At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas for lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org
Requirements
The Role:
Forward Deployed Data Engineers are a key interface between our core data systems and our research and product engineering projects. As an early member of our rapidly growing team, you’ll work side-by-side with scientists and engineers in bioinformatics, healthcare, robotics, agriculture, and frontier AI. You will disseminate data engineering best practices into the research and applied teams, ensuring that the datasets used for our AI models are accurate, reproducible, versioned-controlled, well-structured, and ready for training. You will help scientists turn raw information from various sources into high-quality resources, ensuring our technical foundations support the next generation of discovery.
This is a hands-on role for engineers who thrive on collaborating directly with researchers, solving problems quickly, and turning complex business logic into scalable, reliable data pipelines while contributing to the broader EIT platform. Successful candidates will be clear, respectful communicators who are comfortable bringing their own expertise into diverse groups.
Day-to-Day, You Might:
What Makes You a Great Fit:
Our Forward Deployed Engineers will have the opportunity to work on diverse projects, and to expand their skillset, but will add particular value when they can match their data engineering expertise with domain knowledge relevant to a project. Does one of these domains fit you?
Health/Clinical Data Engineering:
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Bioinformatics/Genomics Data Engineering:
Benefits
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!