Post-doctoral Research Fellow - AR3048

Overview

The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews is seeking a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to work with Professor Blesson Varghese on research for the EPSRC-funded National Edge AI Hub. The Hub is a 12 million GBP flagship investment involving 15 universities and more than 75 industry partners. The post is full time and fixed term for 18 months, starting on 5 January 2027 or as soon as possible afterwards, on site.

What you will do

The fellow develops a personal research area addressing systems challenges in building real-world machine learning systems for resource-limited environments such as edge computing. Duties include planning and delivering research with accompanying software and publications, collaborating with universities and partners to meet the Hub's objectives, supervising research students where appropriate and helping to develop research proposals.

Requirements

The successful applicant will hold, or be near completing, a PhD in computer science or a related discipline, with expertise in machine learning systems and algorithms suited to cloud-edge, mobile or IoT settings.

What you get

The salary is 38,784 GBP per year. The package includes a financial contribution to relocation (subject to eligibility), membership of the USS pension scheme with generous employer contributions, hybrid working with partial homeworking where appropriate, a staff discount scheme, free staff parking, car share and cycle to work schemes, subsidised local bus travel, subsidised sports membership, reduced tuition fees on degree programmes for staff, training and development access, a salary sacrifice scheme, and 34 days of annual leave plus 5 public holidays.

How to apply

Applicants should quote the reference AR3048SB. The university particularly welcomes applications from people from Black, Asian, minority ethnic and minority religion backgrounds and from LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

Key dates

The closing date is 2 November 2026, and interviews are on 13 November 2026.