{"id":6366,"date":"2017-05-24T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2017-05-24T07:43:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T06:43:34","slug":"hpc-centric-research-software-engineering-role-within-rse-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"HPC-centric Research Software Engineering role within RSE Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A job opportunity within the <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/\">RSE Sheffield<\/a> group is available under the job title of <strong>&#8220;Research Software Engineer in High Performance Computing (HPC) enabled Multi-Scale Modelling&#8221;<\/strong>. This is a EU funded position with a focus on supporting the biomedical computing community within the <a href=\"http:\/\/insigneo.org\/\">INSIGNEO<\/a> institute.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for people who can both write good code and be part of a thriving, supportive community. You&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/contact\/\">join a diverse team<\/a> who collaborate with academics across the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/\">University of Sheffield<\/a>, the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/blog\/2017-04-10-state-nation-report-research-software-engineers-released\">national community of RSEs<\/a>\u00a0and multiple outreach organisations including <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/blog\/sheffield-code-firstgirls\/\">Sheffield Code First:Girls<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/SheffieldR-Sheffield-R-Users-Group\/\">Sheffield R User&#8217;s group<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/\">Software Sustainability Institute<\/a>\u00a0and our own <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/blog\/code-cafe-R\/\">Code Cafe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also collaborate closely with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/cics\/home\">University IT department, CiCS<\/a>, on matters such as <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk\/en\/latest\/\">High Performance Computing<\/a> and software applications support and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/library\">University Library<\/a>\u00a0on Research Data Management and <a href=\"https:\/\/software-carpentry.org\/\">Software and Data Carpentry<\/a>. Outside of the University, we collaborate with commercial organisations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/nag.co.uk\/\">NAG<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.mathworks.com\/\">Mathworks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/blog\/the-university-of-sheffield-named-an-nvidia-gpu-education-center\/\">NVIDIA<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/\">Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0along with open source communities such as <a href=\"http:\/\/opendreamkit.org\/\">OpenDreamKit<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/science.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla Science Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rse.ac.uk\/\">Research Software Engineering<\/a> as a career pathway is relatively new in the UK and The University of Sheffield is at the forefront of this movement. Our group is academically-led, based in the department of Computer Science and is backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=6037\">2 EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellowships<\/a> and funding drawn from multiple collaborators in all University faculties including the l<a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/blog\/linuistics_grant_2016\/\">argest grant ever awarded to our faculty of arts and humanities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this activity has one aim: <strong>To help better research through better software.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rse-sheffield-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rse-sheffield-logo-300x164.png\" alt=\"rse-sheffield-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rse-sheffield-logo-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rse-sheffield-logo-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rse-sheffield-logo.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/rse.shef.ac.uk\/blog\/research_software_engineer_in_high_performance_computing\/\">Sheffield RSE website<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jobs.ac.uk\/job\/BBN749\/research-software-engineer-in-high-performance-computing-hpc-enabled-multi-scale-modelling\/\">jobs.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0for more details and perhaps consider coming to join us?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A job opportunity within the RSE Sheffield group is available under the job title of &#8220;Research Software Engineer in High Performance Computing (HPC) enabled Multi-Scale Modelling&#8221;. 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