The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the world. We are a friendly and diverse team who work across the university developing high-quality software, collaborating with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains. Healthcare research is a growing application area for us, and this new post focuses on such activity, working closely with other groups in Research IT Services (RITS) and collaborators in the Health Data Research (HDR) UK initiative.

We are seeking someone to lead UCL’s work enabling analysis of the massive sensitive datasets that are increasingly core to health data research. Your work will focus on helping researchers to make the most effective use of the resources available at UCL and elsewhere; for instance helping them prepare their data for analysis, developing new software, or scaling their existing software. This may involve any aspects of data science and AI, including statistics, visualization, and machine learning. You will also be responsible for designing the next generation of our services for health data research, liaising with colleagues across UCL, our partners and HDR UK to ensure our systems and tools are fit for purpose.

Since this is a new service area, you will be expected to provide significant input to the scope and responsibilities for the role once in post. Longer term, we intend this single post to nucleate a sub-team fulfilling the role, funded both by future research grants and institutional commitments, which you could progress to lead.

As part of the RITS team you will mentor other team members and continually improve the team’s ways of working. You will contribute to the development and design of teaching and training courses in data science for health and related subjects and you may also manage external funding opportunities from initial idea through to successful funding.

If the following describes you then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software addressing research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are experienced in programming languages and platforms used for data-intensive research, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

We welcome a wide range of backgrounds and technical skill sets within the group. For this role strengths in data science and high-throughput computing are particularly valuable.

For more details and to apply check out the full advert. The closing date is 2nd February 2020, with interview date TBC. This position is permanent (on an open-ended contract), with salary range of £44,674 – £52,701.

The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind, and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the UK. We are a friendly and diverse team, soon to have 20 members, and we work across college developing high-quality software, collaborating with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.

We are now recruiting a second post in an exciting new collaboration, offering the opportunity for a research software engineer with skills in large-scale data management and analysis to underpin the activities of internationally leading research groups across the institution, including the Centre for Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC), the Institute of Neurology (ION) including the Dementia Research Centre, the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, and the UCL Hospital (UCLH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Clinical Research Informatics Unit (CRIU). They will take a leading role in implementing, maintaining and supporting usage of medical research data sets, particularly imaging data, and have an active role in the deployment of cutting-edge image analysis techniques and image sharing services to large scale studies.

If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software addressing research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are experienced in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

For more details check out the advert. The closing date is 11th November 2019, with interviews on 21st November. This position is permanent (on an open-ended contract), with salary negotiable up to £47,193.

The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind, and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the UK. We are a friendly and diverse team, soon to have 18 members, and we are looking to add another senior RSD to help lead the group! As well as providing technical leadership for projects, you will be expected to share in line and project management responsibilities.

We work across college developing high-quality software, collaborating with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.

Whether this means using Python to build up a database of ancient Sumerian writings, parallelising Fortran codes for surface catalysis simulations, creating an online system to develop and evaluate models of heart cells, analysing healthcare data in R, or designing and building a big data image processing library in C++11 and Python, we do it all, bringing specialist programming expertise, modern development practices (CI, TDD, Agile…), and engineering rigour to academic software. We provide software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and collaborate with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges.

If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software addressing research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are experienced in two or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

We welcome a wide range of backgrounds and technical skill sets, given the variety of areas in which we work and the regular turnover of new projects. We have a particular gap in senior oversight of arts and humanities projects, but other interests are also very welcome.

For more details check out the full advert. The closing date is 2nd September 2019, and interviews will be held on 13th September. This position is permanent (on an open-ended contract), with salary range of £43,884 – £51,769.

The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind, and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the UK. We are a friendly and diverse team, soon to have 15 members, and we are looking for more people to join us!

We work across college developing high-quality software, collaborating with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.

Whether this means using Python to build up a database of ancient Sumerian writings, parallelising Fortran codes for surface catalysis simulations, creating an online system to develop and evaluate models of heart cells, analysing healthcare data in R, or designing and building a big data image processing library in C++11 and Python, we do it all, bringing specialist programming expertise, modern development practices (CI, TDD, Agile…), and engineering rigour to academic software. We provide software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and collaborate with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges.

