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Platform Engineer

Helical | London, United Kingdom | Posted May 31, 2026

Position Overview

Helical is the AI-native lab for biology.

We turn biological foundation models into production systems for discovery—so scientists can run experiments in silico at the speed of inference.

We’re already deployed with top pharma, supporting work from target identification to biomarker discovery.

The Role

We’re hiring a Platform Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind our virtual AI lab.

This is a hands-on role:
debugging Kubernetes one moment, improving architecture the next, shipping to production throughout.

You’ll be working on the system that makes AI-driven drug discovery actually usable at scale.

What You’ll Do

  • Run and scale Kubernetes (incl. GPU workloads)
  • Own cloud infrastructure and infra-as-code
  • Support ML training & inference pipelines
  • Manage CI/CD, observability, and deployments
  • Handle dat...

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