Senior Research Software Engineer

The Oxford Research Software Engineering Group (OxRSE - www.rse.ox.ac.uk) is
looking to recruit a Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) to join our team.
We work with research groups across the university to create, improve and
maintain software used for world-class scientific research and translational
projects, and provide consultation and training on best practices in research
software development and reproducible research.





This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team, in a role primarily
providing support to the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
programme at Oxford ( https://saiis.web.ox.ac.uk/). Oxford will host 55
postdoctoral fellows over 6 years starting from March 2023. OxRSE is providing
RSE support to the fellows via software consultancy, direct development
support on their research projects, and the delivery of training courses to
the fellows, both those in Oxford and internationally.





In addition to this, as a senior member of the OxRSE team, the post holder
will be responsible for the acquisition and management of other projects, and
the supervision of RSEs and Junior RSEs. Some of our past / current projects
include Global.health ( https://global.health): an improved, scalable platform
for disease tracking created by an international team of researchers from
leading institutions such as Oxford, Harvard and the Boston Children’s
hospital; PyBaMM ( www.pybamm.org), a NUMFOCUS sponsored library for solving
PDE models of batteries; and LanguageScreen ( languagescreen.com) a key tool
for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme and part of the
COVID-19 catch up package offered by the Department for Education to primary
schools in England.





We are looking for candidates who hold a doctoral degree with a significant
software development component, with post-qualification research and software
engineering experience. We will also consider candidates without a doctoral
degree but with substantial experience of software engineering in a research
environment. You must be able to collaborate effectively with other
researchers to design and implement reliable and maintainable software
solutions to scientific questions and must be able to rapidly acquire skills
in new programming languages, libraries and technologies. Any prior experience
in software engineering for AI and machine learning applications, and/or in
high performance computing (HPC) would be desirable.





This post is offered as an open-ended position subject to external funding. It
is full time, but flexible options will be considered (e.g., part-time, job
share).





Applications for this vacancy are to be made online and you will be required
to upload a supporting statement and CV. Your supporting statement should be
completed using the form supplied, and must explain how you meet each of the
selection criteria using examples of your skills and experience.





**The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 14th March 2025.**





For further information, please contact Martin Robinson at
martin.robinson@dtc.ox.ac.uk .