UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN Computing Science Software Engineer - eInfrastructure for Social Sciences Available immediately (21 month appointment) £27,857 - £33,262 per annum The PolicyGrid project within the Department of Computing Science invites applications for the above post, to work on a new eInfrastructure activity funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme. PolicyGrid (www.policygrid.org) is one of the National Centre for eSocial Science research nodes, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Semantic Grid in supporting collaboration, sharing and re-use of social science resources. ESRC has recently committed to the construction of an e-Infrastructure on the UK National Grid Service (NGS) to provide integrated access to a variety of resources for social science research, including datasets, tools, services and easy-to-use user environments. You will focus on the development of Grid services and software tools in the context of the metadata infrastructure and simulation workpackages of the eInfrastructure effort. These include (but are not restricted to) the following: developing a Grid based metadata/ontology infrastructure; making an existing natural language interface for creation of RDF metadata robust, pluggable and usable; portal development. The work will entail extensive collaboration with other sites involved in the eInfrastructure project, and regular access grid, telephone and face-to-face conferences. There will be a requirement to produce documentation throughout the project, to include: regular progress updates, workpackage reviews, software tool documentation. You should have a PhD in Computer Science, or relevant equivalent experience. You are expected to be a highly competent programmer in Java, and have experience of Semantic Web technologies (including OWL and RDF). Knowledge of Web/Grid services, e-science, and related areas would be desirable. The work will involve development of robust software, within a managed project environment; it is therefore important that you have knowledge and experience of software engineering principles and standards. The post is available until 31 December 2009 and is available immediately. For further details, including online application facility: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS060RZ Closing Date: 24-Mar-2008 The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.