Guide · updated 12 Nov 2026
AI companies in London that can sponsor visas (November 2026)
72 companies in London have open AI and ML roles and hold a Skilled Worker sponsor licence, which means they can sponsor a visa. Between them they have 382 open roles. The most are at Faculty (33), Mistral AI (32), Amazon (30), Wayve (16) and Anthropic (13).
At a glance · 12 Nov 2026
- 72 companies with 382 open AI and ML roles in London, all on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (checked 12 Nov 2026).
- 10 of them have London postings that mention visa sponsorship: Anthropic (12), Apollo Research (6), Callosum (5), Monzo (5), Wayve (5), Conduct (3), Marshmallow (2), Plumerai (2), Jump Trading (1) and Solve Intelligence (1).
- 29 also hold a Senior or Specialist Worker licence, the route for moving to the UK office from the same company abroad.
- By type of role: 260 AI and ML engineering, 71 forward-deployed, 43 data science and 8 research.
Most open roles
The 10 London AI employers hiring the most
| Company | What it builds | London AI roles | Mention visa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty | London applied AI company building AI systems for government, healthcare and business. | 33 | – |
| Mistral AI | French AI lab building open-weight and commercial language models. | 32 | – |
| Amazon | Retail and AWS, with AI teams across AWS, Alexa, advertising and its AGI group. | 30 | – |
| Wayve | London company building end-to-end AI for self-driving cars. | 16 | 5 |
| Anthropic | AI safety company that builds the Claude models. | 13 | 12 |
| OpenAI | AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT models. | 13 | – |
| Palantir | Data and AI platforms for governments and companies, and the origin of the forward-deployed engineer. | 13 | – |
| Databricks | Data and AI platform for storing, processing and training on company data. | 12 | – |
| Wise | International money transfers and multi-currency accounts. | 11 | – |
| ASOS | Online fashion retailer. | 10 | – |
7 companies
AI labs and model builders
Companies that train their own models: language, speech, voice and video.
Mistral AI
French AI lab building open-weight and commercial language models.
32 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Anthropic
AI safety company that builds the Claude models.
13 open AI roles in London · 12 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
OpenAI
AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT models.
13 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Cohere
Builds language, embedding and search models for businesses.
7 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Speechmatics
Cambridge speech recognition company: speech to text and voice AI.
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
ElevenLabs
AI voice and audio models: text to speech, dubbing and voice agents.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Writer
Generative AI platform for enterprises, with its own Palmyra models.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
6 companies
AI start-ups building products and agents
Younger companies whose product is an AI assistant, agent or tool.
Lovable
AI app builder that turns a description into a working web app.
8 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Perplexity
AI answer engine that searches the web and cites its sources.
7 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Decagon
AI agents that handle customer service for large companies.
3 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Cursor
AI code editor.
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Meticulous
AI tool that writes and maintains front-end tests automatically.
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Granola
London start-up making an AI notepad for meetings.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
5 companies
AI for science, health and the physical world
Models for drug discovery, protein design, engineering, healthcare and driving.
Wayve
London company building end-to-end AI for self-driving cars.
16 open AI roles in London · 5 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Isomorphic Labs
Alphabet's AI drug discovery company, spun out of DeepMind.
9 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
PhysicsX
AI models that simulate physics, for engineers designing cars, aircraft and machines.
5 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Latent Labs
London start-up building generative AI models for protein design.
3 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Basecamp Research
London start-up building biological datasets from nature and AI models for protein design.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
2 companies
AI safety and interpretability
Research organisations that test frontier models and study how they work.
Apollo Research
AI safety lab that evaluates frontier models for dangerous behaviour such as deception.
6 open AI roles in London · 6 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Goodfire
Interpretability research company building tools to understand and edit neural networks.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
6 companies
AI infrastructure, data and chips
The compute, data platforms, training data and hardware that AI runs on.
Databricks
Data and AI platform for storing, processing and training on company data.
12 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Nebius
AI cloud: GPU infrastructure for training and running models.
7 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Scale AI
Training data and evaluation for AI models.
5 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Encord
London data platform for labelling, curating and evaluating AI training data.
4 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Graphcore
Bristol company designing AI processors.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Prolific
Platform for recruiting research participants and human data for training and testing AI.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
4 companies
Applied AI and data platforms
Companies that build AI and data systems for governments and businesses, or use AI across a big platform.
