Senior Data and Cloud Engineer, AI for Science

At Microsoft Research AI for Science we believe deep learning has the potential to transform scientific modelling and discovery crucial for solving the most pressing problems facing society, including sustainable materials and discovery of new drugs.

For our labs in Amsterdam (NL), London (UK), Cambridge (UK), and Berlin (DE), we seek a highly motivated data and cloud engineer to join our density functional theory (DFT) team. The mission of the team is to enable highly accurate and scalable predictions of the electronic structure of molecules and materials using deep learning-powered DFT.

The primary focus of this role will be building and operating the cloud data pipelines that generate the large quantum chemistry datasets our models are trained on. You will work on turning quantum chemistry software into scalable cloud workflows, organizing and validating large scientific datasets, and running the cloud infrastructure behind them reliably and efficiently.

This post will be open until the position is filled.

• Work with domain experts to turn quantum chemistry software into large-scale cloud data generation pipelines
• Organise, validate, and store large scientific datasets and make them efficiently available for ML and analysis
• Build cloud infrastructure with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD for repeatable deployments
• Ensure reliability, security, and efficiency through observability, incident response, and capacity planning

Required qualifications:

• MSc in computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, or a related area
• Solid Python software engineering
• Experience building and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems and data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with Azure (preferred) or another major cloud, including containers and orchestration, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD
• Experience with agentic software development
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary collaborative environment, through effective communication of technical concepts to non-experts from different technical backgrounds

Data Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Germany is € 90,100.00 - € 152,500.00 per year.