Higher Scientist - Informatics

National Physical Laboratory; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Higher Scientist to join the Informatics group within the Data Science & AI department. You will tackle major challenges in industry, energy, environment and health by delivering data-driven solutions and advancing our research.

The role offers collaboration across academic, industrial and governmental partners at national and international levels, with base at Glasgow, Cambridge, or Teddington, and travel between

Qualifications

• Experienced scientist with a passion for tackling big challenges in industry, energy, environment and healthcare.
• Ability to acquire new knowledge and deliver impact to clients through project delivery.
• Collaborative work with internal and external teams, with technical documentation including scientific publications.

Responsibilities

• Develop semantic web technologies, ontologies, knowledge representation, knowledge graphs and NLP to support data used in complex systems.
• Apply data engineering approaches to data-based projects across national and international contexts.
• Contribute to project idea generation, bidding support and consideration of digital products and services built on research.

Skills

Data engineering

Semantic web

Ontologies

Knowledge graphs

Natural Language Processing

Knowledge representation

Job description

At NPL, we are looking for an experienced scientist with a real passion for tackling some of the biggest challenges in industry, energy, the environment, and healthcare to join our Informatics group within the Data Science & AI department. As a Higher Scientist, you'll be expected to acquire new knowledge to find solutions to advance our research, build our capability and provide impact to our clients through project delivery.

The work conducted within the Data science & AI department responds to the national challenges of:

• Prosperity: delivering measurement solutions to maximise innovation and prosperity in advanced manufacturing
• Security and resilience: managing the risks to our national security and resilience infrastructure
• Environment: science-directed measurement solutions for environment climate action and a sustainable future
• Health: supporting healthcare, life science and the bio economy

You will be working on data-based projects through practical and theory-based learning in the field of data engineering by developing semantic web technologies, ontologies, knowledge representation, knowledge graphs and Natural Language Processing to support data used in a range of complex systems.

As a Higher Scientist, you will collaborate with a variety of teams, both internal and external to NPL, within academic, industrial and governmental sectors, and at national and international levels. You will be expected to use logical thinking skills for designing and following a work plan, along with developing technical documents including scientific publications. Additionally, you will contribute to project idea generation, bidding support and consideration of digital products and services that could be built upon your research.

The role can be based at either of our Glasgow and Cambridge hub offices, or at our main Teddington (London) site with occasional travel required between these three sites. Additional opportunities to travel both nationally and internationally will become available as part of your role in delivery projects, collaborating with partners, and through conference attendance.

Higher Scientist - Informatics Teddington, United Kingdom, United Kingdom