AI Engineer
Ellison Institute of Technology3 days ago
Oxford, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Translate scientific objectives and constraints into agent instructions, tool inputs, and candidate checks.
- Build agent workflows that retrieve evidence, propose design steps, explain assumptions, and identify decisions requiring scientific review.
- Integrate scientific tools, models, calculators, data storage, compute, approvals, and progress-reporting capabilities.
- Implement candidate generation, filtering, and ranking, and prepare sequences and supporting evidence for experimental testing.
- Create reference cases, regression checks, and evaluations to compare models and configurations for quality, speed, completion, and cost.
- Investigate failures in reasoning, tool use, and execution, then improve instructions, context handling, and code.
- Record references, tool and model versions, parameters, and output locations for reproducibility.
- Write tested, maintainable code, participate in reviews, and support deployed workflows.
Requirements
- Experience shipping multi-step agentic workflows with tool integrations and context management.
- Experience building reusable agent skills or tool interfaces, such as with MCP.
- Experience writing APIs and data-handling code with automated tests and version control.
- Experience integrating tools or services and handling invalid inputs, asynchronous execution, and partial failures.
- Ability to convert examples and failure cases into repeatable evaluations and use results to change agent behavior.
- Ability to work with domain experts and turn unfamiliar requirements into testable software.
- Desirable: familiarity with protein design, enzyme engineering, computational biology, or scientific software.
- Desirable: experience with sequence or structure analysis, molecular modelling, protein-design tools, literature retrieval, evidence-linked reporting, or scientific data formats.
- Desirable: familiarity with workflow engines, containers, cloud or HPC compute, and data-access controls.
Benefits
- Enhanced holiday pay.
- Pension, life assurance, and income protection.
- Private medical insurance and hospital cash plan.
- Therapy services and Perk Box.
- Electric car scheme.
- Hybrid workplace in Oxford, United Kingdom; full-time role.
- Collaborative and inclusive working environment.
Categories
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.