Research Software Engineer (10375)
Rosalind Franklin Institute
The Rosalind Franklin Institute (the Franklin) is a technology institute for life science, creating innovative technologies that transform our understanding of life. Our technologies, borne out of innovation in physical sciences, create collaborations and new avenues in life science which will lead to new therapeutics and advance our understanding of human biology.
As a Research Software Engineer at the Franklin, you will bring scientific knowledge and skills to deliver a specific research project and/or you will bring independent, creative science, or specific skills to a team delivering a project or program. Through this work, you will build scientific independence, develop new science and leadership skills, and establish a growing reputation externally.
We seek to recruit a Research Software Engineer to support our research in native ambient mass spectrometry, and specifically the project to develop three-dimensional protein atlases of a mouse brain through fusion of 2D ion images. The ideal candidate will have expertise in at least one of the following:
Managing and processing high dimensional datasets (4D or more) and experience of Next Generation File Formats.
Dealing with sparse scientific data and compression methods.
Interactive visualisation of volumetric datasets.
Experience of working with mass spectrometry data would be desirable
In this role, the Research Software Engineer will be responsible for developing tools for construction and visualisation of the brain atlas, including data handling pipelines, image registration, direct cloud native storage, interactive visualisation, adaption for visualisation hardware including new modalities. The postholder will collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to develop innovative solutions for improved mass spectrometry imaging of intact proteins and their assemblies in tissue and advancing integrative spatial and structural biology. The project will be hosted in the new Rosalind Franklin Institute facilities at Harwell but will also involve working with investigators across the Franklin, collaborator laboratories and with member institutes.