Software Engineer - Research Team

As a Research Engineer on the software side, you will design and harden the codebase, tools and distributed services that let our scientists train and ship frontier-scale models. You do not need prior ML experience; what matters is writing clean, reliable code that scales.

You will join our Platform REs team to build and maintain shared dev-tools, evaluation & data pipelines, training framework, cluster tooling and CI/CD.

Location: Paris / London (hybrid) or remote EU/UK with one hub day per month.

-Master’s in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).

-4 + years building and operating large-scale or distributed systems.

-Strong software-design instincts: modular code, tests, CI/CD, observability.

-Fluency in Python plus one systems language (C++, Rust, Go or Java).

-Hands-on with container orchestration and schedulers (Kubernetes / K8s, SLURM, or similar).

-Comfortable profiling performance, optimising I/O, and automating workflows.

-Self-starter, low-ego, collaborative, high-energy.

-Exposure to ML workloads or data-processing pipelines.

-Experience with GPU clusters or CUDA.

-Open-source contributions or widely used internal tools.

France

💰 Competitive cash salary and equity

🥕 Food: Daily lunch vouchers

🥎 Sport: Monthly contribution to a Gympass subscription

🚴 Transportation: Monthly contribution to a mobility pass

🧑‍⚕️ Health: Full health insurance for you and your family

🍼 Parental: Generous parental leave policy

🌎 Visa sponsorship

UK

💰 Competitive cash salary and equity

🚑 Insurance

🚴 Transportation: Reimburse office parking charges, or £90 per month for public transport

🥎 Sport: £90 per month reimbursement for gym membership

🥕 Meal voucher: £200 monthly allowance for meals

💰 Pension plan: SmartPension (percentages are 5% Employee & 3% Employer)