Software Engineer

Owkin; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Friendly and informal working enviro n

International team with high technical

Flexible working options

Experience the world

Time to recharge

Enough time with your family

Prioritize your health

Spaces to house Owkin's collective int

Job summary

Owkin is seeking an experienced engineer to build the Data Transformation Agent (DTA) for our platform. You will own core components, design complex data workflows with Airflow, and ensure smooth deployment within our data platform. You will lead technical decisions and work with researchers to translate requirements into robust, scalable software.

You will join a highly skilled, international team and contribute to cutting-edge AI and biology research in a remote UK/Germany setting.

Qualifications

• BS in software engineering, CS, applied mathematics, or related field.
• Deep Python expertise and knowledge of other languages.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs and Agentic Systems.
• Experience with multi-omics or multi-modal datasets.
• Excellent documentation, testing, deployment, and code optimization skills.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum.
• Solid software architecture knowledge.
• Cloud services (GCP, AWS, Azure) and container deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Linux/Unix-like environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of Owkin’s Data Transformation Agent (DTA) and core platform components.
• Design, implement, and maintain data transformation workflows using Airflow.
• Deploy and integrate the DTA within Owkin's Data Platform infrastructure.
• Enforce robust engineering practices including TDD, deployment QA, and reviews.
• Provide technical leadership on choices and milestones for software packages.
• Collaborate with researchers to gather requirements and remove bottlenecks.

Skills

Python

LLMs & Agents

Multi-omics

Documentation

Agile/Scrum

Software Architecture

Cloud & Containers

Linux/Unix

Education

BS in software engineering, CS, applied mathematics, or related field

Tools

Apache Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

TensorFlow / PyTorch

Job description

Our talented multidisciplinary team has expertise across data science, machine learning, medicine, and biology.

We are a community of diverse people bringing our energy and skills to find the right treatment for every patient. Our culture is expressed through our values of curiosity, care, collaboration, and creativity.

Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology where human researchers alone have failed.
Owkin builds K Pro - an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making. K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity.
K Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the‑art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.

This position is remote and based in the UK or Germany.

About the role:

This is a critical role at the intersection of advanced AI and high‑stakes biology. You will be instrumental in building the core agentic technology that powers Owkin’s Data Transformation Agent (DTA), directly enabling the creation of "ML-ready" multimodal datasets. You will be given the autonomy to drive the technical direction of your projects, choosing the best tools and development path to accomplish your mission. You will be joining a highly skilled, international team with a passion for both cutting‑edge technology and scientific discovery.

In particular, you will:

• Lead Agent Development: Drive the development of Owkin’s Data Transformation Agent (DTA) and actively contribute to the core components and agents of our platform, "K‑Pro."
• Orchestrate Data Workflows: Design, implement, and maintain complex data transformation workflows, leveraging tools like Apache Airflow for robust and scalable orchestration.
• Deployment and Integration: Manage the seamless integration and deployment of the DTA within Owkin's broader Data Platform infrastructure.
• Ensure Code Excellence: Define and enforce robust engineering practices, including Test‑Driven Development (TDD), defining best practices for deployment, QA, and maintaining infrastructure, and performing code reviews to ensure high standards.
• Technical Leadership: Guide key technical choices and tradeoffs, plan the development goals and milestones for software packages, and focus on performance optimization.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Interface directly with internal customers and research engineers to gather requirements and efficiently resolve implementation bottlenecks.

About you

Required qualifications / experience:

• 3+ years of industry experience in a similar role, with a BS in software engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or an associated field.
• Deep Python expertise and familiarity with other programming languages.
• Strong knowledge of LLMs and Agentic Systems principles, or a demonstrable ability and interest in rapidly acquiring this expertise to build multi‑agent software.
• Experience with multi‑omics data (e.g., genomics, proteomics, imaging) or other complex multimodal datasets, including preprocessing and transformation.
• Expertise in documentation, specification, robust testing, continuous deployment, and code optimization.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Solid understanding of software architecture concepts.
• Knowledge of cloud computing services (GCP, AWS, Azure) and container‑based deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Development experience in Linux/Unix‑like environments.

Preferred qualifications/bonus skills:

• Direct experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Experience working with spatial transcriptomics data.
• Knowledge of different technologies for distributed computing, databases, and serialization.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, etc.).
• Knowledge of applied mathematics concepts (signal & image processing, statistics, etc.).
• Contributions to OSS projects.
• Contribution to publications at machine learning conferences and journals (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).

What we offer

• Friendly and informal working environment
• Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds
• Flexible working options
• Experience the world
• Time to recharge
• Enough time with your family
• Prioritize your health
• Spaces to house Owkin's collective intelligence

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