Research Software Engineer
Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford
Grade 7: £32,817 – £40,322 p.a.

Research Software Engineer Applications are invited for a full-time Research Software Engineer to join the Oxford Protein Informatics Group (OPIG). We are recruiting to the vacancy now, for someone to start as soon as possible. You will support the deployment, maintenance, future developments and integration of OPIG’s world-leading immunoinformatics computational tools for pharmaceutical companies, and expand the network of our industrial partners. This exciting position is part of a unique team within the University and will provide an unrivalled and privileged opportunity to interact directly with a highly productive academic group and many pharmaceutical companies.

With a relevant or close to completion PhD/DPhil and post-qualification research experience, your track record will include significant coding experience in a variety of languages and platforms, particularly Python. Prior experience of collaboratively developing software tools in the areas of computational chemistry, structural biology/bioinformatics, statistics or machine learning will be advantageous. Alongside these responsibilities, you will carry out research and develop novel methodologies in at least one of the OPIG research areas; contribute ideas for new research projects; develop ideas for generating research income and act as a source of information and advice for other members of the research group.

This post is fixed-term for 3 years in the first instance.

Only applications received before 12.00 midday on 3 June 2021 will be considered. Interviews will be held on 18 June 2021.

Committed to equality and valuing diversity.

Contact Person : HR
Vacancy ID : 150740
Closing Date & Time : 03-Jun-2021 12:00
Contact Email : HR@stats.ox.ac.uk