AI Engineer Jobs in the UK

86 AI engineer roles in the UK are open on Real Analyst Jobs as of 15 November 2026, at 46 companies. 32 (37%) are at employers on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors. The most are at OpenAI (9), Helsing (7) and Addepar1 (4). By location: London (58), Belfast (3) and Bristol (2). 8 postings say they will not sponsor a visa; they stay on the list, last.

A UK sponsor licence here means the employer is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for Skilled Worker visas (register of 27 October 2026). A licence means the employer can sponsor; it does not mean every role will be sponsored.

11 of the 86 roles (13%) state pay in the posting, in the employer's own words and currency.

Roles whose title names AI or machine learning work: ML engineer, AI engineer, LLM and generative AI engineer, MLOps and AI platform, applied and research scientist in AI, forward deployed engineer, AI product manager, AI infrastructure and AI data engineer. Front-end, mobile, design and sales roles are left out even when the team works on AI. Analyst roles with AI in the title stay on the analyst board.

Roles are read daily from the employers' own career pages and the page updates every hour. UK licences come from the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, matched by company name. What a posting says about sponsorship is read from its own text. Reposting sites are left out. Nothing is estimated.