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Closed (var locations): Gov UK, Senior Policy Advisor, International Partnerships, AI Safety Institute, £50.3k, closed 20 Dec 2023

This job (closed) is not a computer science job per se, in that there’s no technical stuff like programming involved. It’s to support the UK’s recently created AI Safety Institute – helping people to understand the risks as well as the benefits of AI.

The ad below mentions ‘red teaming’ (see more on that).

GOV UK Civil Service Jobs / Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
AI Safety Institute
Senior Policy Advisor, International Partnerships
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1891216

Job closed on 20 December 2023.

Location

Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London

About the job

Job summary

AI Safety Institute

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) over the last decade have been impactful, rapid, and unpredictable. Today, harnessing AI is an opportunity that could be transformational for the UK and the rest of the world. Advanced AI systems have the potential to drive economic growth and productivity, boost health and well-being, improve public services, and increase security.

The UK government is determined to seize these opportunities. In September, we announced Isambard AI as the UK AI Research Resource, which will be one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers purpose-built for AI. The National Health Service (NHS) is running trials to help clinicians identify breast cancer sooner by using AI. In the workplace, AI promises to free us from routine tasks, giving teachers more time to teach and police officers more time to tackle crime. There is a world of opportunity for the UK that we will explore.

But advanced AI systems also pose significant risks, as detailed in the government’s paper on Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI published in October. AI can be misused – this could include using AI to generate disinformation, conduct sophisticated cyber-attacks or help develop chemical weapons. AI can cause societal harms – there have been examples of AI chatbots encouraging harmful actions, promoting skewed or radical views, and providing biased advice. AI generated content that is highly realistic but false could reduce public trust in information. Some experts are concerned that humanity could lose control of advanced systems, with potentially catastrophic and permanent consequences. We will only unlock the benefits of AI if we can manage these risks. At present, our ability to develop powerful systems outpaces our ability to make them safe. The first step is to better understand the capabilities and risks of these advanced AI systems. This will then inform our regulatory framework for AI, so we ensure AI is developed and deployed safely and responsibly.

The UK is taking a leading role in driving this conversation forward internationally. We launched the Frontier AI Taskforce – the first state body dedicated to the safety of advanced AI, investing more than any other nation – and hosted the world’s first major AI Safety Summit. Responsible government action in an area as new and fast-paced as advanced AI requires governments to develop their own sophisticated technical and socio-technical expertise.

The Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) is the next step in this process. It will advance the world’s knowledge of AI safety by carefully examining, evaluating, and testing new types of AI, so that we understand what each new model is capable of. It will conduct fundamental research on how to keep people safe in the face of fast and unpredictable progress in AI. The Institute will make its work available to the world, enabling an effective global response to the opportunities and risks of advanced AI.

What we Value:

Diverse Perspectives: We believe that a range of experiences and backgrounds is essential to our success. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us in this crucial mission.
Collaborative Spirit: We thrive on teamwork and open collaboration, valuing every contribution, big or small.
Innovation and Impact: We are dedicated to making a real-world difference in the field of frontier AI safety and capability, and we encourage innovative thinking and bold ideas.

This is a once-in-a-generation moment, and these roles will sit at the heart of the team. Joining the team represents a unique opportunity to deliver the vision for a constantly evolving area of UK policy. We are looking for applicants with an enthusiasm for supporting the Institute’s mission while embodying our values.

The risks arising from AI are inherently global in nature and action to address them requires international cooperation. World leaders and major AI companies expressed their support for the AI Safety Institute (AISI) at the AI Safety Summit. Already, the UK has agreed two partnerships: with the US AI Safety Institute, and with the Government of Singapore to collaborate on AI safety testing – two of the world’s biggest AI powers.

In this role you will work as part of a high functioning, friendly team to establish AISI as an international hub for AI Safety and AI Safety governance. This will embed the Institute at an international level, working with countries and industry, and ensure that AISI is the lynch pin in an international network of like-minded organisations. This will result in an internationalisation that delivers tangible benefits in terms of AI Safety research and evaluation.

Job description

You will have a leadership role within the AISI International Partnerships team and will oversee the design and implementation of initiatives to support the delivery of the internationalisation of the Institute and help build its International Partnerships.

