Applications Developer

Application Developer – EPCC, College of Science and Engineering

bGrade UE06: £34,610 - £42,254 per annum

bFull-time: 35 hours per week

bFixed term: 3 years with possibility of extension

bUp to 4 posts available

Location:

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Join EPCC, the UK’s National Supercomputing Centre, in a highly technological and fast‑moving field. We are seeking up to four motivated Application Developers. This role is for you if you enjoy understanding the problems other organisations are trying to solve with AI, designing solutions, developing machine learning/AI pipelines, and deploying these pipelines in production.

• Understand what problems other organisations are trying to solve with AI and design solutions, develop machine learning/AI pipelines and deploy these pipelines in production.
• Demonstrated experience in programming languages such as Python, R, C++ and in software engineering (coding, testing frameworks, version control, documentation).
• Experience using distributed infrastructure (scaling, containers), data engineering (databases, streaming, MLops), and machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensor Flow, LLM models.
• Motivated to learn and apply new technologies, tools and methods.

• CV
• Cover letter

• Exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• Competitive salary.
• Diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive staff benefits, including generous holiday entitlement, defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family‑friendly initiatives and flexible work options.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of its commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role;

international applicants must be able to demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Closing date for applications: 14th January 2026. Closing time for applications is 11:59 p.m. GMT.

As a world‑leading research‑intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. From now until 2030 we will do that with a values‑led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

The College of Science and Engineering (CSE) is one of the largest and highest‑ranked STEM groupings in the UK. Headed by Professor Iain Gordon, CSE comprises seven Schools – Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Geo Sciences, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy – as well as the national supercomputing centre (EPCC) and the Bayes Centre for interdisciplinary data science and innovation. Most Schools are located 2 miles south of the city centre at the King’s Buildings, while Informatics, EPCC, Bayes and sections of Geo Sciences are located in the University’s Central Area near George Square.

The College has over 3,000 academic and support staff, and educates around 7,000 undergraduates, almost 1,500 taught postgraduates and more than 2,000 research students.