About the role

  • Design and develop high-performance, maintainable, and reusable research software to support large-scale biological and biomedical data analysis.
  • Collaborate with researchers to translate scientific requirements into robust computational solutions and production-grade tools.
  • Build and optimize AI and scientific data processing pipelines, using modern workflow management systems (e.g., Nextflow, Snakemake, CWL, WDL, etc).
  • Implement software engineering best practices, including version control (Git, CI/CD), testing, continuous integration, and documentation.
  • Benchmark, profile, and optimize computational workloads for maximum performance, scalability, and efficient use of HPC and cloud environments.
  • Work closely with the HPC team to ensure seamless deployment and scaling of applications across on-premise and hybrid infrastructures.
  • Support reproducibility and transparency in research through containerization (Singularity, Docker, etc) and workflow orchestration (Nextflow, Kubernetes, OpenHPC, etc).
  • Contribute to long-term software and infrastructure strategy in alignment with the Head of Scientific Compute.
  • Additional responsibilities at the senior level: Collaborate with GBI staff to research novel compute platforms (e.g. novel ASICs, or Quantum Computers).
  • Lead research and development into novel scientific workflow technologies (such as cloud-aware workflow schedulers, scientific data management solutions, quantum algorithms, etc)
  • Develop APIs, services, and data interfaces that enable interoperability between systems and research platforms.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Engineering, or a related field (PhD desirable)
  • 3+ years (5+ years at the senior level) of professional experience in software engineering, preferably within a scientific or research environment.
  • Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary research teams to deliver computational tools that advance scientific goals.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining technical concepts to scientific audiences and non-specialists alike.
  • Proven track record of mentoring, collaboration, or technical leadership in research computing projects.
  • At the regular level: Experience working with workflow management systems (Nextflow, Snakemake, CWL, or WDL).
  • Experience integrating software into HPC or cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid systems).
  • Understanding of scientific computing, or data science workflows.
  • At the senior level: Familiarity with parallel and distributed computing frameworks and techniques (MPI, CUDA, OpenMP, etc).
  • Extensive experience working with workflow management systems (Nextflow, Snakemake, CWL, or WDL).
  • Experience with bioinformatics, computational biology, scientific computing, or data science workflows.
  • At all levels: Proficiency in one or more key programming languages (e.g., Python, Julia, C/C++, Java, or Rust).
  • Proven experience developing software for scientific research, data analysis, or computational biology.
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, testing, and containerization.

Benefits

  • Enhanced holiday pay
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Hospital Cash Plan
  • Therapy Services
  • Perk Box
  • Electrical Car Scheme

Job title

Research Software Engineer, Generative Biology

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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