Software Developer - Auckland City, New Zealand - The University of Auckland

The University of Auckland

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Auckland City, New Zealand

1 week ago

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Jack Simmons

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Description

Full-time

Contract Type: Fixed-Term
Campus: Auckland City Campus
Position Number:
UoA

Department Name:
Bioengineering Institute

Company Description:

Waipapa Taumata Rau
| The University of Auckland

The University of Auckland is New Zealand's leading university, with a turnover of $1.3bn, including research revenue of over $300m generated across eight diverse faculties and two research institutes.

We employ more than 5400 academic and professional staff to support over 45,000 students, making us one of NZ's largest employers.

Our mission and values place a strong emphasis on both our student body and our scholarly community, and we work with both community and enterprise to advance the well-being of the peoples of Auckland and New Zealand, with a clear commitment to pursuing sustainability.

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

We are looking for an individual to join our NIH Common Fund Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) Data and Resource Center core in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute.

SPARC aims to transform our understanding of nerve-organ interactions and ultimately advance the neuromodulation field toward precise treatment of diseases and conditions for which conventional therapies fall short.

The SPARC Data and Research Center (DRC) aims to provide tools and services to enable the SPARC awardees to collaborate effectively and efficiently across all organ systems regardless of global location.

The successful applicant will focus specifically on mapping of image and physiological data collected by SPARC investigators to a detailed anatomical vagus nerve scaffold making use of tools developed in the DRC.

In a collaboration with the community of SPARC investigators this role will lead customisation of this detailed anatomical scaffold to specific data to help achieve our goal of interactive anatomical maps of the autonomic nervous system.

This position will also be expected to deliver contributions to the evolution of standardised scaffold generation software tools and workflows, ensuring that the anatomical scaffolds are reusable and composable and include detailed semantic annotation describing anatomical structures.

In addition to enjoying working on a high-profile NIH funded project, you will work with a large team of Investigators and specialists located all around the globe and be supported locally by senior colleagues from whom you can learn and develop.

It offers the opportunity to gain exposure to a variety of work in other areas of the project and build a large international network.

As such, this is a good opportunity for someone interested in career opportunities in the Bioengineering/Health Informatics research sector.

Please note this is a
full time (37.5hours/ week)
fixed term position until 31 August 2025

The salary range is $78,500 to $97,000, dependent on experience.

He kōrero mōu | About you

Hold a postgraduate level mathematics or similar
Be confident in using mathematical approaches to solving real world problems.
Possess knowledge to independently investigate/troubleshoot and resolve issues with software
Be skilled at working with a large amount of data, data management and versioning
Have strong communication skills, that lend well to our collaborative, diverse and global project environment
Have knowledge and experience working in Python
Have experience with modularity, testing, and continuous integration
Be curious, innovative and inventive as there is often no roadmap or blueprint for what we are trying to do

Knowledge and experience working with different image formats would also be beneficial, as we work with a lot of image data.

As much of the work produced will be made available to our collaborators (and the world) online, web development skills would also be useful in this role, but not essential.

For more detailed information about the responsibilities and requirements of the role, please review the Position Description.

Mō tō mātou rōpū | About the team
The Auckland Bioengineering Institute is a unique partnership between scientists, engineers, clinicians and the community.

Established in 2001, the Institute excels in world-class bioengineering research carried out by cross-faculty research teams, alongside clinical collaborators in the Auckland region.

The ABI is located within The University of Auckland, New Zealand's largest provider of medical, engineering and biomedical research, and ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou | What we offer
The University of Auckland is New Zealand's leading university and maintains significant computational, laboratory and analytic facilities. Auckland itself is frequently rated as one of the world's most liveable cities.

The University is committed to providing an excellent working environment through: