Senior Software Engineer
Ellison Institute of Technology2 days ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust services, APIs, CLI tools, and software modules for scientific applications and products.
- Integrate ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines into cohesive, highly available, low-latency systems.
- Own the production lifecycle from architectural design and coding through automated testing, benchmarking, deployment, and observability.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers, AI Scientists, Software Engineers, and domain experts.
- Promote high standards for code quality, system security, transparency, and software engineering practices.
Requirements
- MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Extensive Software Engineering experience and strong Python proficiency, including production implementation and deployment of robust, scalable distributed systems.
- Experience designing, managing, and orchestrating systems involving scalable data infrastructure, hardware interfaces, and machine learning models.
- Expertise defining and exposing functionality through clean, documented APIs, including REST or gRPC.
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines and reproducible development workflows.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for explaining system design, architecture decisions, and engineering practices.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, Ray, Spark, Slurm, Volcano, Kueue, vLLM, SGLang, GitOps, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and production systems across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.
- Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced scientific R&D environment and translate scientific objectives into high-quality software.
Benefits
- Competitive salary dependent on experience, 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, and Private Medical Insurance with hospital cash plan.
- Employee discounts, electric car scheme, Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme, and Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Family Planning, neurodiversity support, coaching, and therapy services.
- Hybrid working in Oxford and London, with 3 office days per week: 2 days in Oxford and 1 day in London.
- Applicants must have permanent UK work authorization, live within commuting distance of Oxford or London or relocate, and be willing to travel; sponsorship may be considered case by case.
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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.