Senior AI Platform Engineer

at  Exscientia

ABOUT US

Exscientia is an AI-driven precision medicine company committed to discovering, designing and developing the best possible drugs in the fastest and most effective manner. Exscientia developed the first-ever functional precision oncology platform to successfully guide treatment selection and improve patient outcomes in a prospective interventional clinical study, as well as to progress AI-designed small molecules into the clinical setting.
Our internal pipeline is focused on leveraging our precision medicine platform in oncology, while our partnered pipeline broadens our approach to other therapeutic areas. By pioneering a new approach to medicine creation, we believe the best ideas of science can rapidly become the best medicines for patients.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• 4+ years of overall experience as a Platform Engineer working on enterprise-level customer-facing projects, with experience leading projects or leading solutions to problems.
• Within that, 3+ years of experience in containerisation (Docker) and high proficiency in cloud computing platforms, particularly AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, etc).
• Experience with automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, Argo, etc).
• Knowledge of best practices for software development, testing, CI/CD, and DevOps principles.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, TypeScript and knowledge of frameworks such as scikit-learn, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in building and managing AI/ML platform infrastructure in a production environment.
• Problem-solving skills, and a willingness to challenge and be challenged in technical discussions.
• Ability to understand tools used by data scientists, and experience with software development and test automation.

We’re seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to contribute to our mission to develop better medicines, faster, to people around the world through building and supporting systems that will accelerate and improve the process for drug discovery. To deliver this mission, you will help to maintain, develop, and enhance our engineering processes for deploying and maintaining machine learning models in production.
You will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of precision medicine, utilising and enhancing your software engineering skills by developing cutting edge, cloud native tools which will be used by a variety of customers for trailblazing research. This would involve designing and implementing evolutions of our state-of-the-art AI platform using the latest, most advanced tools and building best-in-class automation processes.
Please note this is a hybrid role and occasional travel is required to our offices in either Oxford, UK or Dundee, UK (approximately 5 days per month), with flexibility to work from home in the UK the remaining time. We are a flexible working organisation and we’re willing to consider other options which would provide similar contact time with the team.