Research Engineer: Lab Brains & Scientific Workflows

The Methodist Church in Britain; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Private medical cover

Group life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Enhanced leave pay

Pension with employer contributions

Season ticket loan

Hybrid working

Job summary

UK DRI Research Operations Division seeks a Research Engineer to design and deploy Lab Brains, agents and connected tools for dementia research workflows. You will work with researchers and lab staff to turn recurring problems into reproducible software, linking notes, conversations and experimental records with code and data.

The role emphasizes hands-on software development, guidance on best practices, and delivering tools with clear support ownership.

Qualifications

• No degree required if equivalent capability demonstrated.
• Shipping software that others use.
• Experience building LLM apps or automation, including tool integration, evaluation and debugging.
• Experience connecting systems and handling authentication, data access, change management and failures.

Responsibilities

• Develop Lab Brains agents and tools to help labs track history and next actions.
• Collaborate with researchers and lab staff to turn problems into usable software.
• Create workflows linking notebooks, Slack, Linear, and Labstep with code,data and docs.
• Build robust integrations handling permissions, retries and failures with minimal manual records.
• Implement interfaces and controls showing data provenance and sharing scope.
• Release tools across labs with documentation and clear ownership.

Skills

Programming ability

Git & GitHub

Automated testing

CI/CD

Documentation

Tools

Labstep integration

Job description

UK DRI Research Operations Division seeks a Research Engineer to design and deploy Lab Brains, agents and connected tools for dementia research workflows. You will work with researchers and lab staff to turn recurring problems into reproducible software, linking notes, conversations and experimental records with code and data.

The role emphasizes hands-on software development, guidance on best practices, and delivering tools with clear support ownership.