Research Engineer - AI for Scientific Discovery

Uk Dri; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance (27 days)

Hybrid working

Private medical cover

Group Life Assurance

Income Protection & Critical Illness

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Job summary

UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) invites a technical leader to design and build software that maps scientific questions, claims, and evidence across Alzheimer’s research. You will lead ingestion pipelines, create inspectable graphs, and connect publications with datasets to enable collaboration and reproducible science.

You will join as a founding member of our AI initiative, shaping Lab Brains and scientific workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to deliver useful software and learn required languages and tools.
• Good engineering practices: version control, code reviews, tests, CI, documentation, packaging, dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Build a practical representation of scientific questions, evidence, and uncertainty with traceable sources.
• Develop ingestion, extraction, reconciliation and update pipelines for a scientific corpus.
• Create views to reveal agreement or disagreement without treating missing evidence as evidence against a claim.
• Lead the creation of an Alzheimer outcome map with scientists and collaborators.
• Connect lab findings to datasets and developing research to enable collaborations and identify bottlenecks.
• Ensure reproducibility and transparent decision dossiers with accountable owners.

Skills

Programming ability

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Knowledge graphs

Discourse graphs

Open science

Open collaboration

Leadership

Alzheimer's research familiarity

Tools

GitHub

Job description

UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) invites a technical leader to design and build software that maps scientific questions, claims, and evidence across Alzheimer’s research. You will lead ingestion pipelines, create inspectable graphs, and connect publications with datasets to enable collaboration and reproducible science.

You will join as a founding member of our AI initiative, shaping Lab Brains and scientific workflows.