Get involved#
We’re hiring!
Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer/image analyst interested in the brain? We’re hiring three research software engineers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre to help develop tools to advance neuroscience.
All positions start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-64k.
Senior Research Software Engineer (Neural and Behavioural Data)
We’re looking for a research software engineer to build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals.
The post will be based in the Neuroinformatics Unit, working with the Mrsic-Flogel, Branco and Behrens labs. More details here.
Senior Research Software Engineer (Multiphoton Microscopy)
We’re looking for a research software engineer to build pipelines to process, align and analyse data from benchtop and miniaturised two-photon microscopes.
This is a joint post, between the Neuroinformatics Unit and the Advanced Microscopy Facility, working with the Mrsic-Flogel, Hofer and Behrens labs. More details here.
Senior Research Software Engineer (Omics)
We’re looking for a research software engineer to build robust and easy to use software tools for merging in-vivo imaging functional data with ex-vivo transcriptomics data.
This is a joint post, between the Neuroinformatics Unit and the Advanced Microscopy Facility, working with the Mrsic-Flogel, Hofer, Stephenson-Jones and Behrens labs. More details here.
Contributing to Neuroinformatics Unit projects#
We always welcome contributions to all of our software, whether from experienced developers, or researchers looking to make their first open-source contribution.
Many of our projects are quite large and the software is used by researchers around the world. For this reason, all contributions go through a review process to make sure that they are necessary, useful, correct and complete. This “code review” process can often be daunting to first time contributors. It is often not difficult to meet these criteria, but it can be complicated.
For this reason we have written some documents to outline the processes we use, so hopefully they aren’t so opaque. These include our general development guidelines and guidelines for specific languages and frameworks.
We are also happy to guide new contributors through the process. For more details please see our documentation about mentored open source contributions and our policy on AI contributions.
Internships#
We offer a number of paid internships each year, through established programs such as Google Summer of Code and In2research. Unfortunately we do not offer any other formal internship opportunities.
Research software engineer and scientist positions#
We usually do not have any full time positions available. As and when these are available, they will be advertised here and via social media and Zulip.
If you would like to discuss applying for funding to work with us (e.g. a personal fellowship), please email Adam Tyson.