Research Engineer, AI for Bio-Analysis & LLM Systems

Hlx Life Sciences; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Hlx Life Sciences, located in Greater London, is seeking a Research Engineer to oversee the research function. You will transform product feedback into actionable research, collaborating closely with biologists and scientific contractors.

Your role involves scoping, experiment design, and implementation of complex AI-powered systems. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in ML/AI, experience with training and evaluation data pipelines, and fluency in Python.

Qualifications

• Experience building LLM-powered systems, including prompts and context engineering.
• Track what frontier labs are doing and apply relevant insights.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, especially in Python.

Responsibilities

• Turn research directions into projects: scoping, experiment design, and implementation.
• Define relevant metrics for performance evaluation of systems.
• Build evaluation infrastructure and develop research agent stack.

Skills

Python

Experience building ML/AI systems

Evaluation and benchmarks

Reproducibility and observability

Confounds consideration

Job description

Hlx Life Sciences, located in Greater London, is seeking a Research Engineer to oversee the research function. You will transform product feedback into actionable research, collaborating closely with biologists and scientific contractors.

Your role involves scoping, experiment design, and implementation of complex AI-powered systems. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in ML/AI, experience with training and evaluation data pipelines, and fluency in Python.