Research Engineer - Tooling & AI Prototyping

Software Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepMind in London, UK is seeking a Research Engineer focused on tool use to advance AI systems. You will write and test production code, participate in design reviews, and help shape scalable engineering workflows.

You will review peers’ work, contribute to docs and tutorials, and triage issues affecting hardware, networks, or services, collaborating with research and engineering teams to turn ideas into reliable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience writing and testing production-grade software for AI/ML systems.
• Familiarity with ML model training and evaluation, and scalable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing sources and impact on systems.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

Machine learning models

Model training

Engineering workflows

Data analysis at scale

Data visualization

Data ingestion pipelines

Large language models

AI agents

Tools

JAX

PyTorch

Job description

DeepMind in London, UK is seeking a Research Engineer focused on tool use to advance AI systems. You will write and test production code, participate in design reviews, and help shape scalable engineering workflows.

You will review peers’ work, contribute to docs and tutorials, and triage issues affecting hardware, networks, or services, collaborating with research and engineering teams to turn ideas into reliable solutions.