The purpose of this job is to join a new team that will develop free, open-source software for outbreak analytics, to support national and international preparedness and response. The roles will be part of the major new ‘Epiverse’ initiative at LSHTM, a joint collaboration between researchers in London and The Gambia supported by data.org, which builds on previous policy-relevant analysis for outbreaks such as COVID-19 and Ebola within our Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID), and analytics development programmes such as the R Epidemics Consortium and EpiForecasts.

Beyond contributions to code, documentation, testing, code reviews, and training, the successful candidates will ensure that tools are fully integrated in the current software ecosystem and build, when possible, on existing code bases. The post holders will be responsible for implementing the general software engineering vision and strategies outlined by the project’s leadership, and for releasing and maintaining software packages.