If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software addressing research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are experienced in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

We welcome a wide range of backgrounds and technical skill sets, given the variety of areas in which we work and the regular turnover of new projects. At present we’re particularly on the lookout for people with experience in R programming, but all candidates meeting the essential criteria are encouraged to apply.

For more details check out the full advert. The closing date is 2nd May 2019. This position is permanent (on an open-ended contract), with salary negotiable up to £46,359. We would also welcome applications from candidates interested in a part-time position.

The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind, and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the UK. We are a friendly and diverse team, now with 13 members, and we are looking for more people to join us!

We work across college developing high-quality software, collaborating with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.

Whether this means using Python to build up a database of ancient Sumerian writings, parallelising Fortran codes for surface catalysis simulations, creating an online system to develop and evaluate models of heart cells, analysing healthcare data in R, or designing and building a big data image processing library in C++11 and Python, we do it all, bringing specialist programming expertise, modern development practices (CI, TDD, Agile…), and engineering rigour to academic software. We provide software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and collaborate with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges.

If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software addressing research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are experienced in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

We welcome a wide range of backgrounds and technical skill sets, given the variety of areas in which we work and the regular turnover of new projects. At present we’re particularly on the lookout for people with experience in R programming, health informatics, and/or web development (e.g. Angular, Django), but all candidates meeting the essential criteria are encouraged to apply.

For more details check out the full advert. The closing date is 11th February 2019, with interviews planned for 21st February. This position is permanent (on an open-ended contract), with salary negotiable up to £46,359. We would also welcome applications from candidates interested in a part-time position.

The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind, and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the UK. We are currently a team of 11 RSEs and we are looking for more people to join us!

We work across college developing high-quality software in collaboration with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.

Whether this means using Python to build up a database of ancient Sumerian writings, parallelising Fortran codes for surface catalysis simulations, adding red blood cells to a supercomputing simulation of brain blood-flow, refactoring DNA forensics code in R, or designing and building a big data image processing library in C++11 and Python, we do it all, bringing specialist programming expertise, modern development practices (CI, TDD, Agile…), and engineering rigour to academic software. We provide expert software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and collaborate with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges.

If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software to address research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are expert in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

Please note that, on this occasion, we are also interested in interviewing candidates with experience of front-end web development, with or without a research background. If you are looking into applying your skills into education and research, we’d love to hear from you.

For more details check out this advert. Applications must be received by 14th October 2018. This position is permanent but subject to the availability of continued funding sourced from appropriate research collaborations, and is funded for two years in the first instance, with salary negotiable up to £46,359. We would also welcome applications from candidates interested in a part-time position.

The UCL Research Software Development Group, founded in 2012, was the first of its kind, and is one of the leading university-based research programming groups in the UK.

We work across college developing high-quality software in collaboration with scientists, engineers and scholars from all research domains.

Whether this means using Python to build up a database of ancient Sumerian writings, parallelising Fortran codes for surface catalysis simulations, adding red blood cells to a supercomputing simulation of brain blood-flow, refactoring DNA forensics code in R, or designing and building a big data image processing library in C++11 and Python, we do it all, bringing specialist programming expertise, modern development practices (CI, TDD, Agile…), and engineering rigour to academic software. We provide expert software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and collaborate with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges.

If the following describes you, then you should consider working with us:

• You have created and maintained software to address research problems in one or more fields.
• You can rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements.
• You are committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts.
• You are expert in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and are keen to expand your knowledge.

For more details check out this advert. Applications must be received by 8th February 2018. This position is permanent but subject to the availability of continued funding sourced from appropriate research collaborations, and is funded for two years in the first instance.

While we always welcome any excellent candidate matching the job description, we are on this occasion particularly seeking individuals with experience in databases, interfacing with hospital IT systems (HL7, ICIP, EPIC), or developing web interfaces.