Software Engineer (Inference Platform, AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom. Hybrid working requires coming into the office 3 days a week.

Company

hirify.global applies AI and machine learning to drug discovery, building predictive and generative models based on and beyond AlphaFold to develop innovative medicines.

What you will do

• Develop and operate an inference platform serving fleets of machine learning models to scientific applications.
• Optimize inference services to solve scaling limits and deliver high-throughput performance across the model-serving stack.
• Work with research and applied ML teams to improve infrastructure stability, reliability, and scalability.
• Contribute to tooling and architectural design decisions.
• Deliver high-quality, well-tested, user-focused features.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience deploying and scaling inference frameworks such as KServe or Seldon within Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native machine learning lifecycle management.
• Strong programming skills and a reliability-first approach to software development.
• Experience developing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems and high-throughput architectures.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and modern DevOps practices.
• Ability to work from the London office 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with workload scheduling, ML efficiency research, and hardware benchmarking.
• Experience with GPU-aware infrastructure and specialized inference servers such as Triton or TF Serving.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, interdisciplinary environment spanning drug discovery, research, and applied machine learning.
• Values focused on curiosity, creativity, care, initiative, integrity, determination, and cross-field collaboration.
• Hybrid working model designed to support knowledge sharing and in-person collaboration.
• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for disabilities or additional needs.