Research Software Engineer

We seek Research Software Engineers with skills in modern DevOps, a solid understanding of scalable architecture design, and data science to join the IBM Research UK Climate and Sustainability team. In doing so, you will join IBM's global initiative to build domain-informed toolkits for applications in science and business. As a member of our IBM Research team, your responsibilities will include developing, operationalizing, and scaling our toolkits and modelling ecosystem, working with complex materials datasets and large climate datasets for discovery and making them consumable in science and business.

• Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Physics, or Engineering


• Experience with AI/ Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, or High-Performance Computing (HPC).


• Experience in scientific research or software engineering for research.


• Working experience building workflows and AI models in platforms such as Ray, Pytorch, MLFlow, etc.


• Experience working with materials datasets and models (e.g., metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) materials, and catalysts for carbon capture and conversion).


• Experience creating (or at least using) REST-APIs and SDKs.


• Experience in cloud native application design and development leveraging microservices and cloud native patterns, workflow, event-driven architecture


• Experience building and deploying across multiple cloud environments


• Experience using containerised cloud platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with AI/ Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, or High-Performance Computing (HPC).


• Experience in scientific research or software engineering for research.


• Working experience building workflows and AI models in platforms such as Ray, Pytorch, MLFlow, etc.


• Experience working with materials datasets and models (e.g., metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) materials, and catalysts for carbon capture and conversion).


• Experience creating (or at least using) REST-APIs and SDKs.


• Experience in cloud native application design and development leveraging microservices and cloud native patterns, workflow, event-driven architecture


• Experience building and deploying across multiple cloud environments


• Experience using containerised cloud platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with AI/ Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, or High-Performance Computing (HPC).


• Experience in scientific research or software engineering for research.


• Working experience building workflows and AI models in platforms such as Ray, Pytorch, MLFlow, etc.


• Experience working with materials datasets and models (e.g., metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) materials, and catalysts for carbon capture and conversion).


• Experience creating (or at least using) REST-APIs and SDKs.


• Experience in cloud native application design and development leveraging microservices and cloud native patterns, workflow, event-driven architecture


• Experience building and deploying across multiple cloud environments


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