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# Data Infrastructure and AI Engineer - Database Systems / AI Infrastructure /Distributed System[...]

- **Company:** European Tech Recruit
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Compilers, Encodings, Databases, Computer Engineering, Concurrency Controls, Data Infrastructure, Microprocessors, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Systems Theories, Graph Database, Multiprocessing, Query Optimization, Remote Direct Memory Access, Search Technologies, AI Infrastructure, Transaction Processing (Computing), Data Processing, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Large Language Models, Indexer, Information Technology, Data Management, Machine Learning Operations, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2859586620-data-infrastructure-and-ai-engineer-database-systems--ai-infrastructure-distributed-system

## About the Role

* Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline
 * Contributions to database systems, data processing engines, storage systems, distributed systems, compilers, operating systems, or other low-level infrastructure projects
 * Experience with hardware-conscious system design and optimisation
 * Familiarity with multi-core CPUs, NUMA, RDMA, CXL, NVM, SSDs, GPUs, NPUs, or heterogeneous computing architectures
 * Knowledge of vector search and embedding management
 * Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
 * Knowledge of knowledge graphs and semantic data management
 * Experience developing memory systems or infrastructure for agentic AI
 * Experience optimising systems for AI workloads and large-scale data processing
 * Research publications in leading database, systems, or AI infrastructure conferences and journals
 * Experience translating academic research into production-quality systems or prototypes

## Description

As part of their continued investment in advanced systems research, they are looking to hire a Data Infrastructure and AI Engineer to work at the intersection of database systems, distributed infrastructure, machine learning systems, and low-level computing., * Design, implement, and evaluate next-generation data infrastructure and AI systems

 * Research and develop innovative approaches to database systems, distributed data management, and AI infrastructure
 * Investigate database architecture, query processing, query optimisation, storage engines, indexing, transaction processing, concurrency control, recovery, and distributed data management
 * Develop and optimise systems supporting modern AI workloads, including large language models and agentic AI applications
 * Research techniques including LLM quantisation, on-device inference, supervised and unsupervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and gradient-free learning
 * Investigate memory architectures and data management techniques for agentic AI systems
 * Develop system prototypes and conduct rigorous empirical evaluations
 * Analyse workloads and identify system-level performance bottlenecks
 * Design and execute benchmarks, experiments, and performance evaluations
 * Profile complex systems and diagnose performance, scalability, and efficiency issues


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