£40K/yr to £50K/yr
Vale of White Horse, England
Permanent, Variable

Algorithm Developer

Posted by Mars Recruitment.

Algorithm Developer (Python) | Didcot | £40,000 - £50,000pa:

Our client are a very exciting and pioneering engineering business, that are designing and developing world leading detection and monitoring devices.

The responsibilities for the Algorithm Engineer:

Your role will be to develop and maintain custom algorithms that are used to extract real-world meaning from the measurements taken by my clients laser spectrometers. This challenging role involves understanding data sets, enhancing and optimising analysis pipelines, both in the instrument and in the cloud, and working with hardware and data engineers to optimise the performance of the entire entire system.

About You

You're a smart, enthusiastic professional software developer or data scientist with an excellent grasp of the algorithmic processing of data sets, a background in scientific or statistical Python and a natural focus on patterns and anomalies in data. You relish solving difficult problems and are confident working with extensive data sets using complex algorithmic code. A methodical thinker, you naturally collaborate to find the best innovative solutions, validate them and present them to the team.

Essential skills:

  • 2 years commercial experience of scientific or statistical Python, ideally on Linux
  • Experience with scientific or statistical libraries
  • Experience processing large data sets, data pipelines, algorithm optimisation
  • Familiarity with software process – coding standards, unit tests and source control
  • Excellent communication, collaboration and team skills

Desirable skills:

  • Knowledge of Python libraries, numpy, scipy, pandas, lmfit
  • Experience of signal processing, noise characterisation and filtering
  • Experience with Agile teams and processes
  • Knowledge of Python visualisation libraries – Bokeh, Holoviews
  • SQL, Postgres and psycopg2

MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days, unfortunately if you haven't heard back in this time your application has been unsuccessful at this time.

MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles).