Agent-Native Database Systems Engineer

European Tech Recruit; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit in Edinburgh is seeking Researchers and Engineers to join a leading deep-tech group focused on agent-native data management and AI data infrastructure. You will work on database kernels, query processing, storage engines, and distributed systems, translating research into scalable real-world systems.

The role blends research with hands-on system design, benchmarking and performance optimisation, tackling AI agents, vector search, RAG, semantic data management, and

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong background in database systems, computer systems, distributed systems, AI systems, or operating systems.
• Solid understanding of database internals including query optimisation, query execution, storage engines, indexing, transactions, concurrency, and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, evaluate and performance-debug database and AI data infrastructure components.
• Collaborate across research and production engineering to translate research into scalable systems.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

Go

Benchmarking

Profiling

Workload analysis

Performance optimisation

Distributed databases

Systems design

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DuckDB

Spark

Flink

Velox

ClickHouse

RocksDB

TiDB

Job description

European Tech Recruit in Edinburgh is seeking Researchers and Engineers to join a leading deep-tech group focused on agent-native data management and AI data infrastructure. You will work on database kernels, query processing, storage engines, and distributed systems, translating research into scalable real-world systems.

The role blends research with hands-on system design, benchmarking and performance optimisation, tackling AI agents, vector search, RAG, semantic data management, and