OBIC (Southampton and Durham Universities) are recruiting a Instrumentation Software Engineer

January 25, 2021

Instrumentation Software Engineer

Apply your programming skills to cutting edge scientific research:

The Ocean-Bottom Instrumentation Consortium (http://www.obs.ac.uk), operated by Southampton and Durham Universities, designs, builds, and operates instruments on the seabed in the deep oceans. Our autonomous instruments are deployed for up to a year to record variation in water pressure, ground vibration, and electric or magnetic fields.

OBIC are looking for an enthusiastic and versatile software engineer to be based at the University of Southampton’s Waterfront Campus to help develop its next generation of seabed scientific equipment that will be deployed all over the world. Joining a small but highly skilled team of engineers, you will prototype, develop and test embedded firmware, as well as maintaining and improving a suite of data processing and visualisation code. This role would suit a programmer with a strong track record of development in C, who is enthusiastic about seeing their code go to production collecting unique datasets globally at the bottom of the Earth’s oceans. This post offers global travel and working at sea, providing the key data sets required by scientists working at the forefront to better understand planet Earth.

Informal enquiries can be made to Profs Tim Henstock ([email protected]) or Christine Peirce ([email protected])