The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The Institute is named in honour of the scientist Alan Turing and its mission is to make great leaps in data science and artificial intelligence research in order to change the world for the better.
The Defence & Security programme at the Institute is forming a new team of data scientists in order to solve real-world problems aligned with securing the UK.
The team will collaborate with scholars across the institute’s research community to enhance the applicability of research for particular problems. It will work with our partners from across UK Government to turn their data challenges into research questions. The team will create software and scripts that implement research and apply it to client data in a readable, reliable and reproducible fashion. It will present conclusions of research and analysis to the research community and clients through presentations, research papers, and interactive data visualisations. It will work with state-of-the-art advanced high-performance computing and cloud platforms to realise collaborators' data science and artificial intelligence research at scale.
The team will support the dissemination of research outputs through the publication and maintenance of open source research software packages. It will contribute to the sustainability of the open source ecosystem by adding features, fixing bugs, maintaining tools, and supporting community management in new and existing packages, where appropriate.
Duties and Responsibilities
Successful candidates will:
1. Apply state-of-the-art and novel data science and artificial intelligence techniques emerging from the Institute and elsewhere to problems faced by the Turing’s partners
2. Collaborate with research colleagues to develop and maintain software embodying research outputs
3. Present, disseminate and explain our work
4. Contribute to the life of the Institute and support its community
5. In addition, for senior staff only:
Essential
Candidates must be able to demonstrate, through examples, the below capabilities:
In addition, for senior staff only:
Desirable
We do not of course at all expect any candidate to have experience of all of the below! We are a learning team, combining many techniques and approaches to address our projects. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate existing knowledge of more than one, depending on experience level, and, importantly, a commitment to develop new expertise in others.
Application Procedure
If you are interested in this opportunity, please click the apply button below. You will need to register on the applicant portal and complete the application form including your CV, covering letter and contact details for your referees.
Within your covering letter, please submit a research output to support your application, for us to read before the interview. This might be a link to a selected research or technical paper, a technical blog post or a chapter of a thesis or dissertation, but we particularly encourage applicants to submit a link to a public version control tool such as GitHub containing an example analysis script or research software library they have made a significant contribution to. You will be asked questions on this output as part of the interview.
If you have queries or would like to discuss the role further, please contact the Defence & Security Programme via [email protected].
If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact them on 0203 862 3357 or email [email protected].
Interview process
As part of their interview candidates will be expected:
Should you be shortlisted and successful for the first interview, a second-stage interview will be held the week after.
Terms and Conditions
This is a full time, permanent post, to be held at the Institute’s site at the British Library, Euston Rd, London.
A generous benefits package includes flexible working, 30 days’ holiday excluding bank holidays, Cycle2Work, childcare vouchers, contributory pension, health and life assurance and range of other benefits that you would expect from a good employer.
Secondments from partner establishments will be considered for a minimum two-year period of secondment.
Please note all offers of employment are subject to continuous eligibility to work in the UK and satisfactory pre-employment security screening which includes a DBS Check.
This full-time post is offered on a permanent basis. Salary £35-45,000 or £45-60,000 Senior (negotiable dependent on skills & experience) plus excellent benefits including flexible working and family friendly policies. https://www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/why-work-turing/employee-benefits
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The Alan Turing Institute is committed to creating an environment where diversity is valued and everyone is treated fairly. In accordance with the Equality Act, we welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability.
Please note all offers of employment are subject to continuous eligibility to work in the UK and satisfactory pre-employment security screening which includes a DBS Check.