Senior Software Engineer Scientific Data Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Ellison Institute, LLC; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days leave + 8 holidays + 3 days

Pension 7.5%

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Employee discounts

Electric car scheme

Cycle to Work

Neurodiversity support

Coaching & Therapy

Job summary

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) seeks an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our SciComp team. You will build robust, scalable software systems powering EIT’s scientific initiatives and ensure the stack is reliable, modular, and engineered to the highest standards.

You will design services and data pipelines, integrate ML inference, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary experts to deliver high-quality software in a hybrid work setting across Oxford and London locations.

Qualifications

• Master's level in Computer Science or related technical discipline with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proven success in building and deploying scalable distributed systems in production.
• Experience designing scalable data infrastructure and APIs (REST/gRPC).
• Track record of CI/CD implementation and reproducible workflows.
• Excellent communication of design choices to multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust services powering scientific applications and products.
• Bridge diverse components, integrating ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines.
• Own the full production path—from architectural design and coding to testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, AI Scientists and Domain Experts.
• Champion software engineering best practices across EIT for code quality, security and transparency.

Skills

MSc in CS

Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

API design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MSc in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Ray

Spark

GitOps

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Job description

Join us at EIT:

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology


• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture


• Climate Change & Managing CO₂


• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society.

Explore more at www.eit.org.

Your Role:

At EIT we are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our SciComp team. In this role you will build robust, scalable software systems that power EIT’s scientific initiatives and contribute to the full software lifecycle, ensuring our technology stack is reliable, modular, and built to the highest engineering standards.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design and build robust services(APIs,CLI toolsand software modules)that power scientific applications and products.


• Bridge diverse components, integrating ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines into cohesive systems, while ensuring 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 practicesacross EIT,such asmaintaininghighstandardsof code quality, system security, and transparency.

Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• MSc or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.


• Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, with required proficiency in Python, including proven success in implementing and deploying robust, scalable distributed systems in production.


• Demonstrated experience designing, managing, and orchestrating complex systems involving scalable data infrastructure, hardware interfaces, and machine learning models. Expertise in defining and exposing functionality via clean, well-documented APIs (e.g., REST, gRPC).


• Proven experience implementing and managing robust CI/CD pipelines and reproducible development workflows.


• Strong collaborator able to clearly communicate system design, architecture decisions, and software engineering practices to multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience leveraging Kubernetes for application deployment, and familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Ray, Spark), or specialised batch schedulers/resource managers (e.g., Slurm, Volcano, Kueue).


• Demonstratedexpertisewith specialised serving engines (e.g.,vLLM,SGLang) or techniques for deploying models in resource-constrained or high-throughput environments.


• Familiarity withGitOpsand CI/CD (e.g.,ArgoCD,GitHubActions).


• Experience managing and deploying production systems across diverse environments, including cloud, on-premises clusters, and edge devices.


• Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic R&D settings, demonstrating high autonomy necessary to translate scientific objectives into high-quality software.

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus


• Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.


• Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%


• Life Assurance.


• Income Protection


• Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan


• Employee discounts


• Electric car scheme


• Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme


• Cycle to Work Scheme


• Family Planning


• Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments


• Coaching & Therapy services

Working Together – What It Involves:

• You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.


• You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford/London(or be willing to relocate).


• The SciComp team work to a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office, 2x in our Oxford Office and 1x in our London office. You must be able to commit to this should you be successfully appointed.