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Systems Research Engineer - AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Hiring Organisation
European Tech Recruit
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Systems Research Engineer - AI Infrastructure/Distributed Systems We're partnered with a leading advanced technology research centre in the UK, focused on building next-generation AI-native infrastructure. They're seeking a Systems Research Engineer for AI Infrastructure and Distributed Systems to join … onsite in Edinburgh on a permanent basis. As large language models continue to reshape the software stack, this team is pioneering scalable, high-performance systems for training and serving AI at data centre scale. Sitting at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world deployment, the group transforms ...

Systems Research Engineer - LLM Optimisation (vLLM / TensorRT-LLM)

Hiring Organisation
Project People
Location
City Of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Systems Research Engineer - LLM Optimisation (vLLM/TensorRT-LLM) Permanent Edinburgh City Centre (On-site 5 days), walking distance from local transport links Salary : Competitive and negotiable, generous benefits package In an era where Large Language Models (LLMs) are rebuilding the foundational software stack, our client … forefront of reshaping how large-scale models are trained, served, and deployed. Operating at the intersection of advanced systems research and industrial-scale engineering, their Edinburgh-based team is driving new AI Infrastructure & Agentic Serving architectures. This role is a unique opportunity to help define next-generation large-scale ...

Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
European Tech Recruit
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Systems Research Engineer European Tech Recruit are working closely with a leading telecommunications & research company, based in Edinburgh, who are looking for a talented Systems Research Engineer to join their team . In this role you will join a research centre driving new AI Infra & Agentic Serving architectures … helping define the next-generation large-scale data centre and AI infrastructure systems. Positioned at the intersection of advanced systems research and industrial-scale engineering, our client's teams turn innovative system designs into deployable, real-world technologies. This role is ideal for recent PhD graduates looking to build ...

Systems Research Engineer - Distributed Systems / C++

Hiring Organisation
European Tech Recruit
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Systems Research Engineer - Distributed Systems/C++ We are currently partnered with a globally leading research centre in the UK looking to expand their team with a Systems Research Engineer. This is an incredibly high calibre team reshaping how large-scale models are trained and served … through next-generation AI-native infrastructure and "super-node" clusters. This is a permanent opportunity based onsite in Edinburgh. Key responsibilities for this Systems Research Engineer position: Architect and implement distributed system components for AI workloads across CPU, GPU, and NPU clusters. Conduct in-depth profiling and performance ...

AI Systems Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
microTECH Global LTD
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
seeking Systems Research Engineers with a strong interest in computer systems, distributed AI infrastructure, and performance optimization. These roles are ideal for recent PhD graduates or exceptional BSc/MSc engineers looking to build research-driven engineering experience in areas such as operating systems, distributed systems, AI model serving, and machine learning infrastructure. You will work closely with senior architects on real-world projects, helping to prototype and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure. Required Qualifications and Skills: · Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. · Strong knowledge ...

Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £85 per hour
detect and respond to emerging AI-driven threats at enterprise scale. This is a deeply technical engineering role focused on building high-performance distributed systems, scalable microservices, and secure cloud-native infrastructure capable of handling massive real-time workloads across modern cloud environments. You'll work alongside world … scale real-time security workloads Design and develop microservices, reusable frameworks, and platform components used across multiple engineering teams Build secure, reliable, and performant distributed systems operating at enterprise scale Develop automated testing strategies focused on reliability, scalability, and security validation Integrate services across complex internal platforms, APIs ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Software Engineer – Distributed Market Data Systems A leading global quantitative investment firm is seeking a Software Engineer to join a newly established team building a next-generation market data platform. This is a rare opportunity to work on a greenfield project developing globally distributed, high-performance systems … scale. What You'll Be Doing Designing and building cloud-native platforms for processing and distributing real-time data Developing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems Architecting scalable infrastructure capable of handling large volumes of streaming data Collaborating closely with researchers, data scientists, and engineers across the business ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
djr
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
scale products. This is not legacy support work. This is a genuine opportunity to join a world-class engineering environment building cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and highly scalable backend services used at enormous scale across international markets. The organisation is investing heavily into modern … technical quality, collaboration and continuous improvement. What you’ll be doing Designing and building scalable cloud-native applications using .NET and AWS Developing modern distributed systems and event-driven architectures Building resilient APIs, backend services and platform capabilities at enterprise scale Working closely with Product and Platform Engineering ...

