If you want to make a difference and are fascinated by how technology works, come and join a leading team responsible for supercomputing and allied services at the University of Birmingham!
The Advanced Research Computing team that runs Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) services is looking for two graduates (recently graduated or in final year of study) to grow into Research Infrastructure Engineers. You will help design, build and support the infrastructure used by some of the world’s leading researchers in fields as diverse as cancer research, new battery technologies and climate science; the kind of things that will make the world a better place.
The team manages large-scale computing infrastructure, including local and national supercomputing and AI facilities (BlueBEAR, Baskerville & CLIMB), and over 15 petabytes of storage, as well as private cloud, networking, datacentres, gitlab, wikis, websites, and databases, supporting a range of world leading research.
If you have some experience working with Linux (in your studies, your job, or somewhere else) and want to get to grips with the tech from the bottom up, then this could be the role and the team for you. You will find us an open, innovative and supportive team, committed to sharing knowledge and learning from others.
You can read about the journey of one of our previous graduates in Salih’s blog post here. Salih is still working in the Advanced Research Computing team and is now in a more senior Research Infrastructure Engineer role.
Please note that although the closing date is Tuesday 24 February 2026, we are flexible about the starting date, which could be at any point during 2026. Whilst the posts are currently only viewable to internal staff, we expect the posts to go live to external candidates on 10 February – when we will post the link here.
