Current Vacancies

Associate Professor (or Professorship) of Statistics

Permanent academic appointment in the Department of Statistics, with an associated Tutorial Fellowship at Jesus College. The role combines internationally recognised research with undergraduate and graduate teaching and supervision across the discipline. Full details and application information.

Closing date: Monday 30 March 2026
 

Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Oxford Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Full-time, fixed-term appointment (15 months) within the Oxford Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (OxCSML) group, developing diffusion and flow-based modelling methods for inverse problems and contributing to the group’s wider research programme. Full details and application information.

Closing date: Friday 13 March 2026
 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Oxford Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Full-time, fixed-term appointment until 14 January 2028 contributing to research on the reliability of large language models and supporting the computational infrastructure underpinning the project. Full details and application information.

Closing date: Friday 13 March 2026
 

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Full-time, fixed-term research position (three years) working on ancestral recombination graph inference and analysis as part of an international project in predictive plant breeding. Full details and application information.

Closing date: Tuesday 7 April 2026
 

Research Assistant

Oxford Computational Statistics and Machine Learning

Part-time, fixed-term appointment (20 hours per week) until 30 September 2026, supporting research on uncertainty quantification and the reliability of language models within the Oxford Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (OxCSML) group. Full details and application information.

Closing date: Friday 13 March 2026
 

Florence Nightingale Bicentenary Fellow in Statistical Machine Learning

Full-time, fixed-term fellowship (three years) intended as a career development position, with approximately half the teaching load of a standard faculty appointment. The role supports research and teaching in statistical machine learning and related areas, with a start date in September 2026. Full details and application information.

Closing date: Tuesday 13 April 2026

 

Summer Internships

As a department, we offer paid summer research internships. If you would like to learn more about our internships, we have a dedicated page for them.

 

Wider University

Vacancies for the wider University can be found on either the staff HR self-service page HR Self-Service | Staff Gateway (ox.ac.uk) or on the Oxford University Jobs page.

The University also has its own Temporary Employment Service which provides temporary assignments throughout the University. 

I think the best thing about my department is being able to work in offices and share ideas with others in a very communal setting. I find that the department is very good at encouraging communication between other grad students and postdocs and that there is a very real sense of community here.