IT Research Software Engineer
Recruiter
British Antarctic Survey
Listed on
15th February 2021
Location
Cambridge
Salary/Rate
£38969 - £49794
Type
Contract
Start Date
ASAP
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IT Research Software Engineer Job reference: BAS 21/49Contract type: Full Time
Duration: Fixed Term Appointment (3 years)
Salary: £38,969 - £49,794 per annum.
Benefits: We offer generous benefits
Team: ICT team
Location: Cambridge with possibilities of remote in the Antarctic or the Arctic and at sea
Closing date: 11 April, 2021 11:59 pm Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, please note there may be delays to our recruitment timeline. Description: We are looking for an IT Research Software Engineer to assist researchers within the British Antarctic Survey Artificial Intelligence Lab. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) delivers and enables world-leading interdisciplinary research in the Polar Regions. Its skilled science and support staff based in Cambridge, Antarctica and the Arctic, work together to deliver research that uses the Polar Regions to advance our understanding of Earth as a sustainable planet. Through its extensive logistic capability and know how BAS facilitates access for the British and international science community to the UK polar research operation. Numerous national and international collaborations, combined with an excellent infrastructure help sustain a world leading position for the UK in Antarctic affairs. British Antarctic Survey is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). NERC is part of UK Research and Innovation www.ukri.org We employ experts from many different professions to carry out our Science as well as keep the keep the lights on, feed the research and support teams and keep everyone safe! If you are looking for an opportunity to work with amazing people in amazing places then British Antarctic Survey could be for you. We aim to attract the best people for those jobs. Purpose: A new role for the British Antarctic Survey, a Research Software Engineer position is being created to assist researchers within the BAS AI Lab. The successful applicant will use their software development skills to help researchers run code efficiently on HPC systems including the BAS High Performance Computing Cluster, the UK's JASMIN data analysis facility, the UK's ARCHER2 National Supercomputing Service and other Supercomputer/HPC resources BAS scientists have access to. This will include code running on both CPUs and GPUs. The BAS AI Lab develops and deploys ML, computer vision and AI methods to tackle environmental challenges. This includes building AI based & physics informed Digital Twins of the natural environment. There is scope within the role to develop some of the BAS AI Lab models so they can be accessed through web frontends and make the models accessible to a wider community. The successful applicant will work closely with the BAS HPC team and BAS IT department and software developers across many BAS areas. In additional there will be collaborations with the AI Lab partner institutions; including The Alan Turing Institute, Universities, Centres for Doctoral Training in Earth Observation and AI for Environmental Risk. Qualification: BTEC/National Diploma or equivalent in computing or equivalent working experience. Duties: Work with researchers to debug, optimise, profile and make robust their research codes. This includes making research reproducible and open source as well as adaptable to cloud computing. Developing tools for the AI Lab in order to support all parts of BAS science. Provide software development support to researchers as well as documentation and training. Lead the design and implementation of the Digital Twin framework, bringing together components from across BAS and partner organisations. This will include liaising with the wider NERC/JASMIN/Turing community to share knowledge and lead design. Feedback to the BAS HPC team and IT department on the future direction of the BAS HPC facility to meet the needs of researchers. Work with other BAS departments (Polar Data Centre, Mapping and Geographic Information Centre, Web Applications) on joint software engineering projects and to promote best practices for software development. Support and assist research groups with the implementation of AI/ML including via "hackathons" events. Undertake other duties as appropriate as requested by the BAS Director. The above list is not exhaustive, and the job holder is required to undertake such duties as may reasonably be requested within the scope of the post. All employees are required to act professionally, co-operatively and flexibly in line with the requirements of the post and UKRI Publication date: 12 February 2021 Please quote reference: BAS 21/49
Closing date for receipt of application forms is: 11 April 2021
Interviews are scheduled to be held: 5th May or 12th May 2021 BAS is an Equal Opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and promoting equality in careers in science, we hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award and have an active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme of activity. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. People from ethnic minorities and disabled people are currently under-represented and their applications are particularly welcome. We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We are open to a range of flexible working options, including job sharing, to support childcare and other caring responsibilities.
