Career Opportunity /  11 December 2022

Research Software Engineer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Applications open for a Research Software Engineer in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology to work on the design and development of an integrated, real-time platform to forecast and manage infectious disease risk for public health agencies. 

Deadline: 11 December 2022 - the deadline has passed.
London - United Kingdom

Salary: £41,829 to £47,503 per annum, inclusive.
Closing Date: Sunday 11 December 2022
Reference: EPH-IDE-2022-49
 

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice. 

Applications are invited for a Research Software Engineer to work on the design and development of an integrated, real-time platform to forecast and manage infectious disease risk for public health agencies. This work is funded by The Trinity Challenge, with collaborators from UCL, the Zoological Society of London, the University of Cambridge, the WHO, Redeemer’s University and the Nigerian CDC. 

The post-holder will ideally have the following:

  • Proficiency in one of the reactive user interface frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) using JavaScript or TypeScript
  • Experience with visualization libraries such as D3.js, Vega, etc.
  • Experience with visual representation of complex data
  • Experience in data analysis in R/Python
  • Experience with configuring and deploying web infrastructure on one of the cloud providers (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud)
  • Evidence contributing to bigger open-source projects

See the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine website for further details and how to apply.