not just theoretical ones

Application process

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Our take

Founded in partnership with Japanese-founded insurance company Aioi Nissay Dowa, Oxfida is an R&D company researching the applications of AI within the insurance and risk analysis industry.

Oxfida collaborates with professors, researchers, graduates, and Oxford University spinout companies to help build a safer and more resilient society. It does this through pioneering research into emerging risks that affect the insurance and risk analysis market, such as the supply chain, nature, and self-driving vehicles. It focusses on technologies such as agentic AI, complex system modelling and quantum technologies and their potential uses within this space.

The applications of Oxfida's research are manifold. Its partnership with one of the world’s leading insurance companies provides unparalleled scope and scale for the small team’s research. With this kind of support, and AI’s high suitability as a predictive model in risk and insurance, it’ll be exciting to see what grows out of this well-backed R&D venture.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Company benefits

Annual Leave - minimum 25 days + bank holidays
Private Medical Insurance
Pension Scheme
Health Cash Plan

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Leadership

Junichi Ikegami

(Co-CEO)

Mike Krefta

(Chair and Co-CEO)

Davide Zilli

(CTO)

People progressing

Bernardo Perez Orozco

From PhD intern to Director of AI Delivery — Bernardo grew his career and our team.

Harriet Bensted

Harriet joined Mind Foundry as a Project Manager in 2020. She's now Head of Project Management at the Aioi R&D Lab, continuing to grow her team here!

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