• Job Description

  Req#: 7242

  UE07, £37,099 - £44,263 per annum
  College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, Deanery of Clinical Sciences, Centre for Cardiovascular Science
  Fixed term, available for 18 months
  35 hours per week

  We are looking for a Research Software Engineer in Computational Cardiology to join the Edinburgh Computational Cardiovascular Imaging research group, working in person at the University of Edinburgh BioQuarter site.

  The Opportunity:

  The post holder will be responsible for the design, implementation and testing of Python code to integrate the OpenEP platform with the UK national supercomputing service (ARCHER2). The post holder will provide expert support to the wider research group for software implementation for evaluating computational algorithms for the analysis of electrophysiology data at scale.

  Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Excellence in Python software development for scientific computing is essential
  • Prior experience handling large quantities of clinical, electrophysiological or medical imaging data is desirable
  • Prior experience in high performance computing is desirable
  • Relevant domain knowledge relating to cardiac electrophysiology

  For informal enquiries prior to submission please contact Dr Steven Williams, joint lead of the Edinburgh Computational Cardiovascular Imaging group via email (steven.williams@ed.ac.uk)

  Information on OpenEP can be found at the following website: https://openep.io.

  As part of this application you are required to submit a document of no more than one page detailing how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined on the job description.

  Click here to view a copy of the full job description.

  As a valued member of our team you can expect:

  Day to day support from the ECCI research group with world leading expertise in medical imaging, clinical electrophysiology and biomedical engineering.

  An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
  
  The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

  If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab). tab).

  The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.

• About the company

  The University of Edinburgh is a public research university in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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