Research Software Engineer United Kingdom
Job description
Part-time, fixed-term contract for three years. (FTE. 0.5) 18.25 hours per week.
We are seeking a fixed-term, part-time research software engineer to support the teaching and research activities of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM). You will be joining a small, but growing, RSE team in a research software development capacity.
CIM is a research centre dedicated to expanding the role of interdisciplinary methods through new lines of inquiry that cut across disciplinary boundaries, through research and research-led teaching. We have three Masters degrees: MA in Digital Media and Culture, MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures, and MASc in Data Visualisation, and a PhD in interdisciplinary Studies.
As part of your application, we strongly recommend including a link to your github/gitlab profile and/or another public repository you have coded in your CV.
We will consider applications for employment as a job share unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Informal enquiries should be referred to CIM’s Senior Research Software Engineer, Dr Carlos Camara Menoyo at [email protected].
Interview Date: TBC.
Job Description
To provide software-related and technical support to the research and teaching activities of the Centre through liaison with academic staff and central University colleagues, and to maintain the technical infrastructure required to deliver this support.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
User Engagement & Support
- Designing and contributing to the delivery of training workshops to postgraduate students and academics from a variety of interdisciplinary backgrounds. To include training in the use of R and Python applied to diverse topics such as: web and app development (including working with web platform APIs and scraping data); data visualisation; and data science - machine learning and generative AI, statistics and ‘computing’.
- Collaborating with academics to design and create research software and scripts addressing specific project and general research needs (i.e., methods, data, models) in a readable, reliable, and reproducible fashion.
- Promoting open research practices in both teaching and research.
- Provision of support for the Centre’s social media accounts.
- Liaise between the academic community in CM and central computing and technical services to enhance teaching and research practices through the use of technology.
- Provide ad hoc support/advice to staff researchers and postgraduate students on research software practices and technical literature, with guidance from Senior RSE is required.
Technical
- Supporting and encouraging the sustainable use of digital tools, data sets, data analytics, visualisation and innovative digital methods throughout the Centre.
- Documenting infrastructure, protocols, and guides in the RSE Team Knowledge Base.
- Provision of technical support to the Centre as required, including maintaining software and hardware/other equipment and associated inventories.
Financial & Resource Management
- Identify and quote for hardware for use in research projects, with reference to budgetary constraints, mentored by a senior RSE.
- Attend and contribute to RSE team and research project meetings.
For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.
At CIM we are committed to continuously improving our efforts in building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for students and all staff. We believe that every member of our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways of understanding the world. We welcome candidates from a diversity of underrepresented groups as well as candidates whose research and teaching is on underrepresented subjects including those who have research expertise in East and South East Asian studies and the Global South.
The mission of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) is to investigate how methods and methodical practices drive interdisciplinary research and how interdisciplinary research drives methodological innovation. You will join a friendly and supportive team, made up of approximately 15 permanent academics and 2 research software engineers, who are committed to working together to conduct high quality interdisciplinary research and research-led teaching. You will contribute to our shared mission through your critical, innovative approach to methodology, complementing and extending the range of approaches we bring to research and education.
The University
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University of Warwick holds an Athena SWAN Silver award; a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. Further information about the work of the University in relation to Athena SWAN can be found at the following link: Athena Swan (warwick.ac.uk)
The University of Warwick is one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University alliance, whose aim is to become by 2025 an open, multicultural, confederated operation of connected campuses.
Benefits and Rewards
Please refer to this link for a full list of our employee benefits here at Warwick here.
Right to work in the UK
We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government website page Apply for a UK visa to see if you are eligible to obtain right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.
