Posted by s.hettrick on 6 January 2014 - 9:25am

The UCL Research Software Development Team works with researchers across college to ensure UCL retains the highest standards of excellence in computational research. They are recruiting one additional research software developer for the team, appointed for two years in the first instance.

In this role, the recruit will design, extend, refactor, and maintain scientific software across all subject areas. They will modify legacy software to run on state-of-the-art high performance computing infrastructure, provide expert software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams, and will work with researchers to build software to meet new research challenges.

The recruit will have created and maintained software to address advanced research problems in one or more fields. They will be able to rapidly assimilate understanding of new scientific questions, and quickly connect research needs to software requirements. They will be committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these to research contexts. The recruit will be an expert in one or more languages and platforms used for scientific computing, and keen to expand their knowledge.

Please visit the UCL job advert for more information.