Software Lead

Job Summary

Join EIT to lead the team developing software platforms that bring together scientific workflows, AI capabilities, robotics, and laboratory automation.

This role combines team leadership with substantial hands-on engineering. You will set technical direction, organise delivery, and develop your team while personally designing systems, writing production code, and resolving complex integration problems. You will be accountable for the team’s delivery and engineering quality alongside owning significant technical work yourself.

Working with scientists, product teams, hardware engineers, and AI specialists, you will turn emerging requirements and prototypes into reliable, usable platforms. You will bring strong software engineering experience and practical knowledge of agentic AI, including tool use, context management, orchestration, and evaluation.

We welcome experience from scientific software, industrial automation, robotics, AI platforms, and related fields. Previous laboratory automation experience is valuable but is not essential.

You are expected to work in Oxford 4 days a week for this role.