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Job Details
Contractual hours: 35
Basis: Full time
Region: Scotland - Central
Package: Attractive benefits package. Please see below.
SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College) is a specialist higher education institution delivering tertiary education, research, and consultancy. SRUC’s principal purpose is to advance education, science, research, and environmental protection and improvement in rural and land-based industries, both domestically and internationally.
The Opportunity:
This is an opportunity to be a major contributor in a team leading research in animal breeding and genetics and working closely with the livestock industry providing routine genetic/genomic evaluations and decision support tools for farmers. The successful candidate will work within an integrated group of 25 programmers and geneticists, 5 of which work within EGENES. Our work is varied and interesting ranging from routine evaluations through to researching new phenotypes predicted from milk MIR and developed with Deep Learning. For instance, recently, we succeeded in the use of milk mid-infra red spectral data for Bovine tuberculosis prediction at the industry level, and we are looking for implementing similar strategies for other complex traits as feed intake, among others. We investigate hardware acceleration of compute intensive processes on GPUs and FPGAs and are constantly investigating new and better ways of doing things. Every day is different in EGENES.
We are seeking a geneticist who can take a major role in EGENES working closely with the other geneticists (Professor Raph Mrode, Dr Samir Id Lahoucine, Professor Mike Coffey) and the programming team to deliver efficiently and consistently genetic evaluations of the highest quality. A less experienced geneticist with the right approach and attitude may be considered. It is expected that the candidate will undertake necessary research to underpin practical application of developments in genetic evaluation methodologies including imputation strategies with very large datasets. We work with dairy and beef cattle, sheep, dairy goats, and pigs.
The role requires good communication skills as there will be regular client contact for development and testing purposes to ensure the evaluations meet their specifications.
Required Skills:
* Excellent numerical and statistical powers
* Programming experience and the ability to learn new languages
* Good communication ability
* Good analytical/problem-solving skills
* FORTRAN
* Scripting
* Genetic evaluation experience
Minimum Qualifications:
The successful candidate will be educated to PhD SCQF Level 12 in a relevant subject such as Genetics or Animal Breeding.
Eligibility for Sponsorship:
For the purposes of sponsorship, this role may be eligible for sponsorship depending on candidate circumstances.
Why work for SRUC?
* Generous annual leave
* Enhanced pension contributions (5% employee and 10% employer)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted RAC Membership
* Generous family leave
* Hybrid working solutions (in some areas)
* Tailored investment in and individuals' learning and development
How to Apply:
Please complete an online application form by clicking ‘Apply’.
Please read the Job Particulars document before applying.
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SRUC is committed to valuing Diversity, advancing Equality and respecting Human Rights throughout the organisation and encourages applications from disabled people using the “Disability Confident Employer” symbol. SRUC is a member of the Athena SWAN charter.
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