Research Software Engineer

About us

The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL’s new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research - the supercomputers, datasets, software and people that make computational science and digital scholarship possible. We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation in the application of advanced computational and data intensive research methods, working in partnership with academics from all fields. We are a home for the research technology professionals who provide the delivery of UCL research

About the role

You will be part of ARC’s community of staff scientists and research technology professionals, both delivering the services and systems which make data and compute intensive research possible.

Core experience:

• Collaborate with research colleagues from across UCL to construct, improve, and maintain codes used for modelling, analysis, synthesis, simulation et al.
• Rapidly assimilate research context through publications and conversation with research groups, understand the computational algorithms, requirements and interfaces needed within the research effort, and construct high quality software for research colleagues.
• Provide consulting on software practices, techniques, design, and architecture to research groups, leading to robust & maintainable research software.

For this post, we welcome applications from those interested in translational research and entrepreneurship, because working with our UCL Centre for Digital Innovation would be a central activity. Familiarity with cloud computing, infrastructure as code and general DevOps practices is highly desirable, as is previous experience of working with start-up companies or in technology transfer settings.

About you

To be considered for this role you will have following essential experience:

• PhD Degree OR equivalent professional expertise appropriate to the role. This is a role in a research community and we are great believers in the value of research degrees.
• Experience with the authorship, development, and maintenance of software for R&D.
• Knowledge of and commitment to software engineering best practises.
• Experience with at least one programming language used for research.
• Experience authoring technical documents to a high standard.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women

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