Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST (SDET), AI INDUSTRY / BICESTER (OXFORDSHIRE) / UP TO £45,000 + BENEFITS

Do you want to help build the future of Artificial Intelligence and High Performance computing platforms?

We are a small team of highly motivated, technically minded, forward thinkers and are on the lookout for a cream-of-the-crop software engineer to join our team and focus on the testing and quality of our suite of products.

Your contribution to our team will impact and improve the experience of our customers and open source users in multiple industries, including Academia, Life Sciences, Health Care, Engineering and Formula 1. If this is of interest to you, then we welcome your application!

Who we are...

We’re a small friendly team that is building for and supporting the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High performance Computing (HPC). We ensure the robustness of our existing offerings as well as constantly adopting the newest and latest technologies to be used in the most innovative and productive ways. Our products include Service Based offerings as well as online freely available open source toolsets.

As a member of the development team, you will work closely with us and collaborate with colleagues across the organisation as well as with the open-source community to invent and apply the best solutions for the various testing challenges.

Your work will give you opportunities to work with many different technologies, expose you to multiple end-users across multiple market sectors as well as allowing you to build your reputation in the wider HPC and open-source community.

What’s on Offer?

• Excellent pay (£35,000 - £45,000, dependent on experience)
• Hybrid working (Negotiable time onsite and work-from-home)
• Flexible working 7.5 hours per day - Monday to Friday with a healthy work/life balance
• Generous group pension scheme
• Small team with a relaxed, friendly, social working environment in a young up-and-coming company
• Travel opportunities to two major conferences (located in the EU and US) and one UK conference (negotiable). We also occasionally travel to client, partner, and community events.

Key Responsibilities of the Software Development Engineer:

• Monitoring and reporting on the regular toolchain builds.
• Investigating build failures and working with Engineering and Development teams to resolve the issues.
• Designing and implementing test automation.
• Leading quality and test initiatives within our team
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Have full freedom to work directly with product managers, other developers and customers as required to define delivery phases of exciting new and existing projects.
• Define project activities and sub-activities; produce documentation to be used as the basis for managing the project implementation.
• Take ownership of projects, overseeing and engaging in development efforts along with management of development processes.
• Lead and participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Day-to-day investigation of new technologies to ensure we are using the best tools for the job.
• Be exposed to large-scale computer systems and supercomputers, as well as emerging technologies such as public and private IaaS.

Skills & Experience:

• Full stack software development experience
• Experience in Python, Ruby, Bash scripting / programming.
• Experience in Linux software development environment.
• Experience improving, testing, delivering, and maintaining production quality software.
• Experience in using the test frameworks.
• Able to put pen to paper and create technical writing and documentation in an interesting and engaging way.
• Solving problems; you understand that most business problems can be solved in numerous ways.

What would make you ideally suited..

• Experience in developing or an understanding of AI & HPC workflows
• Experience in cloud technologies, Openstack, AWS, Azure
• Experience in application / Workflow containerization
• Experience with Linux OS deployment / Image building / Openstack Deployment
• You are passionate about open source and community involvement
• You can demonstrate an open-source background, e.g. GitHub project contributions, personal projects, etc.
• You’re a fast mover and have a strong drive to progress further with their career in a hands-on highly challenging role.

What’s Next?

If you have the enthusiasm and skills to be successful in this brand-new Software Development Engineer role, we would love to hear from you. APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.