Responsibilities:

Raising the international footprint of the AISI. This would involve working with colleagues from across the Department, with FCDO, and others, to ensure that the AISI is directing the global debate on AI safety, as the eminent international AI Safety Institute. This will include identifying and delivering opportunities to showcase its capabilities, and influence policy making, including at major international fora (e.g. the Korea AI Safety Summit).
Team leadership and relationship building. Here you would be managing a team and ensuring that they, and you, are building relationships across UK Government, with multilateral organisations and with the AISI’s partners to raise the saliency of AI safety and ensure that AISI’s engagement is helping deliver broader HM Government objectives.
Leading the delivery of international partnerships for the Institute, building relationships with other countries helping them to develop their AI safety capacity and capabilities. This could involve research and collaboration with the AISI’s specialist Research Unit to identify how and where AISI can support and influence other countries ambitions.
Set and implement the strategy for further international partnerships and collaboration for the Institute, working in collaboration with FCDO, wider DSIT colleagues and analysts to inform our international priorities and strategy.
Lead the delivery of international meetings, engagement and events on behalf of AISI. This could include attendance at summits or international forums; running our own events to advance AISI missions (e.g. hosting events for the purposes of red teaming or information sharing with international stakeholders); and bilateral meetings.

Person specification

Essential criteria

Expert leadership skills, strong organisational skills, with the ability to maintain a high quality of service in a fast-paced environment.
Strategic skills – you are able to step back and ‘see the big picture’ in your work, which will be critical to ensure our activities are aligned with our strategic goals – and you have a genuine interest in geopolitics, AI safety and international AI governance.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport at all levels, maintaining productive working relationships
A can do attitude, able to work effectively at pace, make decisions in the face of competing priorities, and remain calm and resilient under pressure.
Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to provide confident, constructive challenge to Senior stakeholders.
To have a proactive approach and a focus on continuous improvement of self and service, with an appetite to work with others to simplify processes and increase efficiency.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Leadership
Delivering at Pace
Seeing the Big Picture
Working Together

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 750 words) to give us examples of how your skills and experience match the essential criteria needed for this role. Consider giving an example for each bullet point, in the ‘Who you are’ section and use work you have completed to demonstrate how you meet each one.

Applications will be sifted on the CV and personal statement.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The interview will be a blend of questions about Behaviours and Strengths needed for the role.

We highly recommend learning about Success Profiles and using the Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection (STARR) framework when structuring your answers. In your examples you should include evidence on ‘how’ you demonstrated the requirements and the impact of your work, as well as ‘what’ you did.

[Job] QMUL, Post-Doc Data Scientist, London (Charterhouse Sq), £39.8-46.8, clos 25 Oct 2022

Date posted: 12 October 2022

QMUL – Queen Mary University of London
Post Doctoral Data Scientist
https://ig24.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_qmul01.asp?newms=jj&id=156516&newlang=1
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/7649.html

Permanent copy of job description: https://techdevjobs.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/qmul30402-postdoctoral-data-scientist-job-profile-cem.docx

For more jobs like this, visit https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/ and type data into the search bar.

Post Doctoral means “has a PhD” or equivalent.

Ref: QMUL30402
Region: London
Main Site: Charterhouse Square
QMUL Faculty: School Of Medicine & Dentistry, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Centre for Evaluation & Methods
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time [note ad also says part time, below]
Salary: Grade 5, in the range of £39,815 – £46,843 per annum (pro-rata),

Job Advert

About the Role

The post-holder will work in the Centre for Evaluation and Methods (CEM). CEM is a new and thriving research centre that incorporates a number of collaborative units who work closely together to deliver outstanding research based on their combined and complementary research strengths. The post-holder will contribute in particular to Barts Clinical Trials Unit.

The postdoctoral data scientist will lead research into long-term risk of breast cancer based on digital mammography. Funding is available for this post until 31 January 2024.

Job purpose: Develop an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm based on digital mammograms, for residual lifetime risk of breast cancer in women who are found to be without breast cancer at their mammography screening visit. Develop an AI algorithm to identify which mammograms are at a higher risk of failure of the screening test due to masking of the cancer from mammographic density. Externally validate these algorithms and others developed at Warwick and from collaborators.

