Platform Engineer
Helical
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
4 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
IntermediateJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Build Automation
Azure
Bash
Cloud Computing
Databases
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
DevOps
Python
Machine Learning
Prometheus
Grafana
Backend
Kubernetes
Docker
Job description
We turn biological foundation models into production systems for discovery-so scientists can run experiments in silico at the speed of inference.
We're already deployed with top pharma, supporting work from target identification to biomarker discovery.
The Role
We're hiring a Platform Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind our virtual AI lab.
This is a hands-on role: debugging Kubernetes one moment, improving architecture the next, shipping to production throughout.
You'll be working on the system that makes AI-driven drug discovery actually usable at scale.
What You'll Do
- Run and scale Kubernetes (incl. GPU workloads)
- Own cloud infrastructure and infra-as-code
- Support ML training & inference pipelines
- Manage CI/CD, observability, and deployments
- Handle databases, storage, and migrations
- Build automation (Python/Bash)
- Work closely with ML, backend, and product
Requirements
- 3+ years in platform / DevOps / infra
- Strong Kubernetes, Docker, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Solid Python
- Experience with CI/CD, databases, infra-as-code
- Comfortable debugging production systems
- High ownership, low ego
Nice to Have
- GPU workloads / ML infra
- Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Security/compliance (SOC2, HIPAA)
- Biotech / pharma experience