Title : Research Development Software Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK- 50 % on site
End date: 30th June 26 (12 months intent)
Location: A minimum of 50% per week is expected onsite rising to 60% at some point in the future.
Required
* Strong software engineering skills in Python, with demonstrable experience building maintainable, well-tested, and production-quality systems, together with strong engineering hygiene practices including testing, code review, and documentation.
* Experience building and maintaining APIs, backend services, and web applications using frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.
* Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment of Azure-hosted or similar cloud services.
* Experience designing and building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage at reasonable scale.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with evolving requirements, translate research goals into practical technical solutions, and debug complex systems.
* Experience with frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript.
* Demonstrated ability to work in environments with high uncertainty, e.g., completed PhD or substantial R&D or startup experience.
This focuses more on the engineering aspects than before:
* Shifted emphasis from evaluation/research to platform engineering, APIs, data pipelines, deployment, and operational reliability
* Added CI/CD, monitoring, containerisation, and deployment as explicit responsibilities
* Moved ML/evaluation experience from required to preferred
* Made Python engineering skills the lead qualification rather than PhD
* Added API/backend frameworks and cloud infrastructure as required experience
* Reduced references to human studies and community evaluation workflows