About You

The postholder will have a PhD in a related quantitative field, understanding of the research process, experience in programming languages (e.g. C, C++, python, R) and machine learning or statistical modelling methods. They will be able to adapt to the needs of the role, have strong communication skills, analytical and interpretive skills.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Charterhouse Square Campus in London. It is full time/part time (minimum 17.5 hours per week), fixed term appointment for 14.5 months, with an expected start date of mid-November 2022. The starting salary will be Grade 5, in the range of £39,815 – £46,843 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

The School of Medicine holds a Silver Athena SWAN Award. We are committed to the equality of opportunities and to advancing women’s careers. We have policies to support staff returning from long-term absence, for flexible arrangements for staff with parental responsibilities and for childcare support. As part of the School’s commitment to the Athena SWAN principles we strongly encourage applications from women.

[See the page linked above for info on how to apply or have informal chats about the job.]

Vaguely related info

While completely unrelated to the job I thought you might like to read about another way in which computer science (in this case machine learning) is helping people tackle cancer.

How “the most advanced machine learning approach” is finding new cancer-causing mutational signatures (12 October 2022) Cancer Research UK news.

Job x 3, NW Eng, SW Eng, York&Humber, RNIB, Employment Technology Advisor – Into Work, £27.7k, clos 16 Aug 2022

Date posted: 13 August 2022

RNIB
Employment Technology Advisor
https://www.rnib.org.uk/who-we-are/jobs-rnib – click on Current Vacancies then search for the job name, 3 will appear.

North West England – REQ0001373
South West England – REQ0001374 – example given below
Yorkshire and Humberside – REQ0001375

Permanent copy of job description: Employment Technology Advisor – Into Work – JD Final v2

Location: South West England
Salary: £27,715 per annum (2 year fixed term)
Job reference: REQ0001374
Application closing date: 16/08/2022
Package: 26 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), which increase with service. Excellent pension schemes
Contractual hours: 36
Basis: Full time

Job description

RNIB’s Technology for Life service, provide advice, support, training and grants for our customers so that they can access and use technology to live independent, connected lives.

We are looking for an experienced Technology Trainer to contribute to the work of the RNIBs’ technology and employment team’s strategy to support more Blind and Partially Sighted Job Seekers into work.

This will be a full time role in the South West area, on a 2 year fixed term contact (with the possibility of extension).

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll develop and deliver technology training programmes, and provide technology information, advice and guidance to blind and partially sighted jobseekers to support individuals gain the ICT knowledge, skills and confidence in securing and sustaining employment.

To deliver, as required, one-to-one or group assistive technology training to blind and partially sighted people in the workplace or other venue, to secure and sustain employment.
To provide specialist advice to individuals and employers, based on knowledge of accessible technologies and mainstream ICT to ensure workplace technology supports the customer.
To provide onsite workplace support including identifying and assessing processes and supporting methodology, for Blind and Partially Sighted people during work placements and employment.

(The three examples above come from the Word document linked enough, I just picked the first 3 to illustrate what the job involves).

Who We’re Looking For

You’ll have experience of supporting others; an ability to find solutions, and a commitment to attention to detail. You’ll need excellent customer service skills and will be the first point of contact for our customers with technology queries enabling individuals to feel confident with ICT and assistive technologies as they enter the workplace.

What We Offer

In exchange we offer a competitive salary, a stimulating and supportive working environment and a benefits package including:

26 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), which increase with service.
An excellent pension scheme
Flexible working
Staff discount schemes

How To Apply

If you would like to apply for this great job opportunity, please review the documents linked below [edit: above], then select “Apply Online” at the bottom of this page [the page(s) linked above] and complete our application form, telling us how you meet the Specialist Skills, Knowledge and Experience criteria (Section 1 of the person specification in the Job Description). Guidance for completion can be found on each page of the application form.

Additional Information

We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and we’re here for everyone affected by sight loss. Working for us means working for one of the UK’s biggest charities, supporting almost two million people living with sight loss in the UK.

RNIB is leading the creation of a world where there are no barriers for people with sight loss. One of our key priorities is to ask people to see sight loss differently, reversing inaccurate perceptions and changing public behaviours so everyone expects equal participation from people with sight loss and the creation of a fully accessible society.

This Appointment may be subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Check and relevant Barred Lists check, where appropriate.

One of our core values is to be led by blind and partially sighted people and we involve our customers in recruitment. Please be advised that your anonymised application may be shared internally with those involved in the recruitment process.

