From peter.inglesby at gmail.com Tue Apr 16 14:14:48 2024 From: peter.inglesby at gmail.com (Peter Inglesby) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:14:48 +0100 Subject: [python-uk] JOBS: Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science Message-ID: Hi all, At the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at Oxford University we're building core data infrastructure for the NHS, and we're recruiting for a range of software engineers, managers, and product managers. There are links to job descriptions in this blog post . Applications close at midday on 8th May. Our main project is OpenSAFELY , a platform to let researchers access highly sensitive health data without ever being able to see the data themselves. We built this on a shoestring during the early days of the pandemic (among other things it was used to investigate factors associated with dying of covid, monitor the progress of the vaccine rollout, and study vaccine efficiency). We now have secure funding for several years to grow the platform. We're a mixed team of software engineers, clinicians, and academics -- and one of the best parts of the job is working so closely with our users. While we have offices in Oxford, most of the tech team work remotely and we regularly interact with our users online. Some other good things? The rest of the team are really decent, capable, and interesting human beings, and we support each other and take each other seriously. We prioritise developer experience, and invest time reducing friction in our work to allow us to move fast with confidence. And our work often appears in the press -- which means this is the first job I've ever done where my family have some idea what I do! Some less good things? Like all growing organisations we experience growing pains as we become less startuppy, but we're constantly learning and trying to improve. University bureaucracy can sometimes slow things down (our job descriptions were ready to go before Christmas...) but day-to-day we're mostly shielded from that. And we can't offer Silicon Valley levels of pay -- but I can't imagine anywhere else that offers so much interesting and important work in such a supportive (and fun) environment. If you'd like to know more, feel free to get in touch with me ( peter.inglesby at phc.ox.ac.uk -- beware that replying to this email will reply to all subscribers!) or with Ben Butler-Cole, our director of engineering (benjamin.butler-cole at phc.ox.ac.uk). Thanks for reading! Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: