Research Software Engineer

Job id: 106086. Salary: £44,105 - £45,247 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 30 January 2025. Closing date: 06 February 2025.

Business unit: Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sci. Department: Chemistry.

Contact details:Dr Micaela Matta. micaela.matta@kcl.ac.uk

Location: Guy's Campus. Category: Research.

Our contemporary Chemistry Department, based in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, provides an exciting place to explore the boundaries of the subject. The Department champions the discipline of Chemistry across King’s, leading with its own research and teaching, and encourages close interdisciplinary collaborations.

​​​Our PGT and UG programmes have been designed to impart a rigorous theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry, delivered within the context of biomedical applications. We strive to provide students with a thorough chemical education plus a perspective on, and experience of, diverse practical applications of chemistry that lays down a basis for a flexible, interesting career, particularly at the interface of chemistry and biomedicine.   

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The research group of Dr Micaela Matta is seeking to appoint a research software engineer to work on the EPSRC project “Data-driven design of organic mixed conductors”.

Mixed ionic/electronic conducting materials are being developed for applications in bioelectronics, biosensing, energy storage and neuromorphic computing.  However, the lack of general structure-property relationships is a bottleneck for systematic material development.

In this project, the candidate will develop a high throughput computational workflow to discover of novel organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors integrating cheminformatics, quantum chemistry, and molecular dynamics simulations. The candidate will develop and maintain workflows and datasets related to the project according to FAIR principles, supported by Dr Matta and KCL’s E-Research Team.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract from 1/4/2025 until 31/3/2026.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1.      Hold a PhD in Chemistry, Materials science, Physics or equivalent.

2.      Demonstrable experience in either atomistic molecular dynamics simulations or quantum chemistry/density functional theory calculations

3.      Demonstrable programming skills

4.      Strong track record (commensurate to experience)

5.      Excellent communication skills and teamwork attitude

Desirable criteria

1.      Demonstrable experience in applying machine learning tools to computational chemistry

2.      Demonstrable experience in developing/applying computational workflows for large datasets

3.      Demonstrable experience in managing, deploying and documenting Python packages

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