RNIB is committed to equality of opportunity and to promoting and celebrating the diversity of its staff and volunteers. We welcome everyone’s contribution and are proud of our status as a Disability Confident Leader. We welcome applications from people with sight loss and talented people from all sections of the community who share our values.

Please note, we do reserve the right to close this role early in the event of a high number of applications.

[Job] London: Cancer Research UK, Snr Software Engineer (Full Stack), £50-60k, clos 21 Aug 2022

Date posted: 13 August 2022

Cancer Research UK
Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
https://cancerresearchuk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Stratford-2-Redman-Place/Senior-Full-Stack-Software-Engineer–Science–Information-and-Corporate-Operations-_R021086

Permanent copy of candidate pack: Senior Full Stack Engineer (S&I, COO) Candidate Pack (1)

Closing: 23:55, 21 August 2022.
Location: London – Stratford (2 Redman Place)
Full-time
R021086

We’re happy to discuss flexible and remote working options.
Location: Stratford based (with high flexibility, office based 1-2 days per week or work remotely)

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 per annum dependent on experience

Closing date: 23:55 on the 21st August- please do not delay applying as we will be shortlisting on application.

Application process: In our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, we operate an anonymized shortlisting process. Please ensure that you have completed the work history section of the application form and answered all application questions. CVs are required for all applications; however, they will not be reviewed until interview stage.

Are you a Software Engineer looking for exposure to a diverse range of products within an organization that has an ambitious engineering strategy?

It’s an exciting time to join the Technology team at Cancer Research UK (CRUK), our teams are now aligned to product portfolios ensuring we can deliver the best digital products and solutions to enable our pioneering work on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer.

We’re searching for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer who can take our digital products to the next level by partnering with our product teams to develop our software packages, and high-quality code; ensure best practice, and deliver technical solutions. In this role, you will be looking after two product portfolios.

If you have experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS, and PHP and wish to be part of our journey in curing all cancers, please apply here.

Want to know more? Check out our candidate pack.

What will I be doing?

Delivering specific packages of development for software applications within our Science & Information (SIC) and Corporate Operations (COO) product teams, and running these applications in production.
Applying Lean and Agile principles to develop high-quality code that has minimal bugs, adheres to CRUK standards, and is highly supportable
Working either independently or in collaboration with Solution Architects to design new solutions in line with the Software Engineering strategy.
Working autonomously to deliver backlog items for an existing product.
Work in collaboration with Product Managers, Service Designers, UX Designers, Business Analysts etc to identify user needs, discuss capabilities and iteratively design solutions
Supporting the development of more junior software engineers through mentoring

What we’re looking for
Essential

Experienced Software Engineer with experience in TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS, PHP
Ability to write clean, readable, and properly tested code based on tried and tested design patterns.
Ability and willingness to learn new languages, frameworks and tools.
Experience building modern user interfaces and single page applications using the React/NextJS ecosystem. Experience developing APIs and other back-end components using Node.js and PHP
Experience in acting as a technical lead in a team, starting the development of new features from scratch, defining the overall solution, and reviewing more junior engineers’ work

Desirable

Some experience with cloud-native architecture and AWS services, various SQL and noSQL databases, as well as queues such as SQS
Some experience in running critical services in production and designing highly-available, scalable and secure solutions

Cancer Research UK’s Technology team is proud to be part of the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) for our efforts in driving equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. Our vision is a digital world accessible to all, and we have always sought to draw from a diverse pool of talent and maintain an inclusive working environment.

(More details at the job ad on the site linked at the top of this post).

Related jobs

Job: London (Stratford): Cancer Research UK, Snr Software Engineer, £50-60k, clos 17 Jan 2021

[CLOSED] Job, Oxford: DataLab Uni of Oxf, Software devs x2 (Python & Frontend/UI), £41.5-54.1k, CLOSED 11 Jan 2021

Date posted: 8 August 2022 (job closed in 2021)

This post pinched wholesale from the DataLab blog 🙂

Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
formerly DataLab, University of Oxford
Software Developers (2 posts: Python and Frontend/UI
https://www.thedatalab.org/blog/2020/12/184/were-hiring-software-developers-x-2/

🚨JOBS ALERT🚨Want to help make sure #DataSavesLives? Want to help bring NHS analytics into the 21st Century? Want to work with an awesome, nimble, & friendly multi-disciplinary team? Of course you do! Then come & work with us in @EBMDataLab on @OpenSafely 🧵

