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Research Software Engineer – Behavioural and Neural Data (2 posts)
Job Description
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GCNU) are looking for two proactive and creative Research Software Engineers to join the Neuroinformatics Unit in a newly established Data Centre. The team will develop software tools needed for research within the two research centres, including imaging, electrophysiology and behavioural control, data processing and archival, as well as analysis tools.
This is an exciting opportunity to help establish and develop the Unit. You will assist in the identification of software requirements within the institutes and within the wider scientific community. You will work with academic and research staff, end-users and industrial partners to design, adapt, implement, document and publish these software systems.
Working alongside our IT team, you will create data management workflows for internal users and for sharing of data with the international research community.
Your work will directly contribute to our efforts to understand how the brain generates flexible, intelligent behaviour. You will also have opportunities to become involved in the research programmes at the two Centres, assisting with and contributing to ongoing research projects.
We will develop software using the most appropriate technologies, but the majority of software is currently, and is likely to continue to be written in Python.
Download the `Information for Candidates (pdf)
<https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/sites/default/files/2022-05/Job%20Description%20and%20Person%20Specification%20-%20Research%20Software%20Engineer%20-%201884662.pdf>`_ for the full job description.
Restrictions
- No telecommuting
- Agencies are OK
Requirements
You will have a collaborative approach to work and the ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues to deliver successful research outcomes.
You will have significant knowledge of at least one programming language used in research (e.g. Python, Julia, C++, Java, MATLAB, R) and experience of at least one other). Substantial experience and knowledge of software development best practice including testing, documentation and version control is essential.
About the Company
About the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) brings
together world-leading scientists to investigate
how brain circuits process information to generate
perception, form memories and guide behaviour.
Developed through the vision and partnership of
the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Wellcome,
and with substantial investment from these
partners, the mission of the SWC is to generate
experimentally testable theories of brain function.
SWC comprises 12 highly interdisciplinary
experimental research groups accommodated in
a new, purpose-designed building, offering an
outstanding and unparalleled research
environment. SWC scientists use a broad
spectrum of the latest advances in molecular and
cellular biology, imaging, and advanced neural
and behavioural recording techniques, in order to
explain how animal behaviour arises from activity
in neural networks. Scientists at SWC enjoy state-
of-the-art research laboratories, cutting-edge
scientific equipment, technologically-advanced
prototyping and fabrication laboratories and
custom in-house high-performance computing
facilities. The full complement of scientists in the
Centre is expected to reach around 150 together
with circa 50 dedicated support staff.
About the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
(GCNU) was created at UCL in July 1998 with
funding from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
The Unit has become a world-class centre for
theoretical neuroscience and machine learning.
Its core strengths are in computationally and
probabilistically oriented theoretical
neuroscience and in probabilistic and statistical
machine learning. In neuroscience, we have
contributed to the understanding of neural
coding, dynamics and computation, to
reinforcement and unsupervised learning, and
to normative models of behaviour. As a high
profile, international research centre, the Unit
has in place extensive visitor, seminar and
workshop programmes.
The Unit’s co-location with SWC creates the
potential for a uniquely close interaction between
theory and experiment in neuroscience, and for
the integrated study of perception, control and
learning in natural and artificial systems. These
interactions are supported by connected PhD
programmes, a joint postdoctoral fellowship,
shared staff, and frequent formal and informal
interactions amongst investigators.
SWC and GCNU are most closely linked with the
UCL Faculties of Brain Science and Life Sciences
and are aligned with Life Sciences (LMS). The
LMSleadership team works closely with SWC and
GCNU leadership to support and enable their
mission and facilitate research excellence.
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