SUSTAIN CDT Research Software Engineer

Please note, this post is permanent and part time at 0.5 FTE.
Closing Date: Thursday 19 September 2024
Interview Date: Tuesday 01 October 2024

The University of Lincoln has been awarded a prestigious £10.9m UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial INtelligence (SUSTAIN): www.sustain-cdt.ai. The School of Engineering & Physical Sciences and the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT) leads this collaboration with the University of Aberdeen, Queen's University Belfast, and University of Strathclyde, to train 60 PhD students over an eight-year period (five annual intakes of 12 students, 3 per university). Each PhD project will be linked to industry stakeholders, who will help the student and academic supervisory team to co-create an innovative and practical solution to real-world problems in the sustainable agriculture domain.  

SUSTAIN provides a cross-disciplinary, multi-institution doctoral training programme to support innovative research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sustainable agri-food. It covers technical and social science aspects of AI, alongside training in plant, animal, and/or biosciences, tailored to students' needs and interests and aligned with an identified industry challenge. Alongside their PhD, students also participate in bespoke training workshops, CDT events (eg conferences and summer schools) and taught modules offered at any of the four partner universities.  

The SUSTAIN CDT Research Software Engineer will work as part of the CDT project team based in LIAT, on the University of Lincoln's Riseholme Campus, to support the delivery of the SUSTAIN Centre for Doctoral Training. Reporting to the SUSTAIN Director, the role will serve to support technical, software engineering aspects of students' experience and research projects. This will include ensuring that students are comfortable with their computing environment, that they have access to appropriate facilities (including high performance computing facilities available at each University and UKRI facilities), and that they are education about the basic principles and practice of software engineering.  

To fulfil this role, you will need to be a confident and adaptable communicator (both in person and in writing) with a clear understanding of software engineering principles, fundamental aspects of DevOps and high-performance computing.  

Please note that whilst this is a permanent post, it is linked to an 8 year funded project. At the end of this period, discussions will be held with the postholder about any available suitable alternative roles at the University of Lincoln.

If you would like further information or an informal discussion about this exciting opportunity, please contact Sarah Ward, Project Manager for Centre for Doctoral Training at sward@lincoln.ac.uk.

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