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Job Number SU01334 Contract Type Fixed Term Salary £39,355 to £45,413 per annum Working Pattern Faculty/Directorate Faculty of Science and Engineering Location Bay Campus, Swansea Closing Date 5 Dec 2025 Interview Date 12 Dec 2025 Informal Enquiries
- Prof Oubay Hassan O.Hassan@Swansea.ac.uk
- Dr Jennifer Thompson Jennifer.Thompson@Swansea.ac.uk
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Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.
About The Role
We are recruiting a
Research Officer
to help deliver the EPSRC programme grant
REMODEL
, advancing
parallel
mesh
generation
and
geometry representation
for industrially relevant, high-fidelity simulations at
Exascale
. Based at
Swansea University
, you will play a central part in a
multi-institution
effort that combines artificial intelligence with computational engineering to accelerate and improve pre-simulation workflows.You will
lead the design, implementation and validation
of
AI-driven geometry processing methods
, developing algorithms and software for
automated defeaturing, feature detection and intelligent simplification informed by the governing physics
. This will include
training and deploying machine-learning models
that can recognise and classify geometric features critical to simulation accuracy, enabling the removal or simplification of features that do not affect physical performance. You will
integrate these capabilities into existing geometry and meshing workflows
, ensuring robustness, scalability and reproducibility across a range of engineering applications. You will
manage
defined tasks and milestones and
collaborate
closely with colleagues across the consortium to align interfaces and ensure interoperability. The successful applicant is expected to actively produce
peer-reviewed publications
arising from their developed techniques.At Swansea, you’ll join a
technically driven, publication-active team
known for computational modelling and meshing research, with a strong culture of code quality, open and reproducible practices, and mentoring. You’ll have access to modern development workflows and HPC resources, and opportunities to contribute to shared tooling used across the consortium.Applicants should demonstrate strong Python programming skills, experience with machine-learning libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, and familiarity with computational engineering workflows using solvers such as ANSYS or OpenFOAM. Equality, Diversity & InclusionThe University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.Welsh Language SkillsThe Welsh language level required for this role is Level 1 - A little. The role holder will be able to pronounce Welsh words, answer the phone in Welsh (good morning/afternoon) and use very basic everyday words and phrases (thank you, please etc.). Level 1 can be reached by completing a 1 hour course.The University is a proud bilingual institution, our Welsh Language Strategy outlines our aspiration to promote the language and enable our staff to engage with the language as an additional workplace skill and as a gateway to new cultural and social opportunities. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. Welsh speakers have the right to an interview in Welsh. Applicants for a role where Welsh skills are essential are expected to present their application in Welsh and will be interviewed in Welsh, if shortlisted.Additional InformationApplications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.Apply NowShareShare; Research OfficerShare this viaOr copy the linkDownload Job description Download FSE-Candidate-Brochure-(EN).pdf Print this page Back to list
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