Applications Consultant

Applications Consultant

Grade UE07: £41,064 – £48,822 per annum

EPCC, College of Science and Engineering

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed term: 3 years with possibility of extension

Up to 4 posts available

Join EPCC, the UK’s National Supercomputing Centre, in a highly technological and fast‑moving field. This role is for you if you enjoy understanding the problems other organisations face with AI, designing solutions, developing machine‑learning/AI pipelines and deploying these pipelines in production. You will have experience in programming languages such as Python, R, C++, software engineering, distributed infrastructure, data engineering, and machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensor Flow and LLM models.

You are motivated to learn new technologies and have prior experience interacting with external stakeholders to design, implement and deploy solutions.

• Understand and analyse the AI needs of external stakeholders.
• Design, develop and deploy scalable machine‑learning pipelines.
• Write clean, testable code and maintain documentation.
• Use version control, containerisation and orchestrations for productionisation.
• Collaborate with data engineers and business users to shape requirements.
• Stay current with emerging AI/ML technologies and integrate them where appropriate.

• Strong programming experience in Python, R or C++.
• Proficiency in software engineering practices (testing, version control, documentation).
• Experience with distributed infrastructure (scaling, containers).
• Data engineering knowledge (databases, streaming, MLops).
• Machine‑learning expertise (PyTorch, Tensor Flow, LLMs).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Self‑motivated and a quick learner.

Please submit a CV and a cover letter.

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work in a diverse and internationally recognised community.
• Comprehensive staff benefits including holiday entitlement, pension scheme, staff discounts, family‑friendly initiatives and flexible work options.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award, is a member of the Race Equality Charter and a Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champion. Please provide evidence of your right to work in the UK where required.

Closing date for applications: 15 January 2026 (11:59 pm GMT).

The University of Edinburgh is a world‑leading research‑intensive university dedicated to addressing tomorrow’s greatest challenges. From research to teaching and innovation it partners with academia, industry and local communities worldwide.

EPCC is the world’s leading super‑computing centre, part of the College of Science and Engineering. It collaborates with the Bayes Centre, Alan Turing Institute, Rosalind Franklin Institute and other national initiatives.