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senior machine learning scientist

Flagship Pioneering, Inc.

<div>Position Summary:

We are looking for a Machine Learning Scientist to build AI and machine learning systems that turn complex biological data into actionable scientific insight. You will work at the intersection of ML, genomics, causal biology, and target discovery. The role includes building models, agentic AI workflows, systems that help automate analysis, reasoning, and decision support, and AI assisted tools that help connect genotype, cell state, perturbation, phenotype, and disease mechanism. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys writing clear, reliable code, uses modern AI tools to move faster, and wants their work to shape real biological and therapeutic decisions.

Responsibilities:
<ul>
<li>Build ML models for genomic, single-cell, perturbation, and phenotype data.</li>
<li>Develop agentic AI workflows that help scientists analyze data, test hypotheses, and make better decisions.</li>
<li>Use AI coding tools to accelerate development while keeping code reliable, readable, tested, and reproducible.</li>
<li>Train and fine tune foundation models, language models, and representation learning methods for target discovery.</li>
<li>Model relationships between genotype, cell state, perturbation response, causal biology, and disease.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with computational scientists, experimental biologists, software engineers, and target discovery teams.</li>
<li>Communicate results clearly, including model assumptions, limitations, and next steps.</li>
</ul>
Qualifications:

You do not need to meet every item to apply. Strong candidates may come from academia, industry, open-source work, or hands-on research.
<ul>
<li>PhD, Master's degree, or equivalent experience in machine learning, computer science, computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics, statistics, engineering, or a related field.</li>
<li>Strong Python coding skills and experience building practical Deep Learning ML systems.</li>
<li>Experience using AI coding tools, coding assistants, LLM-based workflows, or agentic development tools.</li>
<li>Experience training, evaluating, or applying ML models to complex real-world data.</li>
<li>Depth in one or more of: biomedical foundation models, agentic AI, Perturb-seq, single-cell genomics, genotype&ndash;phenotype modeling, causal inference, perturbation modeling, or large-scale biological datasets.</li>
<li>Evidence of technical depth through papers, thesis work, open-source projects, industry projects, or substantial hands-on applied research.</li>
</ul>
Values and Behaviors:
<ul>
<li>Encourage respectful disagreement and cultivate open-minded, ego-free interactions to continuously push each other towards excellence</li>
<li>Seek out diverse perspectives; practice active listening and genuine curiosity to ensure all contributions are valued, regardless of source</li>
<li>Recognize the impact of your behavior, language and attitudes, and strive for balanced, meaningful exchanges that enhance mutual growth and understanding in all interactions</li>
<li>Use a company-first mindset to guide decision-making; prioritize team over individual success</li>
<li>Take calculated risks and challenge convention in the quest for exceptional outcomes</li>
</ul>
About Quotient:

Quotient Therapeutics is a privately-held, early stage company developing breakthrough medicines informed by natural somatic genetic diversity present in patients. Through our work in somatic genomics, we are forging a new status quo for biopharma research and development across a broad pipeline of internal and partnered programs.

The company was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovative enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA), Generate Biomedicines, Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Tessera Therapeutics, Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Indigo Agriculture, Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS).

Quotient Therapeutics and Flagship Pioneering are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment &amp; Staffing Agencies:

Quotient Therapeutics (&quot;Quotient&quot;) and Flagship Pioneering (&quot;FSP&quot;) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Quotient, FSP or their employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering's internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.<div> 

Privacy Notice for Applicants: When you apply for a role at Flagship Pioneering or one of its portfolio companies, we collect and use personal information you provide (such as your name, contact details, work history, and application materials) to evaluate your application, communicate with you, and comply with legal obligations. Your application data is processed through Greenhouse, our applicant tracking system, and may also be reviewed using AI-assisted screening tools. We do not sell your personal information. California residents have rights under the CCPA/CPRA including to know, delete, and opt out of the sharing of their personal information. If you are located in the EU or UK, we process your data under GDPR and you have rights to access, rectify, and erase your data. To exercise your rights or for questions, contact privacy@flagshippioneering.com.</div></div>

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

CommonAI CIC

<div>
 CommonAI CIC is a non-profit membership organisation, founded on a belief in collaborative engineering for the safe and responsible development of foundational AI technologies. A place where AI startups, enterprises large and small, public sector bodies and academia can share resources and knowledge, to codevelop and grow businesses, fast.
 
