Research Software Engineer - Imaging (10339)

Rosalind Franklin Institute

The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a national research centre, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary research and technology. As Research Software Engineer - Imaging you will be responsible for the delivery of the imaging strategy for the imaging software elements of the Franklin.  Primarily this will be in the area of automated processing and assessment of optical, X-ray and electron microscopy data, and microscope control and assessment pipelines.

Role Overview

The Rosalind Franklin Institute is looking to recruit a Research Software Engineer (RSE) as part of its Artificial Intelligence & Informatics theme. Working with the Image Analysis team and others in the Structural Biology and Correlative Imaging themes, you will provide expertise to develop the software tools necessary to automatically process and assess the quality of correlative microscopy data, and to understand the data collection, processing and analysis pipeline.

We are currently looking for a Research Software Engineer – Imaging with excellent skills in the following areas:

• Research Software engineering principles (revision control, testing, continuous integration, deployment)
• Practical experience with writing tomographic reconstruction, segmentation or microscope control software, especially with respect to scanning electron microscopy, or X-ray or electron tomography
• Practical experience with post processing tomography or microscopy images to extract biological information
• Numerical Python (Numpy, scipy, matplotlib) 

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of this role will include:

• Develop automated microscope control approaches for sample preparation and data collection using FIB-SEM.
• Generate and test new approaches to characterise the quality of data processing strategies throughout the correlative, optical, X-ray and electron microscopy workflows.
• Package software tools, using standard RSE principles, in common image visualisation and pipelining applications (e.g., napari, Ot2Rec, Okapi-EM, SuRVoS2).
• Attend scientific seminars and meetings to keep up to date with developments in software and methodology.
• Disseminate results through participating in the manuscript preparation process and presenting at scientific meetings.
• Contribute to the public engagement in the science programme of the Franklin, especially through the Science Scribbler program.

Before submitting your application, please ensure you read the Job Information Pack for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.

About us: The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a new national Research Centre, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary research and technology.

Location: The Franklin is based in Harwell Campus, UK’s innovation hub and well-established as one of the leading science and innovation campuses in Europe. 

The Franklin’s underlying aim is to produce the best science for research today, and this means resolutely embracing a diverse team, who have a wide range of experiences, skills and knowledge to push forward on the innovative work our institution delivers. Both our work and our institution are better for it. For further information, view our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy. 

At the Rosalind Franklin Institute we welcome applications from all around the world!

To be considered for this role, please send a CV and cover letter through explaining why you think you are the right person for this job. Please including information about your education and work experience.

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 4th August 2024.