Data Engineer (Forward Deployed)
Ellison Institute of Technology1 month ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Partner with scientists and engineers to deliver robust, reproducible data pipelines across research disciplines.
- Own ingestion, storage, curation, and transformation of biological and scientific datasets in varied formats.
- Package and deploy code in research environments using containers such as Docker.
- Scale processing across distributed cloud warehouses and storage, Kubernetes, Slurm, Spark, and Ray.
- Promote maintainable, testable, reliable data engineering and data management practices.
- Provide end-to-end ownership from low-level performance through user-facing interfaces and contribute to broader EIT platform engineering.
Requirements
- Strong programming experience in Python with emphasis on code quality, reliability, and readability.
- Deep understanding of data storage and manipulation, including relational systems, sharding, parallelisation, indexing, and scalability.
- Experience with cloud compute platforms and varied Linux environments.
- Experience working at scale on distributed or parallelised data systems.
- Knowledge of reproducibility, version control, schema design, data lineage, and single-source-of-truth practices.
- Ability to collaborate directly with researchers and engineers and translate complex requirements into scalable data systems.
- Preferred: experience preparing data for machine-learning pre-training, post-training, and evaluations.
- Preferred: scientific background or qualifications in genomics, proteomics, or related fields.
- Preferred: bioinformatics experience and familiarity with industry-standard tooling such as NextFlow.
Benefits
- Salary is dependent on experience and includes a travel allowance and bonus.
- 25 days of annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year, with the option to purchase 5 additional days in January and July.
- 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, and Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Family Planning support, neurodiversity support including advice and assessments, and coaching and therapy services.
- Hybrid schedule: 2 days per week in the Oxford office, 1 day in either Oxford or London, and 2 days from any UK location.
- Applicants must have permanent UK work authorization and be willing to travel; sponsorship may be considered case by case.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringForward Deployed
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.