Software Engineer

The Ellison Institute Of Technology (eit); Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel allowance

Bonus

Pension-Employer contrib 7.5%

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

The Ellison Institute Of Technology (EIT) is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the SciComp team in the UK. You will design and build robust services powering scientific applications, integrating ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, and data pipelines while owning the full production path from design to deployment.

You will collaborate with Data Engineers, AI Scientists, and Software Engineers, applying best practices for code quality, security, and observability, and contribute to

Qualifications

• MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Extensive experience as a Software Engineer with Python and distributed systems in production.
• Experience designing, managing, and exposing functionality via clean APIs (REST, gRPC).
• Proven experience implementing and managing robust CI/CD pipelines and reproducible workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust services (APIs, CLI tools, modules) for scientific applications.
• Bridge components: ML inference servers, hardware interfaces, data pipelines; ensure low latency and high availability.
• Own the full production path from architectural design to deployment and observability.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, AI Scientists, Software Engineers, and Domain Experts.
• Champion software engineering best practices across the team, including code quality and security.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

APIs (REST/gRPC)

Cloud & on-prem deployments

GitOps

Communication

Education

MSc in Computer Science or related

Tools

Ray

Spark

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Job description

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.,

• 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, 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 practices across EIT, such as maintaining high standards of code quality, system security, and transparency.
• 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., 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).
• Demonstrated expertise with specialised serving engines (e.g., vLLM, SGLang) or techniques for deploying models in resource-constrained or high-throughput environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps and CI/CD (e.g., ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).
• 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.
• At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO
• 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.
• 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
• 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.