Job description

Job summary

We are seeking a Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) to lead research software development for the Malaria Group within the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. The group develop software to support National Malaria Control Programmes, scientists and policy-makers understand the best way to control malaria through the use of modelling and simulation.

The post holder will lead software engineering activities across the team, including working with researchers, coordinating activities with the MRC Centre RSE team, and leading engagement on software projects external partners and funders, including the World Health Organisation and The Global Fund.

This post will involve working with different software, ranging from supporting the individual-based simulation MalariaSimulation (https://mrc-ide.github.io/malariasimulation/)  to the user friendly interface to access modelling results, MINT (https://mint.dide.ic.ac.uk/).

Duties and responsibilities

You will:

• Lead and manage the development and delivery of software projects hosted by the Malaria Group, including coordination of researchers, R software engineers, and web developers.
• Identify and test new technologies, software tools, and workflows that meet the evolving needs of Malaria research team and end users, and ensure that research software engineering adheres to current best practices, e.g., approaches to testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment.
• Develop an analysis pipeline to provide simulation outputs to the MINT web application.
• Collaborate with researchers and RSEs on new machine learning approaches to provide a “surrogate model” that can be used within the web application
• To review code from a variety of projects and languages from other members of RESIDE.
• Interact with researchers and end-users to conceptualize and create user friendly tools for model applications and data visualization.
• Attend and facilitate meetings, workshops, and trainings with academic partners and users of software tools, presenting technical work to a variety of stakeholders.

Essential requirements

You will need the ability to write modular, maintainable and testable code with R programming and package development experience. No previous epidemiological experience is required.

The candidate must have an MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, and / or equivalent experience in a related quantitative discipline.

Further information

This role is offered on a full time for 2 years in the first instance and you will be based at St Mary’s Campus.

The College is currently trialling a Work Location Framework until early 2023.  Hybrid working may be considered for this role and the role holder may be expected to work 60% or more of their time onsite, with 40% the minimum time spent onsite.  The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview.

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research/ 

Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We are an Athena SWAN Silver award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with GIRES to promote respect for trans people.

Documents

• Senior RSE JD.pdf