Software Developer Industrial Placement - Advanced Research Computing

Software Developer Industrial Placement Year in Industry Placement - Advanced Research Computing (ARC) SALARY: £24,785 per annum JOB TYPE: Full-Time, 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract These insights will speed up the discovery of new medicines, help find new diagnostics and contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and disease. Our Science Strategy seeks to focus the Franklin s research and unite our researchers around our Technology Innovation Challenges and Life Science Challenges. We are offering a Year in Industry placement for a student interested in digital research infrastructure, data systems, and research-enabling technologies. This role will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to work on real-world projects that support researchers, improve data quality, and enhance infrastructure usability. Examples of potential project areas: Tools to assess and improve metadata quality in line with FAIR principles. Pipelines to extract structured metadata from semi-structured data sources using LLMs. Projects are flexible and will be shaped to match the successful candidate's skills and learning objectives. Designing and developing software tools to support research workflows. Working with data, metadata, and research infrastructure systems. Deliver a presentation or demonstration of your project outcomes. Hands-on experience working with real research infrastructure systems. Data-intensive and research-driven environments. Experience designing software for non-technical users. Insight into how infrastructure supports scientific research. You must currently be an undergraduate student at a university in the United Kingdom, pursuing a computer science or related course. You must be enrolled into a degree which allows you to work for a Year in Industry as a placement year. You must have the legal right to work in the UK. International students studying full-time in the UK at UK universities may apply, provided they can demonstrate that undertaking a 'year in industry' placement is a formal part of their undergraduate programme and that their student visa or pre-settled/settled status allows them to undertake full-time paid work for one year. This job description set outs the skills and experience we believe are needed to be able to do this job but, research also tells us women are much more likely than men to take this list of requirements as absolute and self-select out of the process. 25 days holidays plus bank holidays and Christmas holiday shutdown ~ Generous pension scheme (employer s contribution currently up to 18%) ~ Group Life Assurance (also known as Group Life Insurance or Death in Service) ~ Buying and Selling Annual Leave ~ Workplace Nursery Salary Sacrifice Scheme ~ Hub building with state-of-the-art laboratories ~ Hybrid and flexible working ~ Training and development opportunities for staff at all levels ~ Bus pass discount scheme and good transport links to Oxford and surrounding areas ~ Cycle to Work Scheme ~ Access to employee discount platform (Perkbox) ~ Occupational Health and wellbeing support including Employee Assistance (24/7 support and counselling) ~ Health Cash Plan ~ Subsidised canteen and food outlets on campus ~ Free on-site parking ~ Campus location in beautiful countryside with social and sports clubs open to staff The Franklin s underlying aim is to produce the best science for research today, and this means resolutely embracing a diverse team, who have a wide range of experiences, skills and knowledge to push forward on the innovative work our institution delivers. For further information, view our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every applicant has an equal opportunity to showcase their talents and abilities. Please note that whilst we normally welcome applications from all around the world, students studying for degrees at universities outside the UK are not eligible for this programme.