 
 We are led by experienced founders, investors and engineers who believe that collaborative engineering drives faster AI innovation and are backed by a mix of UK Government and private funding in order to design, build and deploy innovative AI systems.
 
 
 
 The Opportunity
 
 
 
 We're seeking a highly skilled foundation model engineer who has experience of building, training, evaluating, and deploying LLMs or multimodal models end-to-end.
 
 
 We are currently building an AI lab with multiple GPU clusters for testing new hardware and software technologies to accelerate machine learning and inference. This exciting role will primarily focus on model development, data pipelines and system performance. You'll work across the full AI lifecycle, from experimentation to scalable deployment, with a strong emphasis on technical depth and rigour.
 
 
 
 What You'll Do
 
 
 
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 Design and implement end-to-end LLM training pipelines
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 Source and, where appropriate, preprocess datasets for training and evaluation
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 Fine-tune and optimise open weight models (LLMs, vision, or traditional ML)
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 Build evaluation frameworks and define performance metrics
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 Develop and maintain data pipelines and training workflows
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 Analyse training pipelines and optimise them for latency, cost, and scalability
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 Implement monitoring, logging, and feedback loops for continuous improvement
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 Experiment with modern AI tooling and services to investigate how they can be leveraged
 
 
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 Requirements
 
 
 
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 Proven experience training and fine-tuning LLMs or multimodal models (not just using APIs)
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 Solid understanding of:
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 Model evaluation and validation
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 Overfitting, bias/variance tradeoffs
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 Data quality and feature engineering
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 Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow)
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 Experience building and maintaining ML pipelines in production
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 Familiarity with GPU usage and optimisation
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 Ability to debug and improve model performance systematically
 
 
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 We also value:
 
 
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 Knowledge of distributed training or large-scale data processing
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 Experience with MLOps tools (CI/CD for ML, experiment tracking, model versioning)
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 Background in applied research or publishing
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 Familiarity with retrieval systems, embeddings, or ranking models
 
 
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 </ul>
 Ideally you will have a maths or computer science research background with a focus on developing new algorithms or techniques for training and deploying AI models.
 
 
 You may also have been working in industry in a large organisation or start-up with an emphasis on developing and deploying cutting edge machine learning.
 
 
 When applying, please include:
 
 
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 Links to relevant projects, papers, or GitHub repositories
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 A brief description of a model/system you trained and deployed end-to-end
 
 
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 Benefits
 
 
 
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 A collaborative and supportive work environment
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 The opportunity to have a high impact in a growing organisation
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 Competitive salary package and pension
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 Professional development opportunities
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 Networking opportunities with influential people from across the tech sector and academia
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 A vibrant office environment located a few minutes' walk away from Cambridge train station
 
 
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 CommonAI CIC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace.
 
</div>

Foundation Model Engineer

Graphcore

<div>
 
 About Graphcore
 
 
 
 Graphcore is one of the world&rsquo;s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.
 
 
 It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.
 
 
 As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world&rsquo;s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
 
 
 Graphcore&rsquo;s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.
 
 
 
 Job Summary
 
 
 
 Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems.
 
 
 
 The Team
 
 
 
 The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible.
 
 
 
 Responsibilities And Duties
 
 
 
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 Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support the software build and release process
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 Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker
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 Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
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 Support the technical development of junior and graduate engineer
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 Embody a strong engineering discipline for high reliability and minimal toil
 
 
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 Candidate Profile
 
 
 
 
 Essential
 
 
 
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 Knowledge of Python/Go/C++ (or similar language)
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 Experience deploying services in the cloud (AWS preferred)
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 Deep understanding of Linux environments
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 Native user of CI/CD for production deployments
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 Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
 
 
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 Desirable
 
 
 
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 Experience using Kubernetes (k8s) or OpenStack
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 Experience with GitHub Actions
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 Experience with build tools (e.g. CMake)
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 Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus)
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 Experience with Grafana
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 Benefits
 
 
 
 In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we&rsquo;re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
 
 
 
 Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications
 
</div>

Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">About the job</h3>

Help prove the ML software stack that future AI systems will depend on. Graphcore is expanding the software systems behind AI compute at datacenter scale. This role focuses on validating a complex machine learning stack before it reaches customers and hardware.You will build the test infrastructure, automation and tooling that engineers trust every day. Your work will help raise reliability, performance and maintainability across frameworks, simulators, emulators and future hardware. You will shape test architecture across large codebases, CI pipelines and representative ML workloads. You will use strong software engineering judgement to turn complex technical goals into scalable validation systems.

