Newcastle University has an opening in its Research Software Engineering Team. We are looking for a senior software engineer with experience in GIS applications and project management to lead the software engineering work on the four-year Imago project.

Imago is a new ESRC data service, part of a family of data services recently funded by ESRC’s Smart Data Research UK programme. The Imagery Data Service (Imago) is led by the University of Liverpool in collaboration with Newcastle University and aims to radically transform the usability, utility, and usage of satellite imagery in social science, public health and policy making. Imago will develop data products in collaboration with data, distribution and application partners that will unlock the potential of satellite imagery to solve some of the most urgent challenges facing the UK – especially where environmental vulnerability, urban development and housing, and health and wellbeing are concerned.

You will have an MSc in a computationally based field (equivalent experience or close to completion), as well as proven experience of software development. Applications are welcome from both software development generalists and from researchers with inter-disciplinary technology-focused skills, which either complement or extend the existing research team.

If you are looking to apply your skills into research, we would love to hear from you.

The RSE Team’s goal is to transform research at Newcastle through the application of software engineering best practice. Its work spans research, teaching and innovation through engagement with external organisations. As a team, we work across the university and with every academic discipline. Whether this means scaling human cell analysis pipelines in the cloud, creating new digital editions to breathe new life into medieval manuscripts, generating near-real-time flood risk assessments, or working to develop decision support tools for organ transplantation – we do it all. 

We bring specialist programming expertise, modern development practices and engineering rigour to academic software. We provide expert software engineering consulting services to world-leading research teams and collaborate with scientists and scholars to build software to meet the next generation of research challenges.

The post is available as a fixed-term contract from the date of appointment to the end of the project in February 2029 and offers the opportunity for hybrid working. For full job description click here

For informal enquiries, please contact Mark Turner at mark.turner@ncl.ac.uk