Software Engineer (Full Stack, Machine Learning)

Darktrace; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cybersecurity AI is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join their Innovation team in Cambridge. The role involves rapid prototyping, collaborating with diverse teams, and working with cutting-edge technologies in a hybrid environment. Ideal candidates will have strong programming skills and a creative mindset to drive innovative solutions.

Benefits

23 days’ holiday + all public holidays

Additional day off for your birthday

Private medical insurance

Life insurance of 4 times your base salary

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Enhanced family leave

Confidential Employee Assistance Program

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of more than one programming language.
• Experience with development that considers all parts of the stack.
• Experience fine tuning models and deploying them to production.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototyping and iterating on new projects.
• Collaborating with a cross-functional team to make key decisions.
• Curating datasets and working with ML concepts.

Skills

Problem Solving

Creative Thinking

Communication

Tools

Python

Rust

C++

Linux

AWS

PyTorch

Job description

Software Engineer (Full Stack, Machine Learning)

Cambridge

Darktrace has more than 2,500 employees located globally. Founded by mathematicians and cyber defence experts in 2013, Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security AI, delivering complete AI-powered solutions in its mission to free the world of cyber disruption.

For over a decade, Darktrace has pioneered a proactive, AI-native approach to security. Our roots lie deep in innovation. The Darktrace AI Research Centre based in Cambridge, UK, has conducted research establishing new thresholds in cybersecurity, with technology innovations backed by over 200 patents and pending applications.

Today, Darktrace is a global leader in cybersecurity AI, delivering the essential cybersecurity platform to protect organisations today and for an ever-changing future.

What will I be doing:

Our software engineers work across a wide variety of projects and with a diverse toolset, as a Full Stack Software Engineer for the Innovation team you will be responsible for rapidly prototyping and iterating on new projects in a fast-moving environment. You will be collaborating within a cross-functional team to make key decisions about the projects we are working on. Creativity in approach is essential to drive innovative ideas and solutions to problems.

This is a hybrid role, with a compulsory attendance of 2 days a week in the Cambridge office.

You will own the prototyping and development of new and innovative ideas to further improve Darktrace’s services and offerings while balancing creativity, logical thinking and time constraints to implement blue-sky ideas. You'll find yourself collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, project co-ordinators and technical strategists to create cutting-edge projects and optimising solutions to improve both speed and scale. This role involves working with a wide range of infrastructures, languages and technologies such as Linux, Windows, AWS, Python, Rust, Node, PyTorch and you will be driven to learn more as required.

In this machine learning focused role you will also be curating datasets and working with ML concepts and associated libraries, such as Pytorch.

What experience do I need:

We welcome applications from engineers with strong problem-solving and creative thinking skills as well as excellent communication and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment. You will be an independent thinker with a startup mindset. Technology-wise, you will be strong in at least one of Python, Rust, C++ with Linux operating system experience and experience fine tuning models and deploying them to production.

• Strong knowledge of more than one programming language,
• Experience with development that considers all parts of the stack (storage, API, services, infrastructure, UI, etc),
• Experience developing software for Windows or MacOS,
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

Benefits we offer:

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service,
• Additional day off for your birthday,
• Private medical insurance which covers you, your cohabiting partner and children,
• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary,
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme,
• Enhanced family leave,
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program,
• Cycle to work scheme.

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