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AI Research Software Engineer

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton or Liverpool

Permanent

Full time (37 hours per week)

Who are we?

We are the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) - the UK’s leading institution for integrated coastal and deep ocean research. Through our ground-breaking research, collaboration, and game-changing innovation we work to gain a deeper understanding of our ocean, helping every living thing on our planet flourish.

We are made up of a dynamic and vibrant community focused on solving challenging long-term marine science problems, underpinning international and UK public policy, business and societal outcomes.

The ocean has the potential to provide the solutions to so many of the social, economic and environmental challenges we face worldwide. To truly harness the value of the ocean, we put ocean research, science and discovery at the heart of our culture.

Join us in shaping the future of oceanographic research and contribute your unique perspective to our organisation.

About the role

This role is part of NOC’s Digital Science function and, working alongside software engineers, scientists, and designers it will contribute to create the “NOC of the future”.

We are seeking a purpose-driven AI expert who wants to advance marine and environmental sciences by developing novel and useful AI research infrastructure and models.

Our team is formed by over 30 Research Software Engineers, AI and Data scientists, and UI/UX experts. We design and develop research capabilities (e.g. pipelines, interfaces, applications), provide training, and establish collaborations to accelerate innovation across NOC and the wider international oceanographic community.

Our projects encompass topics such as processing advance seafloor imaging, frameworks for training AI models, global ocean modelling, interactive visualisation, robotic autonomous systems, and Digital Twins.

This role provides excellent opportunities to bring AI leadership to accelerate innovation and purpose-driven research across the organisation.

The role will be part of NOC’s Software Engineering and AI team and provides opportunities for leading teams and learn a wide variety of skills working across ocean-related, multi-disciplinary, and international communities.

Please note while we are using the job title ‘AI Research Software Engineer’ for the purposes of advertising, the formal job title at NOC will be ‘Senior Research Scientist in AI and Data Science’.

About you

We are looking for an exceptional candidate with experience of developing AI, data science infrastructure, and AI models in a research environment.

Working at a senior level, you will engage widely to embed AI across NOC ocean observations and research value chain, ensuring that the science NOC does has maximum societal impact.

You will have a strong track record of working in AI in environmental sciences and experience of collaborative work.

Why NOC?

We offer a generous set of benefits, including:

• 30 days contractual annual leave, plus 3.5 extra closure days and bank holidays
• a 10% employer contribution pension scheme (with a 15% NI saving on employee contributions made above 5%, if in the salary sacrifice scheme)
• financial support for relocation
• a salary sacrifice scheme for electric / hybrid vehicles (qualifying period applies)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme, offering free and anonymous support on mental, physical, emotional, health and financial issues
• access to a flexible benefits portal offering online discounts, cashback and eGift cards
• a Cycle2
  
  Work scheme allowing employees to acquire bikes and accessories
• a great working environment with a number of social events, including summer and Christmas celebrations
• we are proud to be a Living Wage…