Senior 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 infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation.

About the role

Would you like to construct, improve, and maintain code used for modelling, analysis, synthesis, simulation and more?
In the job of Senior Research Software Engineer, you will design, extend, refactor, and maintain scientific software in all subject areas, providing expert software engineering collaboration services to world-leading research teams, training researchers in programming best practices, and working with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges. With such a varied job we don’t expect our candidates to know it all from the start. It is an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, spending time to study both the research areas we support and the specialist technologies applied.

We currently have two vacancies at this level. UCL welcomes applications from international applicants who require a visa.

We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis. This role is eligible for hybrid working with a minimum of 20% on site.

About you

You'll need a suitable degree or equivalent professional experience. An aptitude and enthusiasm for learning new skills, and a knowledge of and commitment to software development best practices, are critical. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.

We have multiple vacancies at Senior level and are especially interested in applicants with a good understanding of health informatics and electronic health records, or those who have worked developing software in a research and innovation healthcare environment.

You will have experience of analysing, researching, and solving complex programming problems.

The job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Please supply a cover letter setting out how you meet the selection criteria in the person specification.

What we offer

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

• A yearly promotion scheme across grades. The scheme makes it easier for high-performing staff demonstrating the appropriate skills and behaviours of performing at a higher grade to be recognised and to accelerate their internal career progression.

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-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 under-represented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.

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