Senior AI Platform Engineer

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.

The Role

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.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Develop cutting edge, cloud native tools which are used by a variety of customers including internal and external researchers.
• Work at the forefront of precision medicine, using your software development skills to allow our in-house ML pipeline to shine.
• Take the lead on solving highly impactful problems and drive design decisions, taking an active role in pushing projects forward.
• Gain new knowledge of the latest novel technologies and share your expertise with others.
• Work in a collaborative and supportive agile team environment, working with a diverse range of colleagues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and DevOps engineers, to build and deploy AI/ML models and applications.