Assistant Research Software Engineer

The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL's new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research - the supercomputers, datasets, software and people that make computational science and digital scholarship possible.

We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation in the application of advanced computational and data intensive research methods, working in partnership with academics from all fields.

About the role

Would you like to construct, improve, and maintain code used for modelling, analysis, synthesis, simulation and more?

You will design, extend, refactor, and maintain scientific software in all subject areas, providing expert software engineering collaboration services to world leading research teams, training researchers in programming best practices, and working with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges. With such a varied job we don't expect our candidates to know it all from the start.

It is an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, spending time to study both the research areas we support and the specialist technologies applied.

About you

For all roles it is essential that you have either a suitable degree or equivalent professional experience, according to seniority.

We are particularly looking for candidates with web application development experience (e.g. using React) and/or Java (for our healthcare projects), but will consider any candidate with an enthusiasm to learn.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• This post is eligible for USS Pension Scheme defined benefit scheme
• Staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%
• Life insurance is included (3x salary)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.