Research Development Software Engineer

Title : Research Development Software Engineer Location: Cambridge, UK- 50 % on site End date: 30th June 26 (12 months intent) Location: A minimum of 50% per week is expected onsite rising to 60% at some point in the future. Required * Strong software engineering skills in Python, with demonstrable experience building maintainable, well-tested, and production-quality systems, together with strong engineering hygiene practices including testing, code review, and documentation. * Experience building and maintaining APIs, backend services, and web applications using frameworks such as FastAPI or Django. * Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment of Azure-hosted or similar cloud services. * Experience designing and building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage at reasonable scale. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with evolving requirements, translate research goals into practical technical solutions, and debug complex systems. * Experience with frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript. * Demonstrated ability to work in environments with high uncertainty, e.g., completed PhD or substantial R&D or startup experience. This focuses more on the engineering aspects than before: * Shifted emphasis from evaluation/research to platform engineering, APIs, data pipelines, deployment, and operational reliability * Added CI/CD, monitoring, containerisation, and deployment as explicit responsibilities * Moved ML/evaluation experience from required to preferred * Made Python engineering skills the lead qualification rather than PhD * Added API/backend frameworks and cloud infrastructure as required experience * Reduced references to human studies and community evaluation workflows