Scala Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Space Executive
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
scale a high-performance backend platform powering some of the world’s leading retail brands. This is a backend-focused engineering role, working across distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API integrations within a modern functional Scala environment. You’ll join a highly technical product engineering team building scalable … systems that sit at the core of a rapidly growing AI product used internationally across ecommerce and customer support environments. Company Culture: Hybrid working - 3 days per week in the London High-autonomy engineering environment with strong ownership and trust Fast-moving product business with genuine technical depth Collaborative ...

Senior Software Engineer - Scala

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
revenues exceeding$1 billion, currently expanding its Manchester engineering function. This is a rare opportunity to join a genuinely high-performing engineering team building distributed systems that process vast amounts of data and power critical products used globally. I'm particularly interested in speaking with engineers who have … fundamental to success. The Opportunity As a Senior Scala Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and developing highly scalable backend systems, influencing technical direction, and helping to shape the future of a rapidly growing engineering organisation. Working alongside some of the industry's strongest engineers ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Daniel James Resourcing Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
environments. This is not a slow-moving enterprise IT environment. The engineering teams here are focused on modern product development, cloud-native architecture, scalable distributed systems, and building high-quality software that directly impacts real users and real-world transactions at scale. Youll join a collaborative engineering culture … teams to deliver genuinely modern SaaS products. The environment is heavily engineering-led, with a strong focus on: cloud-native development scalable APIs and distributed systems event-driven architecture CI/CD and automation engineering quality and clean architecture modern software delivery practices product-centric engineering Tech Stack ...

Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Corecom Consulting
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Principal Engineer | AI Systems & Distributed Platforms Remote (UK) | £90,000 to £120,000 | Early-Stage AI Start-Up We're partnered with an early-stage AI business building large-scale operational AI systems designed to automate highly complex enterprise workflows. This is not another 'AI wrapper' business. … company is developing a sophisticated AI-native platform focused around autonomous workflows, reasoning systems, orchestration, and large-scale document/case processing within highly regulated environments. They're already live with enterprise customers and are now entering a major scaling phase as both platform demand and customer onboarding accelerate. ...

Low Latency Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Latency Java Engineer London | Hybrid Electronic Trading/Distributed Systems/FinTech A leading global trading technology business is looking to hire a Low Latency Java Engineer to join a high-performing Core Trading team building the systems at the heart of a large-scale electronic trading … platform. This is a hands-on backend engineering role focused on developing low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems responsible for order execution, booking, valuation, and real-time risk management across multiple trading products. The environment is highly technical, fast-paced, and engineering-driven, with strong ownership and direct ...

Senior Java Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
platform used across client reporting, APIs, workflow management, and trading operations. This is a hands-on engineering role with strong exposure across platform architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern software engineering practices. The position also offers a genuine progression path toward Head of Engineering responsibilities over time. … Role You will work closely with Product, Client Services, and Engineering teams to design and deliver scalable backend systems supporting post-trade workflows, reporting, integrations, and client-facing tooling. The environment combines modern Java engineering with capital markets domain exposure, including clearing, OTC derivatives, collateral, and prime brokerage workflows. ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
5V Video
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead Software Engineer Contract to Permanent Hybrid (London) Rates negotiable Most streaming platforms struggle to scale backend systems properly you’ve seen it. This role is about building the infrastructure that actually holds up under real-world production demand. Why This Role Leading major media/streaming end client … Real ownership of backend systems at scale Solving complex distributed systems problems in a high-traffic environment The Company/Product You’ll be working on a large-scale streaming platform powering millions of users, building and scaling backend systems that support critical services across ...

Electronic Trading Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Senior Trading Systems Developer London | Hybrid Electronic Trading/Low Latency Infrastructure/Crypto Markets A leading global digital assets and trading technology business is looking to hire a Senior Trading Systems Developer to help build and optimise high-performance trading infrastructure supporting market making, OTC, systematic trading … infrastructure optimisation, focused on maximising throughput, minimising latency, and delivering deterministic performance across critical trading workflows. The Role Design and develop low-latency trading systems supporting market data, execution, and order routing Build high-performance distributed systems used across trading and liquidity platforms Optimise application, operating system ...

Solace Messaging Administrator

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
ADMINISTRATOR - LONDON KEY POINTS Salary up to £130,000 + Bonus 4 days per week onsite in Canary Wharf Supporting critical enterprise Solace messaging systems Opportunity to work within a low latency, high throughput trading environment ABOUT THE CLIENT We're supporting a globally recognised financial services and technology … optimise a critical low latency messaging environment. You'll be joining a highly technical, collaborative team responsible for delivering resilient, high throughput messaging systems that underpin pricing, trading, and other mission critical applications across a complex global infrastructure. THE BENEFITS Competitive bonus structure Exposure to enterprise-scale messaging infrastructure ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Zorba Consulting Limited
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 - 120,000 Annual
Principal Software Engineer We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with strong backend engineering expertise and a passion for scalable distributed systems. You will play a key role in shaping architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across the platform. Join a fast-growing Banking SaaS provider … Java backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Integrating with payment platforms, banking infrastructure, FX/crypto providers, and card processors Driving architectural decisions across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure Leading technical design reviews and influencing engineering best practices Mentoring engineers and helping scale a high-performing engineering culture Designing ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Zorba Consulting Limited
Location
EC3, Broad Street, Greater London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£100000 - £120000/annum 25 days hols, Share Options, Healt
Principal Software Engineer We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with strong backend engineering expertise and a passion for scalable distributed systems. You will play a key role in shaping architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction across the platform. Join a fast-growing Banking SaaS provider … Java backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Integrating with payment platforms, banking infrastructure, FX/crypto providers, and card processors Driving architectural decisions across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure Leading technical design reviews and influencing engineering best practices Mentoring engineers and helping scale a high-performing engineering culture Designing ...

Senior Backend Engineer

Hiring Organisation
SecurityHQ
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
role where you will help design and build the core services, APIs, and integrations that power our security platform, working closely with a globally distributed team. You will work closely with product managers, security analysts and fellow engineers to deliver reliable, scalable and observable systems. Alongside building high-quality … coding tools to improve speed and productivity without compromising on quality, security or maintainability. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working on distributed systems, takes pride in clean and well-tested code, and wants to contribute to a technically strong and collaborative engineering environment. This role ...

Platform SQA Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Insight Global
Location
Chester, England, United Kingdom
level validation across application, business, data, infrastructure, and network layers that underpin mission‐critical payments flows. The ideal candidate brings senior experience testing complex distributed systems, deep technical breadth across enterprise platform technologies, and the ability to build automated validation within CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will … production platform changes in accordance with change control, incident management, and problem‐management processes. Execute and automate functional, regression, integration, and performance tests across distributed platform components. Ensure platform validation aligns with required security, compliance, audit, and infrastructure standards. Automate repeatable test scenarios and integrate them into CI/ ...

Principal Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Cititec
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
time trading operations, analytics, and decision-making. The role sits at the heart of large-scale transformation programmes focused on modern cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, streaming technologies, and advanced data platforms. Key areas include: Real-time and event-driven systems Distributed data and software platforms … engaging senior stakeholders, and driving delivery across complex programmes. Ideal background: Strong software engineering experience with Python and modern cloud technologies Experience building scalable distributed systems and data platforms Strong understanding of streaming/event-driven architectures Previous exposure to Energy, Commodities, or Capital Markets environments Ability ...

Staff AI Product Engineer -Python - London

Hiring Organisation
Transparent Technology
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Staff Product Engineer | London Hybrid/Remote | AI x FinTech | Python, AI Workflows, Distributed Systems | £120k-£200k + Equity A VC-backed AI company is rebuilding how accounting work gets done, using agentic workflows and AI automation to eliminate the high-volume operational work that has resisted meaningful … automation for decades. Working with some of the world's largest accounting firms, they are building enterprise-grade AI systems on top of ERP platforms like SAP, NetSuite and Workday to automate complex financial workflows at scale. They are looking for a Staff Product Engineer to own meaningful product ...

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £800 to £1,000 per day
Infrastructure Engineer (GPU, Distributed Systems, AI Platforms) A leading AI business is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer who has experience with GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms. Hybrid/Remote options available. Outside IR35. Paying between £800 to £1000 per day. Experience and skills required … Infrastructure Engineer, GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms ...

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
York, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 800 - 1,000 Daily
Infrastructure Engineer (GPU, Distributed Systems, AI Platforms) A leading AI business is hiring an AI Infrastructure Engineer who has experience with GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms. Hybrid/Remote options available. Outside IR35. Paying between £800 to £1000 per day. Experience and skills required … Infrastructure Engineer, GPU, Distributed Systems & AI Platforms JBG81_UKTJ click apply for full job details ...