Senior Software Engineer, SciComp Systems (AI/ML)

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension 7.5%

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

Life Insurance

Job summary

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join its SciComp team. You will design and build robust services powering EIT's scientific initiatives, bridging ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines while ensuring high availability and scalable architectures.

You will own the full production path—from architecture through deployment—collaborating with Data Engineers, AI Scientists and domain experts to uphold top-tier

Qualifications

• MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, with proficiency in Python and deploying robust distributed systems in production.
• Experience designing and managing complex systems with scalable data infrastructure, hardware interfaces, and ML models; APIs (REST, gRPC).
• Proven experience implementing and managing robust CI/CD pipelines and reproducible development workflows.
• Strong collaboration and ability to communicate system design and software practices to multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust services (APIs, CLI tools and software modules) that power scientific applications and products
• Bridge diverse components, integrating ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines into cohesive systems with high availability and low latency
• Own the full production path—from architectural design and coding to automated testing, benchmarking, deployment, and observability
• Collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team of Data Engineers, AI Scientists, Software Engineers and Domain Experts
• Champion software engineering best practices across EIT, such as maintaining high standards of code quality, system security, and transparency

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

API design (REST/gRPC)

CI/CD pipelines

Collaboration

Education

MSc or equivalent in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Ray

Spark

Slurm

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join its SciComp team. You will design and build robust services powering EIT's scientific initiatives, bridging ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines while ensuring high availability and scalable architectures.

You will own the full production path—from architecture through deployment—collaborating with Data Engineers, AI Scientists and domain experts to uphold top-tier