AI Data Engineer, Francis Crick
£60.7-69.8k
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Biomedical research institute
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Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£60.7-69.8k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent experience) *
- Strong programming skills in Python*
- Solid experience with SQL and data modelling
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) *
- Understanding of machine learning workflows*
- Experience supporting ML pipelines (training, inference, monitoring)
- Experience with CI/CD for data and ML systems*
- Strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, version control, code reviews)
- Experience of project management on key data platform projects
What the job involves
- Reports to: Karen Ambrose
- Working pattern: This is a 1 year Fixed Term position on Crick terms and conditions of employment
- We’re looking for a skilled AI Data Engineer to help shape and scale the data foundations that power our machine learning and AI innovation. Joining the Data Management & Analytics Platform Team, you’ll work at the cutting edge of data engineering, building the platforms and pipelines that enable our data scientists and ML engineers to train, deploy, and monitor models with speed and confidence
- In this role, you’ll transform raw data into production ready AI datasets, optimise data infrastructure for demanding ML workloads, and ensure reliability, governance, and performance across the entire AI lifecycle
- You’ll take the lead on critical AI data infrastructure, ensuring our data is robust, trusted, and ready to support large scale AI ambitions
- Contribute to the design and implementation of end-to-end data pipelines that support AI and ML workflows
- Work with senior engineers to select and implement data storage solutions, processing frameworks, and orchestration tools
- Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines for AI/ML evaluation and use cases
- Prepare, clean, transform, and version datasets for model training and inference
- Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to support model training, evaluation, and deployment
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and monitoring across AI pipelines
- Implement data validation, schema enforcement, and anomaly detection
- Apply best practices for data security, privacy, and compliance
- Full lifecycle development (design, implementation, documentation, testing and ongoing support) of integrations to agreed requirements
Application process
- Closing Date: 21/Apr/2026 23.59 GMT
- Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed
- We reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022 and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.4bn
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Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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