# Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Python & Kubernetes

About us Re-architecting Engineering for the Age of Intelligence PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company’s mission is to accelerate hardware innovation by overhauling what industrial engineering and manufacturing look like today. PhysicsX is building a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle. The company partners with leading organisations in aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductors, materials, and energy & renewables, supporting them on some of their most critical and complex challenges. PhysicsX is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with offices in London, New York, and Singapore and an expanding presence in the Bay Area. Staff Software Engineer - SRE and Core Infra London (Hybrid) | Engineering | Full Time The Role PhysicsX is growing rapidly and so is the infrastructure that underpins our platform. We are building core infrastructure that is reliable, secure, scalable and reproducible across multiple cloud providers and on premises environments. As the platform evolves to serve increasingly complex engineering workloads, the foundational infrastructure layer becomes ever more c

- **Id**: 1088525
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/physicsx-senior-software-engineer-infrastructure-python-kubernetes>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T10:54:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T00:11:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9546
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Simulation & Digital Twin Software, Industrial AI, AI for Science

## Company

- **Id**: 251
- **Name**: PhysicsX
- **Domain**: physicsx.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/physicsx>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 35
- **Ghost share**: 0.114
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 98
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 171000
- **Max usd**: 304000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 24

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Crossplane** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Istio** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **Elixir** — Optional: yes
- **Erlang** — Optional: yes
- **External Secrets** — Optional: yes
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **OCaml** — Optional: yes
- **Octopus Deploy** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 45

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T11:35:54Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 98
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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