Science and Technology Lead Generation Compute Architectures

Salary Levels

£70,000, £90,000, £105,000 (offers will be calibrated on benchmarked experience levels and assessment against our selection criteria)

Kings X, London;
Tues - Thurs (3 days) at HQ, Monday + Friday, anywhere

Full‑time

Permanent

ARIA is a new R&D funding agency built to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. We fund scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of the possible.

From climate change to AI, society faces enormous challenges and opportunities that can be uniquely addressed by science and technology. ARIA was created to activate the UK’s world‑class R&D in new ways, so we can meet these head on.

Our success is shaped by one question: how will ARIA transform the lives of the UK’s future generations? Whether that’s a life‑changing new technology or a burgeoning new industry, it should be obvious that ARIA played a catalytic role.

If you want to help make breakthroughs like these possible, come and build ARIA with us.

As an ARIA Science and Technology Lead, you will have the rare chance to catalyse breakthroughs that could change the world. You'll sit alongside Programme Director Suraj Bramhavar and their Programme Specialist on ARIA's Scaling Compute programme (including the newly announced Scaling Inference Lab). You’ll be exposed to every aspect of the programme's technical management from design through approval, project selection, and delivery.

Your impact will extend beyond a single programme; you will play a key role in strengthening the wider Nature Computes Better opportunity space, with a deep, evolving understanding of programmes and projects over time. As Programme Directors join the opportunity space and new programmes are launched, you will surface insights that build on existing ARIA‑funded technologies, accelerate discovery, and turn past lessons into future breakthroughs, maximising impact across the portfolio.

We’re looking for an adaptable technical professional who’s strongly motivated by the opportunity to catalyse a technological step change. You’ll be working in a bold, talented & agile team, funding projects (‘Creators’) across the entire R&D ecosystem, from startups to universities, in the pursuit of groundbreaking advancements that will shape the future of science & technology.

Suraj Bramhavar is an electrical engineer and member of ARIA’s first cohort of Programme Directors. His work focuses on how we can redefine the way computers process information to build dramatically more efficient computers. Suraj joined ARIA from Sync Computing, where he was co‑founder and CTO. Prior to that he was a scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Intel Labs.

Suraj Bramhavar is leading an ARIA programme to reduce the cost of AI hardware by 1000x.

I am looking for someone to be a true thought partner in defining a roadmap for future AI systems. This role will help identify innovative technologies (both inside or outside our existing portfolio), estimate when/how they can be reasonably inserted in working systems, and figure out how ARIA’s programmes can facilitate it all. In addition to that, you will have a hand in identifying orthogonal opportunities to build research programmes within the Nature Computes Better Opportunity Space.

Suraj Bramhavar, Programme Director

The scope of the role will evolve as ARIA continues to grow, but will broadly involve the following:

• Act as the technical lead, with the Programme Director and their Programme Specialist, to shape and deliver a bold programme of research aimed at reducing the cost of AI hardware by 1000x.
• You will serve as the ‘first user’ of the technologies being developed within the programme.
• Review project proposals, grant applications, assess technical milestones, and stay close to the ground on what’s being built and tested by Creator teams.
• Plan, lead, and contribute to technical discussions in project meetings, workshops, and formal reviews, bringing depth, challenge, and direction to every interaction.
• Provide evidence‑based technical insight to the Programme Director…