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Senior Backend Engineer

London, UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and operate core backend systems for Curie, an AI platform that unites AI-automated hardware engineering with AI-designed material science to create critical hardware for AI data centers.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Platform)

Builds

Core backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure connecting AI models to scientific tools for hardware and material science applications.

Domain

AI-driven industrial hardware, advanced materials science, and data center infrastructure.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Backend system design, API development, data pipeline engineering, event-driven architecture, database management (relational/graph), cloud infrastructure, distributed system debugging, system observability, code quality and testing.

Preferred skills

AI/ML environment experience, knowledge graph expertise, infrastructure-as-code, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines.

Technologies

Python, Go, Rust, Java/Kotlin, graph databases, message queues, caching layers, Kubernetes, Docker.

Responsibilities

Design and implement APIs, services, and data pipelines for the Curie platform; build integrations between AI models and scientific tools; own the full lifecycle of backend features from design to deployment; write well-tested, maintainable code; improve system observability and performance; collaborate with ML researchers and domain experts to translate needs into robust solutions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities.

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