Radar R&D Scientific Software Engineer - Met Office - HEO
Government Digital & Data -
As our software engineer the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 33 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.
World changing work
From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.
- We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
- We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
- We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Your world of expertise
As a world-leading authority in weather and climate services, observations are fundamental to almost everything we do at the Met Office. Our network of weather radars measure the atmosphere, feeding data into high performance numerical models and are used by our forecasting teams to precisely predict the weather. To collect these underpinning observations, we utilise innovative technology that improves the quality and accuracy of our radar systems and helps us to deliver the most accurate forecasts to our customers. Technology and science go hand-in-hand to drive our success and that’s where you come in.
Working with our upgraded Dual Polarisation radars, you’ll join our Radar Research and Development Team to develop techniques and processes to enhance the data collected through our observing network. The Radar R&D team are responsible for end-to-end upgrades of the UK Weather Radar capability. Your technical skills, combined with your scientific understanding, can help us develop the cutting-edge systems that will deliver reliable and timely weather information to our customers, which include the Flood Forecasting Centre, regional water companies across the UK and the Environment Agency.
Your key duties
- Help to design and develop operational data services exploiting cloud computing technologies to efficiently produce radar products.
- Support Met Office scientists and engineers to develop high-quality code and implementations of their research, lead activities to develop their capabilities.
- Collaborate with a motivated team to deliver projects that solve real world challenges.
Person specification
- Experience and knowledge in a mathematical, physical or computational science or related discipline, equivalent to several years working post-graduate.
- Provide proactive scientific and technical insight into the solving of scientific software engineering tasks or problems
- Experience in designing, writing and understanding Python code, in a cloud-based, Linux environment.
- Apply good Quality Assurance processes, best practice, standards and/or regulations to all aspects of your work to achieve the agreed standard
- Communicate accurately and concisely with colleagues and/or wider stakeholders to develop trust and credibility, tailoring your method of sharing to a range of audiences
- Develop your skills proactively, and provide support to others to develop their skills leading to beneficial impacts