— Jess Morley (@jessRmorley) December 17, 2020

Job Title: Software Developers (2 posts: Python and Frontend/UI).
Salary: £41,526 – £54,131 pa, with the possibility of a market supplement up to £2869.
Contract: fixed term 18 months.
Hours: Up to full-time, flexible and part-time working acceptable.
Closing date: noon on Monday 11 January 2021.
Interview date: 27/28th January 2021.
Vacancy ID: 148913.
Apply: https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/ > search all jobs > search by “DataLab” or vacancy ID

The DataLab at University of Oxford are offering two career-defining opportunities to work on new, significant, open source research platforms, initially developed for the COVID19 crisis.

We are a small, productive, very fast-moving team of software developers, academics, and clinicians, all pooling skills and knowledge to build platforms and tools as well as traditional academic papers. Our vision is to make it easy and enjoyable to do secure, reproducible clinical analytics, and to radically democratise research access to the globally-important datasets hosted within the NHS.

Our work is influential: it features in high-profile mainstream media stories, drives the agenda at parliamentary committees is regularly referenced in SAGE meetings, and is published in a wide range of very high impact journals. We are currently focussing on building OpenSAFELY: an innovative, open source research environment which places patient privacy first. You can read a summary of press coverage on the OpenSAFELY website. We don’t just produce papers and tools; we advocate for better use of software, including our campaign for all research to share their code.

Two developer posts are available:

Python Developer: responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining new functionality, data structures, and protocols across the platform. This post requires expertise in Python, web technologies and the usual Open Source tooling, e.g. git, code reviews, continuous integration
User-focussed: Frontend/UI developer: responsible for designing and implementing new and existing user experiences across the platform. This post requires expertise in HTML, Javascript, and user interface design, plus all the usual Open Source tooling, e.g. git, code reviews, continuous integration

The team is based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, although currently working mostly remotely. Post-pandemic, the role can continue to be remote, though you should expect to travel to Oxford from time to time, and as such we are looking for UK-based candidates. We can offer flexible working hours, and the role can be part time (at least 3 days a week) or full time.

We encourage applications from groups that are under-represented in software engineering to apply, and we welcome applications from those who don’t have a traditional tech/academic background.

The package includes generous holiday, pension and associated benefits. We encourage experienced candidates who can earn more than this in other sectors to apply, so we can sell you the benefits of working in such a productive team on such interesting and important work.

Responsibilities

Specific duties will include:

Develop appropriate and effective technical solutions / designs as required across various projects.
Manage own work and administrative activities. This involves small scale project management, to coordinate multiple aspects of work to meet deadlines.
Take a lead role in the design, coding, testing and documentation of software.
Identify opportunities for improvement and contribute suggestions for change.
Contribute to optimising team collaboration, and share lessons learned.
Provide training, technical advice, mentorship or coaching to non-engineering colleagues.
Investigate, select/develop, and deploy scalable and robust frameworks for user-facing tools and internal devops procedures.
Developers Python and Frontend UI job description2.doc 3.
Work flexibly and adaptively to address emerging priorities.
Work with all researchers and other group members to further the core mission of developing high-impact open tools.
Contribute to research publications and technical reports in health research informatics.
Communicate via all suitable mediums with end users and/or staff in regards to any system changes, queries, or issues.

Selection criteria:

Demonstrate expertise in Python, web technologies, and the usual Open Source tooling, e.g. git, code reviews, continuous integration (for the Python Developer role).
Demonstrate expertise in HTML, Javascript, and user interface design, plus all the usual Open Source tooling, e.g. git, code reviews, continuous integration (for the Frontend/UI Developer role).
Self-motivated and able to demonstrate strategic thinking and hands-on engineering skills.
Demonstrate statistical or data processing experience, academic or commercial, and knowledge of data science tools and frameworks.
Strong interpersonal skills and able to contribute to a supportive, helpful culture and work very closely with end users.
Have a natural curiosity about topics outside their normal area of expertise.
Enjoy working independently, in a small team, with a light management touch.
Have an enthusiasm for solving problems in medical informatics.
Be happy switching between quite different domains – we take joint responsibility for all our outputs and activities.
Able to take responsibility for complex apps: this means new features, maintenance and devops.
Have a “leave it better than you found it” mentality, and be willing to work with and improve on code you did not originally write.
A demonstrable track record of delivering the cultural and operational changes required to grow a product suite.

