Research Platform Engineer - Paris/London

Role Summary – Software Engineering track   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.   What will you do   • Accelerate researchers by owning the complex parts of large-scale pipelines and delivering robust internal tooling. • Interface research with product: expose clean APIs, automate model pushes, surface live metrics. • Write efficient, well-tested Python and systems code; enforce code review, CI, and observability. • Design and optimise distributed services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs). • Prototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries.   About the Research Engineering team Based in Paris and London, our REs move fluidly along the research ↔ production spectrum. Engineers can rotate between Platform and Embedded tracks as their interests evolve.   About you   • 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.   Nice-to-haves   • Exposure to ML workloads or data-processing pipelines. • Experience with GPU clusters or CUDA. • Open-source contributions or widely used internal tools.   Benefits   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)   By applying, you agree to our Applicant Privacy Policy.