Opportunities with the Research Computing team
Alex Coleman
We’re very excited to announce we’re growing the Research Computing team here at Leeds!
We’re growing the team over the next 12 months and adding more research software engineer roles to the team. Research software engineers are a crucial part of Research IT here at the University of Leeds, delivering computational training to researchers, providing research software engineering consulting for research projects, supporting the University’s high performance computing systems and developing our research computing community at the University. We’re currently a small, friendly team, and we come from a real variety of backgrounds including data scientists, web developers, and specialists in distributed graphics. To give you a flavour of what the team is about and why you should apply check out these reasons below:
- Work on diverse and interesting problems, a core part of what we do is research software engineering consulting where academics come to us to ask for support on research projects. This means you get the opportunity to work on interesting and varied research problems, helping you develop new skills and overcome fascinating challenges.
- Contribute to world-leading research, the University of Leeds supports fantastic world-leading research and for many researchers software is at the heart of it. Being part of Research Computing gives you the opportunity to work directly with world-leading academics on their work but also contribute indirectly by providing training and guidance to researchers. This role is a fantastic opportunity to help contribute to, and accelerate work that can change the world.
- Flexibility, in addition to flexibility in what you’ll get up to every day, our team also offers great flexibility in relation to working arrangements, supporting flexible hours and working from home. To ensure the team still feels connected we have regular stand up meetings and manage our tasks using GitHub projects helping foster remote collaboration.
- Space to develop, by offering the necessary support to the entire university, our team is constantly exposed to new concepts and tools. Therefore, personal development is not only supported, but encouraged and shared among us.
- Work and learn with a team, you will have the opportunity to work in an Agile environment, using tools and methodologies that facilitate task management and a fair distribution of the workload.
Author
Alex Coleman
Research Software Engineer