[Job] London: Asthma UK, Health Data Analyst, £35-37k, clos 22 August 2022

Date posted: 8 August 2022

Asthma + Lung UK (formerly Asthma UK, British Lung Foundation)
Health Data Analyst
https://www.cloudonlinerecruitment.co.uk/asthmauk/VacancyDetails.aspx?FromSearch=True&MenuID=6Dqy3cKIDOg=&VacancyID=51

Permanent copy of job description: Health-Data-Analyst-Job-Description

Salary: £35,000 – £37,000 per annum + benefits
Location: Office Based (London)
Level: Assistant/Officer
Deadline: 22/08/2022 09:00
Hours: 35.00
Benefits: Outlined in job description
Job Type: Permanent

A great opportunity has risen for a passionate Health Data Analyst to support our ambitious five-year strategy where insight, data and analysis will play a key role in campaigning for and improving the lives of people with lung conditions.

Asthma + Lung UK is the only charity in the UK fighting for everyone with a lung condition, aiming for a world where everyone can breathe with healthy lungs. We fund cutting-edge research, provide advice and support for the 12 million people who will get a lung condition during their lifetime. We also campaign for clean air and for better NHS diagnosis and treatment.

You will collate and analyse data to find new insight on the impact of lung conditions and communicate this to colleagues, stakeholders and people with lung conditions. You will develop and manage research analysis projects designed to understand health status of people with lung conditions. You will be an expert in using data and want to solve problems with it.

You will have advanced analysis and research skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to explain complex things in a compelling and accessible way. You will be passionate about finding stories and insight in data.

You will interact with colleagues at all levels across the organisation and have a great opportunity to develop your analysis skillset.

[Job] London: Imperial College, RA (Software Engineer), £36.9-49.2k, clos 10 August 2022

Date posted: 5 August 2022

Imperial College
Research Assistant / Associate (Software Engineer)
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG02217/research-assistant-associate-software-engineer
Salary £36,694* – £49,210 plus benefits

Permanent copy of the job description: JD – RSE RA – Imperial College July 2022

**Candidates close to completion of their PhD will be initially appointed as a Research Assistant within the salary range £36,694 – £39,888 per annum.

While machine-leaning enabled systems have witnessed huge advances in recent years, concerns surrounding their adequacy and safety have also grown, for instance in the context of high-risk, decision making. The inclusion of human agents in their design (to provide oversight and control) has been often considered as a reasonable solution for overcoming such concerns. However, ensuring the safe design for human-in-the-loop machine-leaning…
Job listing information

Reference ENG02217
Date posted 15 July 2022
Closing date 10 August 2022

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking a research software engineer to support the design and development of a human-in-the-loop machine-leaning enabled systems for deployment in the Policing domain. The post-holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team investigating ML-enabled systems for tackling online child sex offending. The post-holder will thus have the opportunity to develop her/his expertise on dissemination of research through interactions with other researchers in Forensic Psychology and Linguistics, and with end-users.

The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of academics and researchers from Aston University, University of Bath, University of Birmingham and Imperial College London.

Imperial College London is a world-class university with a mission to benefit society through excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business. According to recent REF 2021, the College ranked top in the UK overall – with a greater proportion of 4* “world-leading” research than any other UK university. Imperial ranked first in the UK for research outputs, first in the UK for research environment, and first for research impact among Russell Group universities. With the highest research grant income of any UK university, Imperial also has a long and successful track-record of technology development and commercialization.

The Department of Computing at Imperial College London is a leading department of Computer Science among UK Universities. The department has achieved top results in each of the research assessment exercises undertaken by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. There are over fifty academic staff members actively involved in research, creating a lively and stimulating atmosphere. The department is located in central London, next to Hyde Park and the museums of South Kensington.

Duties and responsibilities

- To develop software solutions fit for non-expert use.

- To work with the team and crime analyst end-users towards a safe, trusted and regulatory-compliant maintainable software solution.

