Senior Research Software Engineers (RSEs) (x3 roles)

About the role

Do you have expertise and experience in the development and implementation of research software? Would you enjoy working with researchers, collections, and innovative digital methods to explore history, culture, and ideas? Would you like to join a growing team of digital scholarship experts at one of the world’s most prestigious universities?

Digital Scholarship at Oxford is recruiting three Senior Research Software Engineers (RSEs) to its team and is particularly seeking engineers with experience in any of the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, textual scholarship, or data and infrastructure.

As part of the Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc) team, which includes a small group of specialist RSEs, the successful applicants will support the digital scholarship within the University, participate in the research software development community, and engage with researchers to help to realise the potential of their research and the University’s collections through generating innovative and impactful digital outputs. They will have opportunities to engage with the University’s wider digital scholarship community and to contribute to a range of activities and initiatives, such as the Research Software Development Network, the Digital Humanities @Oxford Summer School and the MSc in Digital Scholarship.

About you

You will hold a PhD/DPhil with a significant software engineering component, with post-qualification research and software engineering experience, or substantial experience of software development in a research environment, and have the ability to design, implement and deploy a complex software engineering project while applying software engineering best practices and using common software architecture paradigms.

You will also have experience in working with data engineering, databases, data modelling, or a cognate field, and working in and contributing significantly to a software project team.

The duties and skills required are described in further detail in the job description.

Application process

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via the Apply button above, where the job description and access to the online recruitment system can also be found.

Whilst the role is a grade 8 position, we would be willing to consider candidates with potential but less experience who are seeking a development opportunity, for which an initial appointment would be at Grade 7 (£38,674 - £46,913 per annum) with the responsibilities adjusted accordingly. This would be discussed with applicants at interview/appointment where appropriate.

When making your application, please specify which of the three specialisms you feel to be most interesting or relevant to your skills and experience. Further information about the posts is available from Andrew Cusworth (via digitalscholarship@humanities.ox.ac.uk).

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 29 November. Only applications received before this time can be considered.

Shortlisting is expected to take place week commencing 2 December and interviews held week commencing 9 December.

Please quote Vacancy ID 174201 on all correspondence.

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