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Senior Computational Research Engineer - Fröhlich Lab

The Francis Crick Institute

Location: London
Salary: From £49,130 per annum with benefits, subject to skills and experience
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 3rd September 2024
Closes: 10th October 2024
Job Ref: R1631
 

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

In this role, you will collaborate with other lab members to develop, implement, and maintain scientific software. This entails teaching and training other group members in good software development practice, establishment of reusable computational pipelines and software development workflows and day-to-day support of group members with coding advice and code review. The role covers a wide range of different functions and supports the lab on a scientific and operational basis. 

The Fröhlich lab builds computational models to unravel the regulatory principles underlying the dynamics of intracellular signalling. We build these models by blending techniques from mathematical modelling and machine learning. More details can be found on the lab’s webpage www.frohlichlab.com 

The successful candidate will join a growing, multi-disciplinary team of scientist with the opportunity to contribute own ideas and help shape the research profile of the lab. Currently, our team includes two PhD students and one PostDoc, with an additional PhD student and PostDoc set to join us in the coming months. Our team members bring diverse expertise from fields such as mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, and data science.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide computational expertise to help other group members achieve their research objectives.
  • Providing technical expertise and input for the development, refinement and troubleshooting of relevant or novel computational methodologies.
  • Implement, benchmark, evaluate and apply existing and novel numerical methods to build bespoke analysis and modelling pipelines.
  • Help to develop others by mentoring and sharing expertise and experience.
  • Help to support and develop group project management and reporting procedures.
  • Continue professional development through maintaining awareness of developments in the wider research communities.
  • Participating in academic activities, including group meetings and journal clubs, seminars, workshops and scientific meetings.
  • Publish where appropriate. 

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

  • If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
  • The closing date for applications is 10/10/2024
  • All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
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