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Research Associate

University of EdinburghUK

Salary
£41k – £49k
Posted
1 August 2026
Work mode
Full-time
Sponsor match
high
International SportspersonWorker (A rating)
Role overview

University of Edinburgh is hiring a Research Associate in UK, a full-time scientific & qa role advertised as contract. The advertised salary is £41k – £49k. University of Edinburgh holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the International Sportsperson route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Description UE07: £41,064 - £48,822 per annum CSE / School of Informatics Full Time: 35 hours per week Fixed term: 24 months The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a 2-year Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA), to do research on reliable constrained generation with large language models via neuro-symbolic models, with applications to biological data, under the supervision of Dr Antonio Vergari and in collaboration with Prof. Wouter Boomsma from the Univer…
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  • Employer: University of Edinburgh — confirmed licensed sponsor
  • Visa route: International Sportsperson
  • Advertised salary: £41k – £49k
  • How this salary compares: about 22% above the £40,012 median across 1,012 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
  • Location: UK · Full-time
  • Similar roles nearby: 158 other live scientific & qa roles in UK browse them
  • Posted: 1 August 2026
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