University of Edinburgh Hiring for Research Software Engineer Job at Edinburgh, Scotland Full Time

UE07 £34,304 to £40,927 per annum

College of Science and Engineering / School of Physics and Astronomy / Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics / Particle Physics Theory

Full Time; 35 hrs per week

Fixed Term; 2 years (starting as soon as possible)

We are looking for a R esearch Software Engineer in lattice field theory, funded by the STFC DiRAC facility.

The Opportunity:

This position will support research software development for the STFC DiRAC projects running at the Particle Physics Theory group in Edinburgh. The research goal of these projects are to support actual efforts in finding physics beyond the Standard Model using lattice simulations. These calculations are expected to be performed using resources from the national supercomputing facility DiRAC.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• PhD (awarded or near completion) in Physics.
• Strong knowledge of the lattice formulation of gauge quantum field theories.
• Experience of C++ parallel programming in UNIX environments.
• Experience using supercomputing systems.
• Capable of working independently, exercising a high degree of initiative and demonstrating a pro-active and flexible approach to work.

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Informal enquiries welcome to Dr Vera Guelpers

Please apply online uploading a CV and a research statement including a portfolio of selected software development contributions, including public repository links if relevant.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. The particle theory group at the University of Edinburgh has an excellent tradition and a very strong ongoing research effort in lattice field theory. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

The Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics is composed of three research groups.

The Particle Physics Experiments group seeks understanding of the fundamental particles of nature and the interactions governing their behaviour. In particular, we aim to explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter through the study of CP violation with the LHCb experiment: to understand the mechanisms of electroweak symmetry breaking that lead to the creation of mass, and to search for new particles at ATLAS and future colliders; to discover and characterise particle dark matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN and DarkSide-20k experiments; and to explore neutrino oscillations, and neutrinos of astrophysical origin with experiments distributed grid computing (GridPP), to store and analyse the vast quantities of data that are produced in these endeavours.

The Particle Physics Theory Group is interested in fundamental physics at all energy scales, from the hadronic binding energy scale, to the scale of present and future particle colliders, up to the energy scales of the very early universe at its first fractional second of existence. We have interest and theoretical involvement in most current and upcoming particle physics experiments, high energy colliders, and in observations made by the WMAP and Planck satellites. We pursue the very latest developments in both perturbative and nonperturbative field theory, renormalization theory, and the application of quantum field theory to other branches of physics such as turbulence theory and condensed matter systems.

The Nuclear Physics Group has a broad and diverse range of research interests aimed at understanding the properties and structure of nuclei, the origin of the chemical elements in the universe, and the way in which nuclear reactions power some of the most spectacular stellar explosions, such as novae, supernovaea and X-ray bursts. Our research is performed at world-leading oversea laboratories (TRIUMF, RIKEN, GSI, LUNA, CERN and others), using a variety of experimental techniques and state-of-the-art instrumentation developed by the group.