Autonomous Lab Orchestration Engineer

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford; Oxford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced holiday pay

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Hospital Cash Plan

Therapy Services

Perk Box

Electric Car Scheme

Job summary

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford in the United Kingdom is hiring a Software Engineer to build software that makes autonomous laboratories work. You will join the AI and Robotics Institute and collaborate with engineers across software, mechanical, electrical, robotics, and biology to translate experiments into reliable workflows.

You will design the execution engine, handle bounded and recoverable behavior, and ensure safety and observability as hardware and biology drive decisions.

Qualifications

• Solid software engineering fundamentals with CI/CD and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software that orchestrates autonomous laboratory systems including scheduling, workflow execution, state management, error handling, and recovery.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Design patterns

AI coding tools

ROS

System integration

Debugging

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Job description

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford in the United Kingdom is hiring a Software Engineer to build software that makes autonomous laboratories work. You will join the AI and Robotics Institute and collaborate with engineers across software, mechanical, electrical, robotics, and biology to translate experiments into reliable workflows.

You will design the execution engine, handle bounded and recoverable behavior, and ensure safety and observability as hardware and biology drive decisions.