Junior Research Software Engineer: Alchemy - Grade 7

An exciting opportunity for a Junior Research Software Engineer role is available as part of the project team for Alchemy, a new partnership between the University of Liverpool, Imperial College London, and a large consortium of academic and industrial partners. Alchemy has been funded to promote the development of novel AI methods and to transform the uptake of AI in the chemistry community. The consortium brings together experts across AI and both experimental and computational chemistry. This Hub will promote connectivity of the broader community, training, and networking, as well as funding state-of-the-art research.

Based at University of Liverpool’s Material Innovation Factory (MIF), you will have the opportunity to be involved in the design and implementation of a new visualisation software of large databases of crystalline materials or molecules, e.g. the Cambridge Structural Database, based on the recently developed generic geometric invariants with a wide range of academic and industrial partners, and you will contribute to the Hub’s success by developing innovative software, promoting the importance of good software engineering, and enabling transformative research. You will work under general direction with a clear framework of accountability, while exercising substantial personal responsibility and autonomy, applying novel technologies to diverse and meaningful challenges. This will align with the AI Hub’s forerunner project ‘Large-Scale Crystal Structure Prediction’ led by collaborators at the University of Southampton.

The post will be ideal for an individual interested in working creatively across a range of projects and experts to promote the development of mathematically rigorous approaches to classifying crystals and molecular structures.

You should have a PhD in Computer Science or Mathematics, or in a closely related area, and research publications applying rigorous mathematical methods and scalable algorithms to large databases of periodic materials or molecular structures.

This is a fixed term post available for 1 year in the first instance.

Should you require any further details on the role, please contact Professor Andy Cooper, aicooper@liverpool.ac.uk or Professor Vitaliy Kurlin vkurlin@liverpool.ac.uk.

Commitment to Diversity

The University of Liverpool is committed to enhancing workforce diversity. We actively seek to attract, develop, and retain colleagues with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We welcome applications from all genders/gender identities, Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, individuals living with a disability, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

For full details and to apply online, please visit: recruit.liverpool.ac.uk

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