This is a role for someone who enjoys depth, ownership and useful engineering. You will make quality easier, faster and more visible for teams building at the edge of AI compute.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
The team and culture</h3>

The ML QA team sits where Graphcore's software components come together. Engineers work across unit tests, integration tests, full model runs, subgraph validation and benchmarking.

Work is organised through focused squads with clear ownership. People are expected to step up, speak openly and improve how the team builds, tests and learns.

Decisions are grounded in evidence from code, data and system behaviour. The team works closely with software teams to identify gaps, improve tooling and move priorities forward quickly.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
What we're looking for</h3>
<ul><li>Strong software design skills, with experience building maintainable systems across large codebases.</li><li>Production Python experience, including testable, reliable code used by other engineers.</li><li>Experience with CI/CD, automated testing and Linux based development workflows.</li><li>Familiarity with C or C++, with confidence reading and debugging low level code.</li><li>Understanding of ML frameworks, workloads or model execution beyond simple API usage.</li><li>Ability to mentor engineers, improve practices and take ownership of complex technical problems.</li></ul>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Benefits</h3>
<ul><li>Unlimited annual leave</li><li>Up to 5% matched pension</li><li>Phantom equity &ndash; share in Graphcore's success</li><li>True flexibility in how and where you work</li><li>Office spaces designed for collaboration</li><li>Free food and an on-site barista</li><li>Health cash plan</li><li>Income protection</li><li>Life assurance</li><li>Along with other benefits you can choose from (private medical insurance, dental plan etc)</li></ul>
We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.

We're an equal opportunity employer and recognise that everyone brings different strengths and perspectives. If you need any adjustments during the interview process, just let us know - we're happy to support you.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Join the team at Graphcore</h3> 

Graphcore is one of the world's leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world's most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.

Graphcore's teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore brings together deep expertise to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful progress in AI compute.

If you want to shape how complex ML software is tested, trusted and improved, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to be part of the journey.</div>

Senior Software Engineer (ML QA)

Speechify

<div>Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world's information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we're doing for audio information. And whatever we're doing seems to be working. We're #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify's product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Collaborate with Speechify's Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK</li>
<li>Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms</li>
<li>Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.</li>
<li>Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time</li>
<li>Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down</li>
<li>Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs</li>
<li>Preferred Tech Stack:
<ul><li>Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)</li>
<li>Prior experience with GCP is a plus</li>
</ul>
</li></ul>What We Offer
<ul><li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.</li>
<li>A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.</li>
<li>An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.</li>
<li>Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.</li>
<li>Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - Cambridge, United Kingdom

<div>The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward.
This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount.

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions</li>
<li>Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app</li>
<li>Work within a dedicated product team</li>
<li>Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap</li>
<li>Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base</li>
<li>Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product</li>
<li>Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience</li>
<li>Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction</li>
<li>Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time</li>
<li>Focus. We're a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down</li>
<li>Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI</li>
</ul>
Technical Requirements:
<ul>
<li>Swift Programming Language</li>
<li>SwiftUI experience</li>
<li>Experience in Multithreading Programming</li>
<li>Working with CI/CD infrastructure</li>
<li>Experience with Fastlane</li>
<li>SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID</li>
<li>Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies</li>
</ul>
What We offer:
<ul>
<li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle</li>
<li>The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry</li>
<li>A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture</li>
<li>Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives</li>
<li>Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</div>

