About EIT Oxford

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) works to develop and deploy advanced technology in pursuit of solving some of humanity’s most challenging and enduring problems. Guided by world-leading scientists and entrepreneurs, EIT seeks to accelerate innovation by driving scientific and technological advancements across four humane endeavours: health and medical science, food security and sustainable agriculture, climate change and clean energy, and government innovation and the era of artificial intelligence.

Please visit eit.org for more details.

Our Culture

At the Ellison Institute, we believe that an inclusive, collaborative team atmosphere is just as important to our mission as our scientific aims and methods.

We strive to build a supportive environment where everyone feels confident taking creative risks toward innovation. We value emotional intelligence and communicating with empathy and respect for others.

We foster a team that is curious, has a deep sense of commitment, responsibility, and the resilience needed to achieve excellence.

About the AI Capability

We are a team of AI researchers, Applied AI scientists, data and software engineers within EIT. We work across all the humane endeavours, supported by world-class data platforms and large-scale compute.

AI is at the heart of how EIT tackles humanity's most pressing and enduring challenges. Our mission is to harness state-of-the-art statistical machine learning to 10x the impact of EIT’s programmes and discover novel AI approaches that lead to 100x impact in the future.

To do this, we will unite:

1. The expertise of EIT’s multi-disciplinary scientists and our full stack machine learning teams, working on endeavours

2. World-renowned AI scientists across the University of Oxford, discovering breakthroughs in foundational machine learning research

3. The brilliance of the future leaders, the brightest graduate students from across the world, funded by the Ellison Scholars network

The Role

As the Data Engineer, you will drive the deployment of a data platform which will underpin the development of cutting-edge AI at EIT.

You will be responsible for components of the data infrastructure and pipeline development and will play a crucial role in the architecting scalable data systems that power our AI models and products.

This role requires technical expertise in scaling data processing systems for high performance AI applications and the ability to partner and collaborate with a diverse of teams including scientists, innovators, operations and researchers from different fields.

Challenges you will own:

• Design and implement components of a robust, scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
• Lead the development of data processing systems using cloud technologies
• Optimize data storage and retrieval for high-performance AI applications
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to support model development and deployment
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance our data capabilities
• Partner and collaborate with a diverse set of teams incl. science, research, product, business development and operations

Who we are looking for:

• Significant experience in data engineering at scale (5+ years)
• Strong knowledge of data management tools and technologies including ETL frameworks, database engines, and file and object stores
• Experience building secure/scalable platforms/products on cloud
• Experience partnering with research and product teams
• Strong software engineering experience with software design / architecture skills
• Extensive enterprise programming experience writing production code using any mainstream programming languages, e.g. Python
• Experience with data modelling, ETL processes, and data warehousing
• Familiarity with ML/AI workflows and data requirements

What we can offer you:

• Mission-Driven Impact: EIT’s ambitious, multi-decade programs are all oriented to improving society and people’s lives.
• Founding Team Experience: A rare opportunity to shape and lead the AI Capability team within EIT Oxford, from the ground up.
• Growth Opportunities: a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, learning every day alongside the best and brightest minds in AI and technology.
• Collaborative Culture: do your best work in a friendly, collaborative, creative, and respectful environment of solution-oriented innovators.
• Cutting-edge technology: state-of-the-art resources, enabling you to push the boundaries of AI research and development fast and ethically.
• Hybrid Working Policy: balances in-office collaboration to fuel innovation and culture with remote work to support your personal and family needs. (Expectation of 2 days a week onsite in Oxford)
• Competitive Package: compensation and benefits that recognises your expertise and contributions.

Join us!

At EIT, we value a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. We are seeking individuals who share our optimism for the future and are ready to join a team of innovators to build a better tomorrow for us all.