Defence & Security Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Job Description

Defence & Security Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

We believe that AI should be transparent and responsible by design, and we’re looking for versatile people who can help us create it.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will join the rapidly growing Engineering team at our University of Oxford machine learning company to help us realise a future where Humans and AI collaborate to solve the world’s most important problems.

Location: Remote (UK) or office-based (incl. mixed),

You’ll share your days with teams of talented software engineers, scientists, designers, and product specialists. Together you will take ideas from concept through to production, making elegant and maintainable solutions to complex data-centric problems. You’ll help build an exciting portfolio of products that will have a real and positive impact on society, the defence of the realm, and the individual lives of people across the globe.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will be at the heart of the engineering effort that enables the delivery of state-of-the-art AI/ML in a diverse range of projects; from signal processing to geospatial data modelling to image processing and high-fidelity simulations of physical systems.

You will work with users on new features, rapidly prototyping, exploring and validating ideas, and designing and developing features for scalable, secure, and observable large distributed systems, both on-premise and in the cloud.

We grow and succeed together by working in collaborative, flexible, and self-organising remote-first teams where your passion for software engineering and product development will allow you to thrive.

Working at Mind Foundry will provide an excellent platform for you to grow, learn, and have a real impact on the important problems in the world by helping us to make our vision a reality.

As part of this role, you will be required to work away at partner locations. This may be for up to 1 week at a time, and we aim for this not to happen more than once every 2 months.

You should be willing and eligible to apply and obtain UK security clearance to Security Check (SC) if not hold an existing clearance.

ABOUT YOU

We understand that no single person can do it all, and we don't expect everyone to be an expert in every aspect of frontend, backend, DevOps and MLOps, but you’ll need to have skills & experience across many levels of a web app stack.

You will have at least two years of commercial software engineering experience, and you will be fluent in at least one high-level programming language. We primarily use JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.

Our core technology stack is React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Python Machine Learning. We’d love for you to have experience in more than one of those, although if you have equivalent experience in different technology stacks and have transferable skills, we’d still love to hear from you.

You will have a degree in a technical discipline such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, etc., or equivalent skills and knowledge.

Ideally, you will have experience working in an iterative Agile environment and an understanding of the DevOps movement and its culture.

At Mind Foundry, you’ll be working with, and learning from, experts in a wide range of technologies and skills. We’d love it if you already have experience in any of the following areas. If you’re already an expert, even better! If not, we can help you pick them up along the way.

• Wider software engineering skills, like scripting, CI/CD, UI/UX, design, databases
• Experience architecting and designing complex software systems for the cloud
• Experience working closely with users, working out what to build and why
• Understanding of Machine Learning, AI, or Data Science, including experience deploying ML in production or commercial applications, especially in Kubeflow
• Familiarity with other technologies in our stack like Java, Protobuf/gRPC, Flask, Redux, AWS
• Experience with modern numeric or big data frameworks, such as Sklearn, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark, Numba, Kafka, Apache Arrow, Parquet

If this sounds like you and what you believe you can achieve, we would love to hear from you!