Within EIT’s AI and Robotics team, we believe powerful AI and increasingly capable robotics will meaningfully accelerate science discovery. We are building a platform to empower scientists to move from a question, to a designed experiment, to a result on the bench—without having to do the plumbing themselves. To begin with, you'd be building for EIT's own scientists, in the same institute. They're a short walk from your desk, not behind an account manager or a research panel. You become the technical anchor for how AI models reach the scientists who need them — the person who owns that seam and establishes the technical approach. Build and operate the technical foundations for agentic systems, including orchestration, tool interfaces, state management, evaluation, observability and failure recovery. ~ Partner with product, data and research to shape the roadmap and ship at speed in an emerging category where the most impactful problems remain unsolved. You’ve built and shippedsystems from scratchas acore engineer and independent contributor or have created something new and standalone inside a larger organisation. You can turn an open-ended problem into a clear technical strategy and working software. ~ You’ve built agentic AI products, not just used them.




You can make sound decisions about APIs, data models, testing, deployment, observability and failure recovery. ~ You’ve built policy-aware systems with durable audit trails.
You are comfortable setting technical direction and making trade-offs between what is technically elegant and what usersneed for adoption. Any of these is a meaningful plus: ~ A strong plus:direct life-science or lab experience– for example inprotein design, computational biology, bioinformatics, or building tools alongside bench scientists. ~ Building the internal tooling and standards that let ateamwork with coding agents well-not just doing it yourself. ~ Scientific visualisation-3D molecular structure, large result sets, comparison and triage interfaces. ~ Experience as an engineering lead or manager who has chosen to come back to building. Enhanced holiday pay Pension Life Assurance Private Medical Insurance Electric Car Scheme -
- Why work for EIT: We are building a supportive setting where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence.

📌 Software Engineer (Oxford)
🏢 Ellison Institute of Technology
📍 Oxford