Posted 1mo ago

Research and Development (9 Month Contract)

@ InfoSum
Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
HybridContract
Responsibilities:Prototype implement, Advance research, Collaborate widely
Requirements Summary:AI development workflows, LLM integration, agentic architectures; strong programming in Golang/Java/Python/JavaScript; web/backend frameworks; cloud platforms; CI/CD; collaboration.
Technical Tools Mentioned:Golang, Java, Python, JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenAI API, Anthropic API
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Job Description

The Engineering department at InfoSum is responsible for designing and delivering innovative data collaboration and AI technologies that power our platform and enable privacy-safe, AI enabled, data partnerships at global scale.

Alongside core product development, the department invests in research and experimentation to explore emerging technologies, validate new architectural approaches, and prototype potential future capabilities of the platform.

The R&D function plays a key role in bridging research ideas with practical engineering solutions, helping transform promising concepts into prototypes and technical foundations that can evolve into production systems.

Job Overview: 

As an R&D Engineer, you will work closely with the Chief Architect and engineering leadership to explore new technical ideas, build prototypes, and evaluate emerging technologies that could shape the future direction of the platform. A key part of the role will also involve continuing the development of existing internal research initiatives and evolving them into more mature technical prototypes and early product foundations.

This role combines hands-on engineering with exploratory research. You will be responsible for rapidly translating architectural ideas and research concepts into proof-of-concept implementations, experimental prototypes, and early-stage systems that demonstrate feasibility and inform product decisions. In many cases you will take ownership of advancing research work beyond its initial concept stage, iterating on prototypes and expanding them into more complete technical capabilities.

While this role is exploratory in nature, it also requires strong AI and engineering discipline. Successful prototypes often evolve into foundations for production systems, and therefore the role requires the ability to build clean, well-structured and maintainable code while iterating quickly.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Prototype Implementation: Take architectural ideas and research concepts and turn them into working software prototypes. Build functional implementations that demonstrate how new platform capabilities could work in practice.
  • Advancing Research Projects: Contribute to the continued development of existing internal research initiatives by expanding prototypes, improving implementations, and evolving early concepts into more complete technical solutions.
  • Experimental Software Development: Design and implement experimental services, tools, agents and infrastructure components using solid engineering practices. Write clear and maintainable code that can serve as the foundation for future product development.
  • Technical Exploration & Validation: Explore new frameworks, technologies, and architectural patterns through hands-on development. Evaluate feasibility by building working implementations rather than purely theoretical analysis.
  • Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Document implementation approaches, experimental findings, and prototype architectures. Share insights and technical learnings with the broader engineering organization.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with architects, engineers, product teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure prototypes and experimental systems can inform real product development.
  • Continuous Learning: Stay informed about advances in distributed systems, AI systems, and modern software engineering practices.

Additional company wide requirements 

Understand and comply with InfoSum’s security and privacy policies, and be attentive to information security at all times in the performance of duties for InfoSum.