Software Engineer, iOS Core Product - Cambridge, United Kingdom

CMR Surgical

<div>About CMR Surgical
At CMR Surgical, we're revolutionising the future of minimal access surgery with Versius, our next-generation surgical robotic system. We're growing fast, and were on a mission to transform how surgery is delivered globally for the benefit of patients, clinicians, and healthcare systems.
Our valuesAmbitious, Humble, People-Focused, and Fair &amp; Responsible define our approach to innovation, partnership, and growth. If you believe in making a meaningful difference in healthcare and want to be part of a purpose-driven company with bold ambitions, now is the time to join us.
CMR is an exciting and evolving company to be joining right now. Our commitment to our goal of building a world-class medical devices company is underpinned by the ground-breaking innovation of our next generation of surgical robots and a diverse team of talented and supportive individuals.
Were breaking new ground which makes working here exciting, it provides autonomy, opportunity and makes the things you do visible. Come and join us and see what youre capable of.
About the Role
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join CMR Surgical and help us build the data platforms, services, and infrastructure that enable more patients to benefit from minimal access surgery using the Versius Surgical System.
Youll join our Data department, where we work with telemetry streaming from hundreds of devices around the world and build platforms and products that support surgeons and teams across the business. The technical breadth of what we tackle is wide and varied from event-driven data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, microservices, databases, and data warehouses, to digital products, data analysis, and AI models.
We care deeply about outcomes and always keep the real-world impact of our work in mind. Youll be working on systems that genuinely matter, alongside people who value engineering quality, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data and software engineering problems, can take ownership of technical decisions, and wants to help build reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems that make Versius data available for a wide range of use cases across CMR.
This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of 1 day per week in our Cambridge office, plus additional time on-site when needed.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, youll play a key role in designing, building, maintaining, and improving the services and infrastructure that make Versius data available across CMR. Youll work on systems that need to be reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable, while helping other engineers grow and supporting teams across the business to unlock value from data.
You will:<ul><li>
Design, build, and improve data pipelines that help us understand real use of Versius in the hospitals.</li><li>
Develop high-quality software, primarily using Python, to support data processing, cloud services, APIs, and internal platforms.</li><li>
Work with event-driven and streaming data architectures on AWS to make data available with low latency for a wide range of use cases.</li><li>
Take ownership of services and technical areas, helping work progress through the full software development lifecycle from understanding the problem, through design and delivery, to operation and continuous improvement.</li><li>
Contribute to the design and evolution of existing and new systems, making pragmatic technical decisions that balance quality, speed, cost, reliability, and long-term maintainability.</li><li>
Build and operate cloud-native data solutions using AWS services, Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, databases, data lakes, and related technologies.</li><li>
Promote high-quality engineering practices across the team, including clean code, testing, code reviews, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and knowledge sharing.</li><li>
Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across the business, including Product, R&amp;D, Clinical, Commercial, and other engineering teams, to understand real-world needs and translate them into robust technical solutions.</li><li>
Help make data available to support analytics, AI research, product development, operational insight, and a deeper understanding of how our systems are used in the field.</li><li>
Coach, mentor, and support other engineers, helping raise the technical capability of the team through teaching, pairing, feedback, and thoughtful technical leadership.</li></ul>
Wed expect you to be willing to turn your hand to anything within the Data Team that helps the team deliver its objectives.
About You
Youre someone who enjoys solving complex problems, building reliable systems, and working collaboratively to create software and data platforms that make a real difference.
To be successful in this role, youll need to have/be:
<ul><li>Strong software engineering experience, with a proven ability to design, build, operate, and improve data pipelines.</li><li>
Proficient in Python this is our main language and one of our core tools.</li><li>
Experience with event-driven, streaming, or asynchronous architectures, and understands the trade-offs involved in building these systems.</li><li>
Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, and is comfortable working with Infrastructure-as-Code and modern cloud-native engineering practices.</li><li>
Cares about engineering quality, including writing code that is understandable, testable, observable, and built to last.</li><li>
Can communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping to understand needs, explain trade-offs, and gain alignment.</li><li>
Enjoys collaboration and knowledge sharing, and is comfortable coaching, mentoring, or supporting other engineers.</li><li>
Is adaptable and open to working across different types of problems as the team, platform, and products evolve.</li><li>
Is excited by the idea of building software and data platforms that benefit patients and have real-world impact.</li></ul>
Why Join Us?
We offer a competitive salary and a great benefits package including a bonus, pension, healthcare and enhanced global parental leave pay.
Interested? Wed love to hear from you!
This role requires candidates to have eligibility to work within the UK. 

 
Strictly no agencies</div>

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