Departmental Lecturer in Pre-Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Senior Research Software Engineer – Multi-Dimensional Viewer (MDV)

Full‑time fixed‑term contract for 36 months, funded by the Small Research Facility.

The Centre for Human Genetics is seeking an experienced Senior Research Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of the Multi‑Dimensional Viewer (MDV) platform, an open‑source, web‑based system used internationally to explore high‑dimensional biological data including single‑cell and spatial omics, genomics, and imaging. MDV is used across academia and industry to democratise biological data analysis and visualisation.

In this role you will act as the technical lead for MDV’s analysis and AI capabilities, defining the platform’s technical roadmap and standards.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the development of Python‑based analysis frameworks that enable MDV workflows to run as remote jobs on institutional compute infrastructure.
• Contributing to the design and implementation of ChatMDV, exposing MDV’s analysis tools through a safe, LLM‑based interface.
• Leading the integration of data versioning to support snapshotting, rollback, and full auditability of projects.
• Working closely with software engineers, Dev Ops teams and experimental collaborators to provide technical leadership, documentation, strategy, and best practice for data governance and reproducibility.

Qualifications:

• PhD/DPhil in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, bioinformatics, computational biology or a closely related discipline.
• Exceptional Python expertise for scientific computing or backend development.
• Experience building robust, data‑intensive workflows, sound software engineering practices, and expertise in data versioning, containerisation or orchestration tools.
• Strong interest in AI and large language models with evidence of engagement through projects or experimentation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manage workload to deliver high‑quality outputs to deadline in multidisciplinary settings.

Applications for this vacancy should be made online and must include a supporting statement and CV. The supporting statement should explain how you meet each selection criterion using examples of your skills and experience. Only supporting statement and CV should be uploaded at this stage.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until 12 midday on 3 February 2026. Please quote 184173 on all correspondence.