Apex Systems US

Title : Research Development Software Engineer Location: Cambridge, UK- 50 % on site End date: 30th June 26 (12 months intent) Location: A minimum of 50% per week is expected onsite rising to 60% at some point in the future. Required Strong software engineering skills in Python, with demonstrable experience building maintainable, well-tested, and production-quality systems, together with strong engineering hygiene practices including testing, code review, and documentation. Experience building and maintaining APIs, backend services, and web applications using frameworks such as FastAPI or Django. Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment of Azure-hosted or similar cloud services. Experience designing and building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage at reasonable scale. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work with evolving requirements, translate research goals into practical technical solutions, and debug complex systems. Experience with frontend development, ideally React and TypeScript. Demonstrated ability to work in environments with high uncertainty, e.g., completed PhD or substantial R&D or startup experience. This focuses more on the engineering aspects than before: Shifted emphasis from evaluation/research to platform engineering, APIs, data pipelines, deployment, and operational reliability Added CI/CD, monitoring, containerisation, and deployment as explicit responsibilities Moved ML/evaluation experience from required to preferred Made Python engineering skills the lead qualification rather than PhD Added API/backend frameworks and cloud infrastructure as required experience Reduced references to human studies and community evaluation workflows