Job description
Job details
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Work mode: Remote
- Employment type: Full-time (Not an internship)
- Salary: GBP 54,550 per year
Role overview
Turing, a leading AI research accelerator based in San Francisco, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in Python and FastAPI for a remote position based in Oxford, Oxfordshire. This full-time role offers £54,550 per year and focuses on building scalable backend systems that power advanced AI training pipelines and enterprise AI deployments. You will work with a global team of AI researchers and engineers to accelerate frontier research and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
Job details
This is a full-time, remote position located in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The role offers a competitive salary of £54,550 GBP annually. Turing supports frontier AI labs and global enterprises by providing high-quality data infrastructure, advanced training pipelines, and expertise across software engineering, logical reasoning, STEM, multilinguality, multimodality, and AI agents.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI
- Develop APIs and microservices for AI training pipelines
- Collaborate with AI researchers to deploy advanced systems
- Optimize performance and reliability of distributed systems
- Maintain high-quality code with testing and documentation
Requirements
- 4+ years of backend engineering experience with Python
- Strong expertise in FastAPI or similar async frameworks
- Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
- Proficiency with databases, caching, and message queues
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Benefits
- Fully remote work flexibility
- Competitive salary package
- Work on cutting-edge AI research projects
- Collaborate with global AI experts