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<td>[Ieee_vis_open_positions] Senior Visualisation Scientist
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<td>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 07:14:10 +0000</td>
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<td>erica.yang--- via ieee_vis_open_positions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">We
have a senior visualisation scientist vacancy available at
the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. The lab
locates in Oxfordshire, close to Oxford and Reading, 45 mins
train ride to London. This is a good opportunity for someone
with a research background in computer science and
visualisation to develop and apply their expertise in the
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC -
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.stfc.ac.uk/">http://www.stfc.ac.uk/</a>)
of the UK, one of the biggest multidisciplinary research
organisations in Europe, delivering strategically important
national science capabilities to the UK.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Please
feel free to forward it to researchers who might be
interested. For an informal discussion of the role, please
feel free to email -
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:erica.yang@stfc.ac.uk">erica.yang@stfc.ac.uk</a>
(Head of Visualisation) or phone 0044-(0) 1235 446423<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dr Erica Yang</span><span
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UI","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Head of
Visualisation</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">0044-(0)-1235
446423 (office)/0044-07598-260848 (mobile)</span><span
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UI","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Technology
Division, Scientific Computing Department, STFC Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We are
recruiting! </span><span
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UI","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Segoe
UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Vacancy -
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc231790_6763.aspx">http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc231790_6763.aspx</a></span><span
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<h1 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Visualisation
Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h3 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#343C3F">STFC
- The Science and Technology Facilities Council<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Salary:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">£31,100 to £43,164 (depending on
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<p class="MsoNormal">3rd October 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">30th October 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IRC231790<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;word-wrap:
break-word"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C5656">Background</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;word-wrap: break-word"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">The
Scientific Computing Department (SCD) of the Science and
Technology Facilities Council (STFC) develops software,
systems, and infrastructure to enable scientific
breakthroughs in sciences and technologies of national
importance to the UK, including energy, healthcare,
environment, security, and urban living.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;word-wrap:
break-word"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C5656">About
the role</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;word-wrap: break-word"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">The
Visualisation Group, with more than a decade track record in
visualization software and system engineering, and an
ambitious growth plan for the next three years, is seeking a
highly motivated and experienced research scientist to
commit to the development of user driven software tools for
visualisation and image analysis codes supported by the
Group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;word-wrap: break-word"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">The
Group provides practical software development expertise and
knowledge to two major UK based tomographic imaging
Collaborative Computational Projects (CCPs) and has a fast
growing range of activities in visual analytics where data
mining, machine learning techniques are increasingly used to
complement visualisation to improve human understandings and
perceptions in complex relationship exploration and process
optimization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;word-wrap: break-word"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">The
Group has built up an extensive portfolio in the development
and/or operation of high fidelity visualization facilities.
Currently, we mainly operate the Atlas Visualisation
Facility (AVF) at the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. We have
also developed and/or supported the maintenance of
visualisation facilities at STFC Daresbury Laboratory and
the Innovate UK Satellite Application Catapult.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;word-wrap: break-word"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">You
will be based at the STFC Rutherford Appleton laboratory in
Oxfordshire and the appointment will depend on your
qualifications and experience. The work environment will be
highly multidisciplinary with a mixed team of software
developers, mathematician, image analysis expert, and
visualisation expert, experimental and computational
scientists from other disciplines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;word-wrap:
break-word"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C5656">About
you</span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">You
will have a good degree in science or engineering, e.g.
computer science, mathematics, physics, or biology (or with
equivalent professional expertise), show proven ability to
involve in the delivery of complex software and/or R&D
projects and have good experience in modern programming
languages, e.g. Python or C++.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#505050"><span
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"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">You
will have a good track record in dealing with diverse user
groups, from science and/or industry, in software
development projects as well as showing experience in
implementing complex software or systems, both of which will
be essential for a band E appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
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"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">It
will be desirable to have a MSc or PhD in computer science,
physics, or mathematics, a good knowledge or experience in
VTK, paraview, or Avizo and show experience in developing
image analysis or visualisation software using Python or
C++.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Knowledge
or experience in data mining or machine learning algorithms,
e.g. Bayes classifier, SVM, and tools, e.g.
TensorFlow,MLLib, NLTK, R packages (igraph, RWeka etc.)
would also be desirable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;word-wrap:
break-word"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C5656">Benefits: </span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">In
addition to the competitive salary, an excellent index
linked pension scheme and generous leave allowance are
offered. Full details of offered benefits can be found on
STFC’s careers pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;word-wrap:
break-word"><strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C5656">How
to apply: </span></strong><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">Online
applications only, please submit a covering letter and CV
to, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc231790_6763.aspx"><span
style="color:#339999">http://www.topcareer.jobs/Vacancy/irc231790_6763.aspx</span></a> ensuring
that the IRC reference is included in the file name
description of each document uploaded. No Agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;word-wrap: break-word"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050">The
interview/assessment date for this vacancy is to be
confirmed and will be held at Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, Oxfordshire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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