Research Software Engineer

Overall Purpose of the Job

Working with individual researchers or research groups the role is responsible for the specification, design or modification of software systems to meet defined research needs. The identification of concepts and their translation into implementable design.

• The role includes providing consultancy and advice, service development, software development (short and long-term), solving users’ problems, developing documentation, community building, installing and configuring software and ensuring licence compliance. The retention of compatibility with current architectures, and the adherence to appropriate standards within constraints of cost, security and sustainability.
• The role will also be involved in the training of researchers in one or more aspects of research applications, programming, visualization and computationally intensive research systems and languages.
• The role will be responsible for undertaking assignments across project and / or service functions as required.

What you will get in return :