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Research Engineer

London, UK💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-22 → 2026-08-07

Core

Research Engineer executes research projects for agentic AI software automating bioanalysis workflows, turning product feedback into shipped results by formulating problems, designing experiments, and interpreting results.

Role type

Research Engineer (Agentic AI & Bioanalysis)

Builds

Agentic AI systems for bioanalysis workflows, evaluation infrastructure, and research agent stacks

Domain

Life Sciences (Bioanalysis) + Artificial Intelligence (Agentic Systems)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM-powered system development, agent architectures, evaluation and benchmarking, model training and fine-tuning, Python engineering, experimental design and rigor, data pipeline construction

Preferred skills

Life-science domain knowledge, post-training experience on LLMs, peer-reviewed publications, open source contributions

Technologies

Python, LLMs, agent systems, evaluation harnesses

Responsibilities

Scoping and implementing research projects, defining system performance metrics, building evaluation infrastructure, developing research agent stack components, fine-tuning open models, building reproducible training and evaluation data pipelines, tracking frontier lab developments

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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