Postdoctoral Research Associate or Research - Durham, United Kingdom - Durham University

Durham University

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Postdoctoral Research Associate or Research Associate in Computer Science
(Job Number
: )**Department of Computer Science

Grade 6/7:

Grade 6: £29,605
£36,024 per annum, Grade 7: £37,099
£44,263 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

Contract Duration:
up to 10 months

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Working Arrangements:

We are undertaking a hybrid pilot looking at how best our staff can work flexibly and on and off campus.

Closing Date: 09-May-2024, 5:59:00 PM

Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement:
Not Applicable.

Working at Durham University

A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a warm and friendly place to work, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other.

As one of the UK's leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career.

The University is located within a beautiful historic city, home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and surrounded by stunning countryside.

Our talented scholars and researchers from around the world are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

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Together, we celebrate difference, value one another and are each responsible for creating an inclusive community that is respectful and fair for all.

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The Department

The Department of Computer Science is one of Durham's newest departments and hosts a scientific computing (SciComp) research group, bringing researchers together which are scattered over many departments in other universities.

Among its core mission is training and research around high-performance computing and data analysis algorithms.

Durham's directorate of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is a centralised division which provides supercomputing resources as well as software development expertise to all faculties and departments at Durham.

The Role

In close collaboration with the PI, the applicant will identify tasks and software components that are mission-critical for the underlying research (such as components which consume too much compute time and need to be ported to GPUs, third-party components that should be coupled, improved postprocessing scripts, or support for novel input file formats for new experiments) and implement these software blocks independently.

The applicant will be embedded into a team of researchers, all contributing multiple software building blocks to the overall compute ecosystem.

The delivered software will directly be used by collaboration partners - primarily in their earthquake and gravitational wave simulation codes.

Key responsibilities:

At Grade 6:

To understand and convey information which needs careful explanation to the team or group of people through presentations, discussions and meetings which contribute to the production of research reports and publications, and notably software releases.
To write up results of research work, present information on research progress and outcomes to bodies supervising research in a clear and accurate manner. Examples are reports on software performance, highquality software documentation or the delivery of unit and system tests.
To deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines by discussing with the Principal Investigator or Grantholder and offering creative or innovative solutions.
To liaise with research colleagues (in particular users of the software) and make internal and external contacts to develop knowledge and understanding to form relationships for future research collaboration.
To assist in contributing to support student projects and new colleagues on the use of research methods and equipment.
To contribute to fostering a collegial and respectful working environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect.
To engage in wider citizenship to support the department and wider discipline.
To engage in continuing professional development by attending relevant training and development courses.

At Grade 7: