AI Systems Engineer for Bio Discovery

Earlham Institute; Norwich; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

The Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK, invites applications for a Research Software Engineer or Senior Research Software Engineer to join Professor Ke Li's AI for Biology Group. The role focuses on designing and building an AI-agent platform linking models, tools, datasets, and workflows for AI-driven biological discovery.

Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent experience, strong software engineering skills, and a track record in complex research software, AI systems or data-intensive

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research/industrial experience in CS/AI or related field.
• Strong hands-on software engineering experience with complex research software.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the AI-agent platform for the programme.
• Implement agent orchestration, tool registries, data interfaces and model integration.
• Develop reusable agentic workflows and a demonstrator for scientific reasoning and hypothesis generation.
• Ensure robust evaluation, versioning, provenance and safe tool execution.
• Collaborate with AI researchers and biologists to enable AI-driven discovery.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

Research software development

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Containers

CI/CD

APIs

Databases

Workflow tools

Job description

The Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK, invites applications for a Research Software Engineer or Senior Research Software Engineer to join Professor Ke Li's AI for Biology Group. The role focuses on designing and building an AI-agent platform linking models, tools, datasets, and workflows for AI-driven biological discovery.

Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent experience, strong software engineering skills, and a track record in complex research software, AI systems or data-intensive