Data Engineer (Autonomous Systems)
Ellison Institute of Technology1 month ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build high-throughput, low-latency ingestion for video, sensor telemetry, robot joint state, and instrument control signals.
- Develop data systems across edge devices, MQTT brokers, Kafka topics, cloud storage, and APIs.
- Transform robot, instrument, and video streams into structured database transactions and traceable knowledge graphs.
- Prepare formats, sampling, labeling, and provenance for model training and evaluation.
- Collaborate with AI researchers, software engineers, robotics engineers, and domain scientists on autonomous laboratory operations.
Requirements
- Strong programming experience in Python with an emphasis on code quality, reliability, and performance.
- Experience with real-time data streaming, including Kafka, Pub/Sub, or equivalent systems.
- Ability to own systems end-to-end from device output through APIs and build maintainable engineering solutions.
- Understanding of reproducibility, version control, schema design, and data lineage.
- Clear and respectful communication skills for collaboration with scientists, roboticists, and researchers.
- Preferred experience with automated laboratories, life sciences, instrument APIs, lab protocols, or physical-system data pipelines.
- Preferred experience with stateful stream processing, ingestion and consumption APIs, graph stores, entity resolution, data curation, or model-development data systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule: two days per week in the Oxford office, one day in either Oxford or London, and two days working from any UK location.
- 25 days of annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year, with the option to purchase 5 more days.
- Employer pension contribution of 7.5% with a minimum employee contribution of 5%.
- Life assurance, income protection, private medical insurance, and a hospital cash plan.
- Employee discounts, electric car scheme, Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, family planning support, neurodiversity support, and coaching and therapy services.
- Permanent UK work authorization is required, with willingness to travel; sponsorship may be considered case by case.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Ellison Institute of Technology
Ellison Institute of Technology is a privately held research institute headquartered in Oxford, founded in 2023, focused on AI, robotics, health and generative biology, climate/CO2 management, and sustainable agriculture. It runs research programs and labs to translate discoveries into products and spinout companies, working across science, engineering, and policy. Its Oxford campus includes a 300,000 sq ft facility slated for 2027 and a planned 2 million sq ft expansion at The Oxford Science Park, designed by Foster + Partners.