Principal Research Engineer – Digital Twins

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You will join our creative and innovative team at the University of Southampton's IT Innovation Centre working to advance methods, tools and technologies for helping ensure the safety, security and trustworthiness of digital twins in healthcare, manufacturing, environment sciences and beyond. 

Your experience will contribute to our research programme pioneering approaches to risk management of cyber-physical systems considering emerging governance and AI paradigms, distributed computing infrastructures and physical environments.

You will be responsible for working with regulators, industry and citizens to understand future systems and advance modelling and simulation methods and applications. Your work will contribute to the future of a knowledge-based risk simulation toolkit named Spyderisk (https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.24061590.v1), which has been developed at the University of Southampton over a 10-year period. 

There is considerable potential for developing your expertise and career, e.g. participation in open source communities, partnerships with public sector (e.g. NHS) and industry, pursuit of new ideas, projects and publications, leading to a Principal Enterprise Fellow positions and beyond.  

To be successful it is essential you have the following:

• PhD or an equivalent combination of qualifications and experience in computer science, software engineering or a related discipline (e.g. physics or maths).
• Significant experience of systems information modelling and / or simulation.
• Well-established national and international reputation in systems modelling with demonstrable examples creating positive change and impacts to business and society.
• Track record of income generation.

The following would be advantageous.

• PhD in Information Modelling or Systems Simulation  
• Knowledge of risk assessment / management (e.g., ISO 27000 series)
• Experience of in requirements engineering and/or codesign and coproduction

We offer some fantastic benefits including 44 days leave per year (inclusive of public holidays and University closure days), options for flexible and remote working (e.g. no need to relocate to Southampton), excellent family leave arrangements, access to onsite childcare facilities and our comprehensive benefits package also includes a contributory pension scheme (with a 14.5% employer contribution), subsidised health and fitness facilities, a cycle-to-work scheme, and a range of discounts. 

The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. The University of Southampton is committed to sustainability and being a globally responsible university and has recently been awarded the Platinum EcoAward.  Our vision is to embed the principles of sustainability into all aspects of our individual and collective work, integrating sustainable development into our business planning, policy-making, and professional activities.  This commits all of our staff and students to take responsibility for managing their activities to minimise harm to the environment, whether this through switching off non-essential electrical equipment or using the recycling facilities.

This is a full-time post for the period of 18 months, renewable subject to funding. We wish the post to start as soon as possible.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Application Procedure 

The application deadline is midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need assistance, call Recruitment on  +44 (0) 23 8059 2750, or email [email protected] . Quote the advert reference 2589524FP on all correspondence. 

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who supports our mission of inclusivity.

Apply by midnight on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or [email protected] quoting the job number.