Research Engineer jobs in Manchester

You will help shape how devices are assessed and qualified for use in space, drawing on existing data, modelling, and targeted testing where appropriate. - This role suits a physicist or engineer with research experience and strong technical writing skills, who wants to move into applied space work.

Lead User Researcher £85,000 to 100,000 GBP Bonus Remote WORKING Type: Permanent Lead User Researcher (Public Sector) Location: Remote-first, UK wide Salary: Up to £100,000 base + bonus (DOE) Eligibility: Must have the right to work in the UK (no sponsorship available) The Opportunity We're hiring a User Research leader to help shape and deliver some of the most complex and impactful public...

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and inspiring his or her team to achieve their performance metrics. Your role will involve strategizing, project management, part staff management. Your collaborative attitude and interpersonal skills will help you thrive as an Engineering Manager. Responsibilities - Manage, coach, and support engineering team - Create a technical strategy...

A leading UK university in Manchester is seeking a research associate to join the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. This role involves engineering microbial communities for sustainable bioproducts using cutting-edge CRISPR-based techniques. The candidate will collaborate with postdocs and students, contributing to significant research in the field. Attractive benefits include a...

You will have a deep expertise in video generation model architectures with a hands-on, research-driven approach. Your mission is to explore and implement novel techniques and algorithms that lead to groundbreaking advancements: data curation, strengthening baselines, identifying and resolving existing pre-training bottlenecks to push the limits of model performance.

A leading university in engineering in the UK is seeking a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Robotics Engineering to develop scholarly research and teaching. The successful candidate will establish a recognized research program and strengthen industry partnerships. Qualifications include a PhD in a relevant field and a strong track record in medical robotics and related areas. This position offers a...

You will identify and apply software engineering concepts to practical designs, offering development expertise, consultancy, and guidance.

Senior Python Engineer (£70k-£90k) - AI-Driven Product Build This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who wants to work on real-world AI systems, not proofs of concept or hype projects. You'll be joining a small, founder-led team building an AI-driven platform that automates complex, document-heavy workflows. The focus is on applying modern AI tooling in production environments...

Cost Engineer - Permanent, Full-Time Manchester Experience: 3-5 years in cost engineering or estimations Sector: Infrastructure (B2B estimation services) About the Role Manchester Staff are working with a dynamic and innovative company in the construction industry looking for a Cost Engineer to develop accurate, competitive cost estimates for infrastructure projects, working closely with internal...

Job Description Cost Engineer - Permanent, Full-Time Manchester Experience: 3-5 years in cost engineering or estimationsSector: Infrastructure (B2B estimation services)About the RoleManchester Staff are working with a dynamic and innovative company in the construction industry looking for a Cost Engineer to develop accurate, competitive cost estimates for infrastructure projects, working closely...

You will be joining a team responsible for (not limited to) maintaining and building api-gateways, comprehensive authentication and authorization solutions and user and partner onboarding APIs.

You should be passionate about creating robust, secure, and scalable systems, particularly within the domain of identity and access management.

You will be joining a team responsible for (not limited to) maintaining and building api-gateways, comprehensive authentication and authorization solutions and user and partner onboarding APIs.

You should be passionate about creating robust, secure, and scalable systems, particularly within the domain of identity and access management.

Lead DevOps Engineer Pay up to £92,522 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. This is a real and significant DevOps leadership role in the UK's largest government department. Here you will have the freedom and autonomy to drive the development of our technical landscape and define what DevOps looks like in DWP DWP. Digital with...

You will design and deliver intelligent agentic workflows, leveraging frontier LLMs. Working with their data scientists and backend engineers, you’ll be responsible for making unstructured legal data usable, scalable, and impactful. This is not a prototyping role — you’ll ship well-engineered, production-ready systems that directly impact customers.

You will be a great fit if you: - Have 5+ years full-stack experience, with strong JavaScript/TypeScript depth. - Are backend-leaning, with deep Node. js and API experience. - Have previously worked in early-stage start-ups or very lean engineering teams. - Have extensive evidence of being a hands-on individual contributor in complex codebases.

You will be responsible for the entirety of the back end features of the products.

You will be in charge of building scalable backend services and awesome messaging queues.

You will be responsible for developing a Python-based back end platform that's handling 100,000+s of interactions daily.

You will work directly with the founder and research team to turn frontier research into a world-class, production-grade AI platform, while building the team, culture, and systems that can scale. This role combines deep technical ownership, architectural leadership, and people leadership.

You will drive the adoption of modern AI frameworks, AIOps best practices and scalable cloud-native architectures.

You will do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with talented colleagues that will help you to develop and grow.

You will support your colleagues and more junior developers, providing direction support as you solve challenging problems together.

Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence,...

You will help shape how devices are assessed and qualified for use in space, drawing on existing data, modelling, and targeted testing where appropriate. - This role suits a physicist or engineer with research experience and strong technical writing skills, who wants to move into applied space work.