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Research Engineer

The City, Central London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-28 → 2026-08-07

Core

Own the research function to turn product feedback into AI-powered automation tools for bio-analysis workflows, acting as a technical sparring partner for biologists and contractors.

Role type

Research Engineer (AI/ML)

Builds

AI-powered automation tools for bio-analysis workflows

Domain

Life Sciences / AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM system design (prompts, context engineering, agent architectures), evaluation infrastructure (benchmarks, harnesses), model fine-tuning and post-training, Python engineering, experimental design and data curation

Preferred skills

Life science domain knowledge (biology, chemistry, medicine), peer-reviewed publications, open source contributions to scientific/AI tooling

Technologies

Python, LLMs, open models

Responsibilities

Scoping and designing experiments, building evaluation infrastructure, developing the research agent stack, fine-tuning models, building reproducible data pipelines, tracking frontier lab developments

Seniority

Individual Contributor, research-focused

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