CareerPlan
Oxford, England, United KingdomFull-time2026-11-06 → 2026-11-12

Core

Build AI agents and multi-step workflows to help scientists plan, execute, and review research in protein design and enzyme engineering.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (Agentic Workflows)

Builds

AI agents, agent skills, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks for scientific research

Domain

Life Sciences / Computational Biology / AI Agents

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

multi-step agentic workflows, tool integrations (MCP), API development, automated testing, asynchronous execution handling, failure analysis, evaluation-driven iteration, domain expert collaboration

Preferred skills

protein design, enzyme engineering, computational biology, molecular modelling, literature retrieval, workflow engines, cloud/HPC compute

Technologies

MCP, APIs, version control, evaluation tooling

Responsibilities

Translate scientific objectives into agent instructions and tool inputs; build agent workflows for evidence retrieval and design proposal; integrate scientific tools and models; connect workflows to data storage and compute; implement candidate generation and ranking; investigate execution failures and improve agent behavior; ensure reproducibility of results.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC