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Research Software Engineer/Scientist at STFC (No replies)
Two computational scientist positions available at STFC
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Job advert #1
Research Software Engineer/Scientist
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire
£30,782 - £46,576 dependent upon skills and experience
Full Time or Part Time (minimum 28 hours per week)
Open-Ended (Permanent)
About Us
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of Europe’s largest research organisations. Through combining world-class facilities with major international collaborations, and some of the world’s most talented staff, we are driving ground-breaking advances in science and technology.
STFC’s ISIS facility is a leading centre for research in the physical and life sciences. The facility performs cutting-edge research into the structure and properties of materials at an atomic and molecular level. ISIS supports a national and international community of more than 3000 scientists for research into subjects ranging from fundamental physics and chemistry, through materials science to soft matter, biology, and materials imaging and engineering.
About the role
The ISIS Excitations Group has an opportunity for a developer of scientific software, to participate in the creation and implementation of a major software project to enhance dramatically the data analysis of experiments performed on the instruments operated by the Group. The project, christened PACE, will provide an integrated data visualization, analysis, simulation and fitting environment on parallel and distributed computing, and will interface to materials modelling codes to enable the interpretation of the experimental data.
The duties of the position include:
· input to the design of PACE, with particular responsibility for the parameter fitting application
· development of the data analysis framework together with the other PACE developers, with particular responsibility for the parameter fitting application and instrument resolution function convolution
· development of a generic API to third party modelling codes, for example that simulate atomic vibrations and magnetic excitations, and other codes in response to the scientific needs of the instruments
· development of parallel and distributed computing algorithms to compute neutron scattering cross-sections as required
· agile development of the first release of PACE in response to feedback from instrument scientists and users during the extended beta release period.
The position would suit a computational scientist, an experimental scientist with parallel programming experience, or a research software engineer with a strong technical or scientific background. The role offers the appointee an exciting opportunity to work in a high level research environment, with the chance to learn from and work together with scientists, researchers and software developers with a variety of backgrounds and skills.
About you
You will have a Master’s degree or PhD (or equivalent) in one of the physical sciences (chemistry, physics, material science, earth science, etc.), or equivalent experience.
You will have experience of parallel programming in C++ for shared memory (e.g. OpenMP) and/or distributed computing (e.g. MPI) architectures for scientific software development.
Experience of using and writing scientific software in a technical or research environment is also essential as well as excellent written communication skills.
Benefits
STFC offers a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days’ annual leave, flexible working hours, a workplace nursery, exceptional pension scheme, social and sporting activities and societies, a subsidised restaurant and good public transport links. A relocation allowance may also be available where applicable.
Full details of offered benefits can be found on http://www.stfccareers.co.uk/why-join/rewards-and-benefits/.
Further information
For more details about the PACE project, please visit the web page http://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Proper-analysis-of-coherent-excitations.aspx, or contact Professor Toby Perring ([email protected], +44 (0)1235 445428, http://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Prof-Toby-Perring.aspx).
To Apply
Applicants are required to include a cover letter outlining their suitability for this role. Please also state where you saw this role advertised.
Applications are received by UK SBS; to apply please visit our job board at https://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc253696_10683.aspx. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000.
The closing date for applications is 2 July 2020, however, we encourage early applications as some candidates may be interviewed before this date.
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Job advert #2
Research Software Engineer/Scientist and Technical Architect
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire
Salary £38,318 - £59,308 dependent upon skills and experience
Full Time or Part Time (minimum 28 hours per week)
Open-Ended (Permanent)
About Us
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is one of Europe’s largest research organisations. Through combining world-class facilities with major international collaborations, and some of the world’s most talented staff, we are driving ground-breaking advances in science and technology.
STFC’s ISIS facility is a leading centre for research in the physical and life sciences. The facility performs cutting-edge research into the structure and properties of materials at an atomic and molecular level. ISIS supports a national and international community of more than 3000 scientists for research into subjects ranging from fundamental physics and chemistry, through materials science to soft matter, biology, and materials imaging and engineering.
About the role
The ISIS Excitations Group has an opportunity for an experienced developer of scientific software, to take the lead role in the design and implementation of a major software project to enhance dramatically the data analysis of experiments performed on the instruments operated by the Group. The project, christened PACE, will provide an integrated data visualization, analysis, simulation and fitting environment on parallel and distributed computing, and will interface to materials modelling codes to enable the interpretation of the experimental data.
The duties of the position are:
· responsibility for the architectural design of PACE, based on the scientific requirements defined by the ISIS Excitations Group
· implement the PACE data analysis framework for parallel and distributed computing, together with the other PACE developers
· responsibility for the technical project planning and management of PACE throughout the project, together with the Project Scientist
· agile development of the first release of PACE in response to feedback from ISIS instrument scientists and users during the extended beta release period
· overall responsibility for the integration of the analysis framework, optimisation algorithms and interfaces to modelling codes to form a cohesive data analysis application
The position would suit a research software engineer with a strong technical or scientific background, a computational scientist, or an experimental scientist with parallel programming experience. The role offers the appointee an exciting opportunity to work in a high-level research environment, with the chance to learn from and work together with scientists, researchers and software developers with a variety of backgrounds and skills.
About you
You will have a Master’s degree or PhD (or equivalent) in one of the physical sciences (chemistry, physics, material science, earth science, etc.) or numerate disciplines (mathematics, computer science), or equivalent experience. You will have a deep understanding of parallel programming in C++ for shared memory (e.g. OpenMP) and distributed computing (e.g. MPI) architectures for scientific software.
You will have skill in programming in Python and mixed language programming (e.g. Python – C++) as well as having extensive knowledge of up-to-date development practices (Github, unit and system testing, automatic documentation generation etc.).
You will also have the ability to work both as part of a team and with a high degree of autonomy and have excellent written communication skills.
Benefits
STFC offers a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days’ annual leave, flexible working hours, a workplace nursery, exceptional pension scheme, social and sporting activities and societies, a subsidised restaurant and good public transport links. A relocation allowance may also be available where applicable.
Full details of offered benefits can be found on http://www.stfccareers.co.uk/why-join/rewards-and-benefits/.
Further information
For more details about the PACE project, please visit the web page http://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Proper-analysis-of-coherent-excitations.aspx, or contact Professor Toby Perring ([email protected], +44 (0)1235 445428, http://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Prof-Toby-Perring.aspx).
To Apply
Applicants are required to include a cover letter outlining their suitability for this role. Please also state where you saw this role advertised.
Applications are received by UK SBS; to apply please visit our job board at https://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc253697_10679.aspx. Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on +44 (0)1793 867000.
The closing date for applications is 2 July 2020, however, we encourage early applications as some candidates may be interviewed before this date.
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