Ai Researcher

**Science and Technology Facilities Council**

**Salary**: Band E (Stem 1) £53,818 - £59,199 per annum (dependent on skills and experience).
**Hours**: Full time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)
**Contract Type**: Fixed Term (3 Years).
**Location**: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington

**About the Hartree Centre**

The Hartree Centre is within the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and part of UK Research and Innovation. We are funded by UK Government to support businesses and the public sector on their digital journey, so we can grow the economy, create skilled jobs and keep the UK at the forefront of digital innovation.

We help organisations with an appetite for change, who are ready to innovate and create useful solutions to explore and adopt advanced digital technologies, including high performance computing (HPC), data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We are home to some of the most advanced computing, data and AI technologies in the UK and form an important part of the UK's research and innovation ecosystem alongside our global network of academic research communities and technology partners.

With the help of our experts and technologies, UK organisations can enhance products and processes more quickly that using conventional R&D methods, adopt new digital technologies, upskill their staff and expand into new markets.

**Reasons our staff enjoy working for us**:

- We’re based at Sci-Tech Daresbury - a lively and dynamic campus bringing together SMEs and leading industry-academic collaborations located in a picturesque semi-rural location with easy access to canal-side and woodland walking.
- 30 days annual leave plus 10.5 public and privilege days.
- Options for flexible or hybrid working patterns are available.
- Excellent defined average salary pension.
- There are different active sport and social groups across campus with access to an on-site gym for staff.
- Personal development is key. You will work with your line manager to develop your own Learning and Development plan each year.
- We value collaborative working across STFC and with our external collaborators such as IBM Research, The University of Liverpool’s Virtual Engineering Centre, Atos, NVIDIA, Unilever and many more.
- Diversity and inclusion are important to us. UKRI has a corporate policy on Equality and Diversity which is supported by a Diversity Forum and implementation group.

**The Role**

Come and do the kind of science that made you want to become a scientist. Explore the unknown and get to grips with the biggest challenges in Big Science. And, alongside world class engineers and technologists, use everything you've learnt to find real-answers that shape society and improve lives.

Put simply, discover the kind of impact you can make when you work with some of the best facilities and brightest scientists in the world.

The Artificial Intelligence group at Hartree has a particular focus on deep learning, with projects including deep reinforcement learning, natural language processing and computer vision. We’re looking to expand the team with outstanding individuals who have strong backgrounds in scientific or mathematical research.

**Duties include but are not limited to**:

- Project planning: meet with clients and suggest AI solutions to their specific problems. Develop project plans to implement these solutions. Clients are typically academic research groups or commercial partners. The AI solutions are typically centred around deep neural networks, although other AI techniques are used on a case-by-case basis. Specific projects will sometimes be confidential in nature.
- Project implementation: implement the proposed AI solution. This often involves using our supercomputers to train deep neural networks.
- Continuing professional development: expand your knowledge of AI techniques, so that the team can collectively maintain its position on the cutting edge of theory and practice.
- Client visits: make site visits to commercial and academic partners.

**Person Specification**
- Educated to PhD or Masters level or equivalent in a mathematical, physics or other scientific discipline (S).
- Conveys enthusiasm for their chosen areas of specialization (I).
- Ability to demonstrate and clearly communicate expertise and insight in their areas of speciation (I).
- Team player. Can substantiate with examples of past teamwork experiences and in particular examples of putting team before self (i.e. managing conflicts of interest between the benefit of the team and individual advantage) (I).
- Enthusiastic about moving into AI and can expand reason for this in the interview (I).
- Self-starter. Good time management and ability to deliver against work plans (S&I).
- Able to work with a range of clients. (I)
- Strong leadership skills with previous experience and abili