Innovate UK: Recruiting Expert Assessors in AI/ML
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Innovate UK is recruiting Expert Assessors in AI/ML; particularly senior technical leaders with current practice from both industry and academia. They are looking for people who can make evidence-based technical judgements on differentiation, feasibility, evaluation quality, and delivery risk (data/compute/deployment) and commercial viability, ideally with a mix of recent AI/ML exposure and experience leading delivery. Of particularly interest are people with recent (ideally last 2–3 years) expertise in one or more of:

  •  Foundation models & transformers (LLMs, multimodal, adaptation, evaluation)
  • Model efficiency (quantisation, distillation, inference optimisation, deployment constraints)
  • Safety/robustness/assurance and interpretability
  • Graph ML / GNNs, diffusion & generative models, RL
  • Applied ML engineering (data pipelines, MLOps, benchmarking, deployment)

 If you’re a Principal/Staff engineer, Tech Architect, Head of ML/AI, Research Lead, CTO/Chief Scientist (or similar), academic, please consider applying.

Why become an Expert Assessor?
 As an Expert Assessor, you will be responsible for reviewing funding applications, providing impartial and constructive evaluations that help shape the future of innovative projects across the UK.

  • Make an impact: Your insights will help inform funding & investment decisions taken by Innovate UK, directly influencing innovation and economic growth for the UK.
  • Diverse expertise welcomed: Join a broad community of professionals from business, academia, clinical practice, social innovation and beyond.
  • Flexible commitment: Assessments are allocated per competition, allowing you to contribute on your own schedule.

  • Competitive remuneration: You will be paid for the work you complete, this will vary based on each competition and is calculated according to the maximum wordcount and number of pages allocated to applicants. We will ensure your workload is manageable and tailored to your expertise.

    Find out more and apply at: Assessor Application Form - UK Research and Innovation - Citizen Space