Senior Software Engineer (Humanities Biggest Challenges)

Senior and Staff Software Engineers | Oxford | ML infrastructure

💻 Senior and Staff Software Engineers (L4-L6)

💷 £90,000-£250,000

🚀 Privately funded by a global, influential figure in partnership with a leading University

📍 Oxford - 2 days a week at a purpose built campus

⚙️ Tech Stack: The right tool for the job (Python, Go, Rust, C++, C#, TypeScript/JavaScript)

Are you ready to build the technology that will accelerate scientific breakthroughs and change the world?

In what will surely be looked back upon as legendary and ground breaking work, we're partnered with a unique organisation harnessing AI to tackle the world's most urgent challenges. They're pushing the boundaries of what's possible in health care, food security, climate change, and government innovation.

Their mission? To ensure cutting-edge research translates into real-world impact.

You'll build high-performance, scalable, and distributed systems that allow scientists and engineers to experiment and deploy at lightning speed-turning complex research into actionable solutions with a single click.

We're looking for exceptional software engineers who thrive on tackling novel challenges in HPC, cloud, distributed systems, AI, developer tooling, and infrastructure. If you're passionate about designing and implementing cutting-edge systems, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Work On:

• Powering AI Innovation - Build the bespoke cloud infrastructure and distributed systems that support satellite data analysis, climate modelling, AI-driven medical research, and more.
• Building scalable R&D Platforms - Create a shared research & development ecosystem that accelerates experimentation, enabling seamless transitions from prototype to production.
• Embedding in High-Impact Projects - Work closely with Data, Applied ML, and Research teams to develop custom storage, networking, and training pipelines.
• Developing Internal Tools & Automation - Drive efficiency with automation that enables researchers to move faster, smarter, and more effectively.

What We're Looking For:

• Strong Computer Science Fundamentals - Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and best practices for clean, efficient code.
• Expertise in Large Distributed Systems - You may be familiar with high-performance computing, cloud-native architectures, and automation.
• Polyglot Mindset - Comfortable using the best tool for the job, whether that's Python, Go, Rust, C++, C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, or others.
• Collaboration & Impact - A team-first mentality with a drive to create highly scalable, production-ready solutions.

Your work will directly contribute to solving some of the biggest challenges of our time. Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.