Oxford-based AI & Robotics Platform Lead (4 days)

Ellison Institute, LLC; Oxford; Hybride; GBP 110 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Enhanced holiday pay

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Hospital Cash Plan

Therapy Services

Perk Box

Electric Car Scheme

Résumé du poste

Ellison Institute in Oxford is seeking a senior engineering leader to head the core software team building platforms that blend scientific workflows, AI, robotics, and laboratory automation. You will set technical direction, organize delivery, and personally design systems while coding and solving complex integration challenges.

Collaborating with scientists, hardware engineers, and product teams, you will translate evolving requirements into reliable platforms, guide architecture decisions,

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent practical experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading a software engineering team, including planning, delegation, mentoring, and individual development.
• Strong, current hands-on development skills, including Python, service APIs, typed interfaces, and AI-integrated systems, with evidence of personally delivering substantial software into operational use.
• Experience combining team leadership with sustained contribution to architecture, coding, testing, debugging, and deployment.
• Experience delivering software platforms or complex integrated systems through deployment and ongoing operation.
• Practical knowledge of agentic AI systems, including tool use, context management, orchestration, evaluation, and controlled interaction with external systems.
• Experience with communications middleware and message-based or publish-subscribe architectures.
• Understanding of asynchronous execution, concurrency, persistence, and recovery from partial failures, including message delivery, retries, and idempotency.
• Experience applying software verification and validation, supported by clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and test evidence.
• Ability to balance delivery priorities with engineering quality and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop the core software team, setting priorities, delegating effectively, providing feedback, and supporting recruitment and professional development.
• Own platform delivery, translating product needs into achievable plans and managing capacity, dependencies, and technical risks.
• Personally design, implement, test, and deploy substantial software capabilities, remaining closely involved in integration and operational troubleshooting.
• Set technical direction and define modular architectures, shared interfaces, and reusable components across the platform.
• Guide and contribute to agentic capabilities, including tool integration, context and state management, orchestration, and evaluation.
• Establish appropriate boundaries between AI-driven decisions, deterministic execution, human oversight, and actions affecting physical systems.
• Develop distributed services, communications middleware, APIs, and integrations with equipment and external platforms.
• Take prototypes into supported operation, addressing reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and usability.
• Lead verification and validation through automated testing, simulation, agent evaluation, and system testing, with clear acceptance criteria.
• Establish effective code review, deployment, observability, and documentation practices, coordinating with infrastructure, data, and application teams.

Connaissances

Leadership

Python

APIs

Typed interfaces

AI-integrated systems

Formation

Degree in Software Engineering

Degree in Computer Science

Outils

ROS 2

DDS

Description du poste

Ellison Institute in Oxford is seeking a senior engineering leader to head the core software team building platforms that blend scientific workflows, AI, robotics, and laboratory automation. You will set technical direction, organize delivery, and personally design systems while coding and solving complex integration challenges.

Collaborating with scientists, hardware engineers, and product teams, you will translate evolving requirements into reliable platforms, guide architecture decisions,