Faculty
London applied AI company building AI systems for government, healthcare and business.
33 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Amazon
Retail and AWS, with AI teams across AWS, Alexa, advertising and its AGI group.
30 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Palantir
Data and AI platforms for governments and companies, and the origin of the forward-deployed engineer.
13 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Sayari
Corporate ownership and supply-chain risk data.
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
5 companies
Developer tools and software
Software companies building AI into tools for developers and teams.
Intercom
Customer service software built around its AI agent, Fin.
8 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
JetBrains
Developer tools such as IntelliJ IDEA and Kotlin, with AI coding assistants.
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Figma
Collaborative design software.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Smartsheet
Work management software.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Vercel
Cloud platform for web apps, the company behind Next.js and the v0 AI app builder.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
7 companies
Fintech
Banks, payments and lenders with ML and AI teams for fraud, credit and customer service.
Wise
International money transfers and multi-currency accounts.
11 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Monzo
UK digital bank.
6 open AI roles in London · 5 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Lendable
London lender using ML to price loans, credit cards and car finance.
3 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Marshmallow
Car insurance, started for people who are new to the UK.
2 open AI roles in London · 2 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
GoCardless
Bank payments and direct debit for businesses.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Stripe
Online payments infrastructure.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Thought Machine
London company building cloud core banking software.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
5 companies
Trading firms
Quantitative trading and investment firms hiring for machine learning and research.
Hudson River Trading
Quantitative trading firm.
7 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Jane Street
Quantitative trading firm and market maker.
7 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Qube Research & Technologies
Quantitative investment manager.
5 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Jump Trading
Quantitative trading firm.
3 open AI roles in London · 1 mentions visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Squarepoint
Quantitative investment manager.
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
5 companies
Consumer apps and marketplaces
Consumer companies using ML for recommendations, search, pricing and logistics.
ASOS
Online fashion retailer.
10 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Deliveroo
Food and grocery delivery app.
8 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Spotify
Music and podcast streaming, with ML for recommendations and personalisation.
7 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Trainline
Train and coach ticket app.
6 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Multiverse
Apprenticeships and training in data and AI skills for working adults.
4 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
20 companies
Other employers
More companies on the register with open AI roles in London.
Helsing
8 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Callosum
5 open AI roles in London · 5 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Relation Therapeutics
4 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Conduct
3 open AI roles in London · 3 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Legora
3 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Valarian
3 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Applied Intuition
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
BeyondMath
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
CuspAI
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Nevis
2 open AI roles in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Plumerai
2 open AI roles in London · 2 mention visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Easol
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Electric Twin
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Fractile
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Inherent
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Mind Foundry
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Moonpig
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Neuphonic
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Solve Intelligence
1 open AI role in London · 1 mentions visa sponsorship · licensed sponsor, A rating
Tessl
1 open AI role in London · licensed sponsor, A rating
Method
How this list is made
We read the public job boards of about 150 AI employers every day and keep a role only if the employer is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors. This list counts AI, ML and data roles based in London, including hybrid roles and roles open in several cities, at employers whose licence covers the Skilled Worker route. Postings that say the company can't sponsor are left out.
It lists companies with AI roles open now, not every AI company in London: a company with no open AI roles drops off until it posts one. The counts update every day. The descriptions are ours.
Questions
- Which AI companies in London sponsor visas?
- As of 12 Nov 2026, 72 companies with open AI roles in London hold a Skilled Worker sponsor licence. The most roles are at Faculty (33), Mistral AI (32), Amazon (30), Wayve (16) and Anthropic (13). A licence means a company can sponsor a visa; check each posting.
- Do AI start-ups in London sponsor visas?
- Many hold a sponsor licence. AI start-ups on the register with open roles in London include Lovable, Perplexity, Decagon, Cursor, Meticulous and Granola.
- Which London AI companies mention visa sponsorship in their postings?
- Anthropic (12), Apollo Research (6), Callosum (5), Monzo (5), Wayve (5), Conduct (3), Marshmallow (2), Plumerai (2), Jump Trading (1) and Solve Intelligence (1), counting London postings that mention visa sponsorship. Most postings don't say either way, so ask the recruiter early.
- What salary do you need for a Skilled Worker visa?
- Usually at least £41,700 a year or the going rate for the occupation, whichever is higher. If you're under 26 or a recent graduate, it can be 70% of the going rate, but at least £33,400.
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