Research Engineer

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 visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to 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 for lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.

Your Role: 
We are looking for Research Engineers who will work with large scale   datasets from different modalities, including biomolecular data, such as proteins and DNA, 2D and 3D images or graph-structured data. You will design and implement advanced ML architectures and workflows encompassing multimodal generative models and physics-based modelling. 

Your Responsibilities 

• Design and implement advanced ML architectures 

• Develop robust model evaluation pipelines. 

• Optimize model architectures for performance and reliability. 

• Drive best practices in code quality, reproducibility, and collaboration. 

• Build and maintain large-scale ML systems that process biomolecule datasets. 

• Work with domain specialists to incorporate wet lab data and HPC simulations. 

• Help to build and maintain large-scale generative models of molecular data. 

Requirements

Qualifications 

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, or Materials Science with a strong ML focus. 

• Hands-on experience in GPU-based computing, HPC integrations, and distributed system architectures. 

• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch) and scientific software (e.g., molecular simulation). 

• Strong understanding of data modeling and pipeline optimization for large-scale experiments. 

• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex concepts clearly. 

Team Leadership & People Management
(Relevant for roles with people leadership responsibilities)

• Lead with empathy, curiosity, and clarity, modelling the behaviours that help others do their best work.
• Set clear goals, ways of working, and measures of success that create alignment while protecting autonomy and creativity.
• Invest in people’s growth and wellbeing through regular feedback, coaching, and opportunities to stretch and learn.
• Create an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are welcomed, debate is constructive, and people feel safe to challenge ideas.
• Make fair, thoughtful decisions around work allocation, recognition, hiring, and performance, using consistent and bias-aware approaches aligned with EIT's values and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments.

Benefits

We offer the following salary and benefits:

Enhanced holiday pay

Pension

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Private Medical Insurance

Hospital Cash Plan

Therapy Services

Perk Box

Electric Car Scheme

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Working Together – What It Involves:

·       You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.

·       You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford.

*NB: the above are both optional based on the role being recruited for