Research Engineer - Knowledge Computing / Information Retrieval / LLM

Research Engineer – Knowledge Computing / Information Retrieval / LLM

We are currently partnered with a world-leading research center in the UK looking to expand their team with a Knowledge Computing Researcher. In this role, you would be working as part of a high calibre team of engineers and researchers to build intelligent agent systems powered by large language models, knowledge graphs, and multi-modal semantic search.

This is a unique opportunity to apply cutting-edge research to real-world AI systems with meaningful impact across applications such as intelligent assistants, knowledge-based reasoning, and agent collaboration.

This is a permanent opportunity based onsite in Edinburgh, Scotland

Key Responsibilities for this Research Engineer position:

• Design and implement modules for knowledge-augmented agent systems (retrieval, memory modeling, task orchestration)
• Integrate structured and unstructured knowledge from multiple modalities (text, image, video) into agent workflows
• Develop solutions coupling retrieval (KGs, RAG, databases) with planning, reasoning, and execution logic
• Collaborate with engineering teams on LLM platforms, search infrastructure, and agent systems
• Translate research into production-ready applications across AI development tools, QA systems, and assistant use-cases
• Contribute to core algorithm development and support product scaling initiatives

Key Requirements:

• PhD in NLP, Machine Learning, Knowledge Engineering, or related fields
• 3+ years of experience in at least one of: Knowledge technologies (RDF, SPARQL, OWL, SKOS); NLP (LLMs, entity detection, question answering, agent systems); Deep learning (transformers, LSTM, etc.)
• 2+ publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, ICLR, AAAI)
• Strong coding and software design skills
• Experience working across research and applied development in a collaborative environment

Keywords: Knowledge Graphs / LLMs / Semantic Search / Knowledge Reasoning / NLP / Agent Systems / RAG / OWL / SPARQL / Transformers / Deep Learning / AI Assistants / QA Systems / Pytorch / TensorFlow / Graph Reasoning / Multi-Modal AI / Knowledge Engineering / Research to Production

If you are interested in this Research Engineer position, please send a CV to ts@eu-recruit.com

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