Research Software Engineer

The Faculty of Science seeks to appoint a Research SoftwareEngineer in order to support staff and students in raising skills inscientific programming and software project management, curateand maintain large data assets, and support online teaching andclass testing applications. Based within the Faculty of Science,the postholder will work closely with researchers across theFaculty, with the opportunity to be involved in research coveringthe breadth of the Sciences where coding expertise is required,In addition, the post will assist the Head of IT in maintaining theFaculty’s portfolio of in-house software.

This post will be a key member of the senior Faculty IT team,and act as IT liaison for the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacyand Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), ensuring that the needs of thedepartment are met by the Science IT team, and that relevantupdates on the IT team’s activities are relayed to the department.

The main duties of the postholder are to support researchprojects by professionalising researcher-developed softwarecode so as to enable its release to the wider community, andraise programming and software project management skillsamong staff and students. In addition, the post will focus oncuration and maintenance of in-house applications and largedata assets held by the Faculty, including learning supportapplications, and the facilitation of access to these by projectsand students in the Faculty of Science.

Initial interviews have been scheduled for Monday 19th October 2026.

For informal enquiries, please contactIan Thompson,Head of IT, Science