Product Engineer
Ellison Institute of Technology2 months ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end from product hypothesis through shipping and instrumentation.
- Work across frontend state, API contracts, real-time data flows, and underlying application systems.
- Build new product surfaces while strengthening and extending existing live systems.
- Coordinate with Machine Learning, AI Research, Data Engineering, and Platform teams.
- Prototype and iterate on loosely specified problems with real users.
- Maintain reliability, user experience, reproducibility, and provenance in scientific workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product or software engineering experience.
- Experience shipping real products in a fast-moving environment with independent ownership.
- Full-stack engineering experience with frontend as the primary surface and proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and React or similar technologies.
- Strong product sense and ability to balance technical and user-experience considerations.
- Proactive communication and cross-team dependency management skills.
- Interest in autonomous labs, scientific automation, and the needs of scientific users.
- Preferred: software experience in scientific, pharmaceutical, biotech, research, or clinical laboratory settings.
- Preferred: familiarity with instrument APIs, lab protocols, and scientific data-quality expectations.
- Preferred: experience building AI/ML-powered product features or working with ML teams.
- Preferred: experience with human-in-the-loop or human-machine interaction products.
Benefits
- Enhanced holiday pay, pension, life assurance, income protection, private medical insurance, hospital cash plan, therapy services, Perk Box, and an electric car scheme.
- Full-time, on-site position in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Tech Stack
Categories
Product 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.