- Identify and capture user requirements and deliver solutions to ensure they are met

- Re-use existing knowledge and software to address novel research challenges, building prototypes where appropriate

- Collaboratively select appropriate technology and design systems for reliability and maintainability

- Employ best-practice approaches to software engineering, including testing, issue tracking and version control

- Work closely with other developers and domain experts

- Develop and/or deploy tools, infrastructure and approaches for natural language processing and machine learning

- Develop for web-based platforms using the most relevant tools and languages e.g., JSON, XML, java-script

- Write and maintain documentation to support ongoing use and development of the software
- Maintain highly organised and accurate record of experimental work

The post-holder will liaise closely with stakeholders and researchers to understand their requirements before working with them and other members of the team to guide the design and implement appropriate solutions. She/he will be expected to take responsibility for their own work and routinely make technical decisions.

Essential requirements

- At Research Assistant Level – Undergraduate degree (or equivalent) or Masters degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

- At Research Associate Level – A PhD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant area

- Experience of analyzing, researching and solving complex programming problems

- Demonstrable knowledge of languages commonly used for research computing: Python and R or MATLAB

- Demonstrable knowledge of and development experience for cloud computing platforms including AWS.

- Full-cycle software development, including design, implementation and deployment

- Significant involvement in a least one substantial software project using relevant technologies

- Knowledge of best-practice techniques for software development including testing, build automation and continuous deployment, and the use of containers.

[Job] London/Gravesend: Port of London Authority, Analyst, £37.6k, clos 12 August 2022

Date posted: 5 August 2022

This is a job for someone with good Excel skills, rather than a programming job – but the intention of this blog is to showcase a range of different types of jobs that use computers.

PLA – Port of London Authority
Analyst
https://www.pla.co.uk/Analyst
Permanent copy of job description: AnalystJDJuly22

Job title: Analyst
Department: Finance (Commercial Team)
Reporting to: Business Analyst
Grade: 7
Salary: starting at £37,565 per annum
Base: Between Gravesend and London
Closing date: 12 August 2022
Interview date: TBC

“Do you enjoy interrogating data to find hidden insights to increase trade and develop business awareness? We are seeking a talented data analyst with a highly analytical mindset and proven track record preferably in a data driven analysis role. The ideal candidate should be educated to graduate level with excellent IT skills, particularly in Excel. They should have a keen eye for detail and the ability to select, query and construct datasets to produce visualisations and communicate outcomes to all levels of the business.”

[Job] London, Full Stack Engineer (FinOps), £140k, clos 5 August 2022

Date posted: 10 July 2022

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Unknown employer (Via Referment)
Full Stack Engineer (BH-912)
https://www.aptrack.co/uap/AAAFeAAPckoCOs9O/
Via: https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/9635298

Referment are working with a technology driven hedge fund who are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to work in their FinOps team in London. The company are going through an exciting period of growth and the role will involve building and transforming a number of financial systems across treasury, operations, reconciliation and accountancy for the fund.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join a team that is transforming the technology stack into modern technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka and Flink using a Microservices architecture approach. Extensive experience with C#, .Net and exposure to web development will all be important for this role as well as having experience working on large, complex financial systems.

Key Requirements:

Extensive experience with C#, .Net and .Net Core development
Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker and Openshift
Knowledge of Javascript Web Languages such as React/Angular etc.
Degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent subject
Experience working on large, complex financial systems (buy side experience desirable)

* You must be eligible to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship

[Job, 4mo contract] London or Glasgow: Morgan Hunt, Full Stack Developer, £500-600 per day

Date posted: 10 July 2022

Morgan Hunt
Full Stack Developer
https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=SmFjay5GcmFuY2V5Ljc1MzYyLjEwNjMzQG1vcmdhbmh1bnQuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t
Via: https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/9653215

Reference: CR/009911
Type: Contract
Location: City of London, England
Industry: IT
Phone: 020 7419 8900

We have a current opportunity for a Full Stack Developer on a contract basis. The position will be based in Glasgow or London with a well established public sector organisation.

Role Responsibilities

Lead a team of developers during the development of the companies new environmental scheme
Develop and support applications in accordance to scheme requirements
Lead and manage technical development and the development team
Implement new technologies
Collaborate with the Delivery Manager and Product Manager
Suggest and maintain improvements

Role Requirements

Experience as a Microsoft Software Developer
.Net (C#) history
SQL Server knowledge
Understanding of Continuous Integration
History of Full Stack Development

Role Details

4 month contract
Glasgow or London based
Hybrid Working-must attend the office once a week
£500-£600 per day
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