Senior Research Software Engineer

Job reference: SAE-026419
Salary: Grade 7 £45,585 to £56,021 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Department of Physics & Astronomy
Hours Per Week: 1 FTE
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 20/09/2024
Contract Duration: The post is available from November 1^st 2024 and is tenable until October 31^st 2026, with extension subject to mutual agreement
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences

Applications are invited for the above post focused on leadership in software engineering and sustainable software development, to drive a FAIR and energetically efficient computational research program impacting major research infrastructures for particle physics, astronomy and beyond.

The role is varied and interesting and you will be working in an engaging and supportive interdisciplinary environment that will help you develop as an individual while allowing you to be productive and use your abilities to develop excellent software within the European-funded EVERSE project (https://everse.software). You will be one of the leading actors deploying and disseminating best practices of software excellence among other researchers who code in all European Science Clusters. You will do so by profiling and improving selected particle physics software pilots in terms of FAIR principles and energetic sustainability, as well as by benchmarking and choosing the most suitable hardware platform. 

Candidates will require a good BSc (Hons) or MPhys (or equivalent) in either a computing or scientific subject with a preference for computer science, physics and astronomy (or equivalent experience). They must demonstrate evidence of leadership on a variety of software systems, excellent software development skills in different programming languages (C++ and Python at minimum) and on different computing architectures beyond CPUs, experience of the entire software life cycle on several projects, use of development best practices (e.g., version control, release management), set-up of systems for workflow testing and deployment in production, and experience on multiple software and computing projects. They must have excellent communication and presentation skills given that the role takes place within a large international collaborative environment and includes training of others at different levels.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

When completing the additional information section of your application, please ensure you make reference to the job description and person specification above, as this will form an integral part of the shortlisting process.

Please see the further particulars for the full set of essential and desirable criteria for this role. If you feel you might not fit exactly then please feel free to reach out to the recruiting manager - we are keen to accommodate where we can.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Caterina Doglioni (recruiting manager for this post)

E-mail: caterina.doglioni@manchester.ac.uk (allow for a few days before expecting a reply due to maternity leave)

or

Name: Shoaib Sufi
Tel: + 44 (0) 161 275 7034
Email: shoaib.sufi@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Further particulars including job description and person specification are available on the University of Manchester website - click on the 'Apply' button above to find out more.

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