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About the Role
Please note role can be based at either of our Glasgow or Cambridge hub offices
At NPL, we are looking for an experienced scientist with a real passion for tackling some of the biggest challenges in industry, energy, the environment, and healthcare to join our Informatics group within the Data Science & AI department. As a Higher Scientist, you'll be expected to acquire new knowledge to find solutions to advance our research, build our capability and provide impact to our clients through project delivery.
The work conducted within the Data science & AI department responds to the national challenges of:
Prosperity: delivering measurement solutions to maximise innovation and prosperity in advanced manufacturing
Security and resilience: managing the risks to our national security and resilience infrastructure
Environment: science-directed measurement solutions for environment climate action and a sustainable future
Health: supporting healthcare, life science and the bio economy
You will be working on data-based projects through practical and theory-based learning in the field of data engineering by developing semantic web technologies, ontologies, knowledge representation, knowledge graphs and Natural Language Processing to support data used in a range of complex systems.
As a Higher Scientist, you will collaborate with a variety of teams, both internal and external to NPL, within academic, industrial and governmental sectors, and at national and international levels. You will be expected to use logical thinking skills for designing and following a work plan, along with developing technical documents including scientific publications. Additionally, you will contribute to project idea generation, bidding support and consideration of digital products and services that could be built upon your research.
The role can be based at either of our Glasgow or Cambridge hub offices with occasional travel required to our main Teddington (London) site, and between our hub sites in Glasgow and Cambridge. Additional opportunities to travel both nationally and internationally will become available as part of your role in delivery projects, collaborating with partners, and through conference attendance.
About You
We are seeking a Higher Scientist to work on data engineering aspects of Informatics. You will understand how data science works within areas such as semantic technologies, ontologies and knowledge representations / graphs, and have an appreciation of how the subject is being researched, how it can be implemented through software tools, and its impact within real-world applications.
To be successful in the Higher Scientist role, you will have the following skills and qualifications:
Desirable Skills
Education
Proficient
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.
Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical