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# Data Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Cubiq Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.cubiqrecruitment.com/jobs/data-platform-engineer/#cqj-apply

## About the Role

* Proven experience building and operating data platforms or data infrastructure in production
 * Strong software engineering fundamentals, with a habit of writing clean, tested, maintainable code
 * Hands-on experience designing and running data pipelines at scale
 * A collaborative approach, with the confidence to work alongside researchers and engineers from different disciplines
 * Curiosity about how AI can accelerate science, and the drive to solve hard problems in a fast-moving environment

## Description

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will build the foundations that let researchers and machine learning teams move quickly. Your platform will carry the data behind AI-driven drug design, and the quality of what you build will shape how fast the science moves., * Design, build and run a data platform that supports large-scale machine learning and scientific research

 * Create reliable, well-monitored data pipelines that turn complex, varied scientific data into something teams can trust and use
 * Work closely with ML researchers, scientists and software engineers to understand what they need, and build the tooling that removes friction from their work
 * Set high standards for data quality, reliability, security and observability across the platform
 * Improve performance, scalability and cost-efficiency as data volumes and ambitions grow
 * Shape the technical direction of the platform, bringing sound engineering judgement to architecture decisions