Product Engineer

Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford

Product Engineer working on a platform at the intersection of AI, automation, and frontier science. Engaging in scientific workflows that require software engineering and product development expertise.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeOxford • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**Job Responsibilities**
- Own features end-to-end — from a rough product hypothesis to a shipped, instrumented experience scientists rely on daily.
- Work across the application layer — frontend state, API contracts, real-time data flows — making sound calls on systems that are already in use.
- Ramp quickly into live systems and make them better — building new features and surfaces while strengthening what's already there.
- Coordinate across the teams whose work feeds this surface — Machine Learning, AI Research, Data Engineering, and Platform — communicating proactively and driving clarity where requirements are still forming.
- Turn loosely-specified problems into shippable scope: prototype, get it in front of real users, iterate.
- Hold the line on reliability and user experience — these are scientific workflows where reproducibility and provenance matter.

Requirements

What you’ll need

**What We're Looking For**
- 5+ years of product / software engineering experience
- Strong track record in a fast-moving environment — you've shipped real products, taken ownership without being asked, and know what good looks like. You bring an entrepreneurial mindset.
- A full-stack engineer with frontend as your primary surface. You're confident with TypeScript/JavaScript and React (or similar) and comfortable owning the whole stack — APIs, data flows, and the systems beneath.
- Strong product sense — you make and explain trade-offs between technical and UX considerations.
- A proactive communicator who manages dependencies across teams and surfaces issues early.
- Genuinely drawn to autonomous labs and scientific automation, and curious about the people you're building for.
**Nice to Have**
Not strictly required - any of these is a meaningful plus:
- **A strong plus:** prior experience building software in or close to a scientific environment — alongside scientists, in pharmaceutical companies, biotech, or research/clinical lab settings.
- Familiarity with instrument APIs, lab protocols, and the data-quality expectations of scientific workflows.
- Experience building AI/ML-powered product features, or working closely with ML teams to bring models into a product.
- Experience with human-in-the-loop or human–machine interaction products.

Benefits

Comp & perks

**We offer the following salary and benefits:**
Enhanced holiday pay
Pension
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Private Medical Insurance
Hospital Cash Plan
Therapy Services
Perk Box
Electric Car Scheme
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**Why work for EIT:**
At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect, and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact!

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptJavaScriptReactAPI developmentdata flowsfull-stack engineeringprototypingscientific workflowsAI/ML product featureshuman-in-the-loop

Soft Skills

proactive communicationownershipentrepreneurial mindsetproduct sensedependency managementiterative developmentclarity in requirementsuser experience focuscollaborationcuriosity