The University of Manchester Hiring for Research Software Engineer Job at Manchester, England Full Time

About IT Services

IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers.

The Team

Research IT provides research-focussed, specialist computing infrastructure, software engineering, data science, application support and training to researchers across a wide range of domains, who have diverse technical requirements. The Research Software Engineering team within Research IT is responsible for providing a range of software engineering services including engineering, consultancy and training. Research IT comprise a friendly, open, inclusive and diverse group of skilled people within a passion for helping others and delivering world-class research.

The Role

This role combines the best of two worlds: the ability to run and shape the software development activity of a cutting-edge group of probabilistic and machine learning researchers at a world leading institution, while also allowing you to allowing you to help lead the Research Software Engineering (RSE) service at The University of Manchester. Half of the role requires you to demonstrate people, project and technical leadership with the other half requiring you to practice a high standard of research software engineering.

For the technical half of the role, you will join a team of probabilistic modellers and machine learning researchers developing new principles for AI-assistants, which are able to help their users even when the goals are only partially known, such as in the beginning of scientific research.

The group will be working on topics including automatic experimental design, Bayesian inference, human-in-the-loop learning, machine teaching, privacy-preserving learning, reinforcement learning and simulator-based inference.

As a member of the RSE leadership team you will line manage other Research Software Engineers and contribute to the operation of the team. This includes the management of demand and resource planning, and the project management of a portfolio of research software engineering projects carried out by other RSEs in the team.

The Person
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Experience in algorithm development and implementation in software.
• Experience of probabilistic modelling.
• Experience of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).
• Experience in the complete software engineering lifecycle.
• A passion for supporting research and research software.
• An empathetic and sensitive approach when dealing with people.
• A commitment to personal and professional development and a desire to learn.
• Meticulous organisation, time and project management skills and experience.
• Experience using software engineering tools and processes including version control, agile tooling (e.g. Jira, GitHub Projects, KANBAN), code reviews and pull requests.

What you can expect in return

• As well as a competitive salary, and working for an internationally recognised University
• A generous annual leave entitlement of 29 days plus bank holidays
• Closure between the Christmas and New Year periods – this is in addition to your annual leave entitlement
• Access to a comprehensive employee assistance programme, supporting your physical, mental, and financial health and legal advice
• Leading pensions schemes, travel season tickets loans, workplace nursery, staff networking groups discounts for all the family to enjoy and so much more.
• Did we mention training, career opportunities and career progression.
• In fact, there are so many benefits available you can see more of them by clicking HERE

Find out more about our organisation and values:

• IT Services: About us and ITS Practice Charter
• Benefits of working at The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a truly global institution with a reputation for education and innovation that resonates across the world, offering a wide range of courses and boasting outstanding facilities in the centre of Manchester. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students, it has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries. Manchester’s industrial and cultural heritage is mirrored by the achievements of some of the University’s most celebrated names. The computer revolution started here in June 1948 when a machine built by Tom Kilburn and Sir Freddie Williams, known affectionately as ‘The Baby’, ran its first stored program. The celebrated wartime codebreaker Alan Turing worked on this computer during his time at Manchester.

The University is committed to world-class research, an outstanding learning and student experience and social responsibility in everything it does. It is making one of the largest investments in facilities ever seen at a UK university, with £750 million spent so far and a further £1 billion to follow by 2022. Its goal is to become one of the world’s leading Universities.

When completing the additional information section of your application, please ensure you make reference to the job description and person specification above, as this will form an integral part of the shortlisting process.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Blended working arrangements may be considered

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Dr Adrian Harwood

Email: Adrian.harwood@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.