Technical Officer

Description:

Technical Officer - AI & Software Development

This role forms part of an exciting recruitment campaign within Technical Services, as we invest additional focus and resource into strengthening our capability across broadcast media technologies and the fast-evolving AI landscape. We are growing our Digital Arts team so that students and academics continue to benefit from industry-leading equipment, expertise and support as these fields advance at pace, and this is a great opportunity to help shape that development from the ground up.

About Our Team

Technical Services are a large and diverse team of highly skilled technical professionals who ensure the optimal functioning of specialist spaces and resources to deliver an exceptional student experience. We work in specialist laboratories, workshops, studios, resource centres and IT facilities.

Our technical professionals play a key role supporting, guiding, and advising students across our university from sciences, art, design and technology, through to sports, ceramics, nursing and physiotherapy.

About The Role And You

This role sits in the Digital Arts team, who provide specialist technical support to the School of Digital Arts (SODA) and the wider Arts & Humanities Faculty through managing studio spaces, supporting the delivery of Technical Skills Sessions to students and providing support to academics. The ideal candidate will offer positive and proactive support and have demonstrable expertise in AI, machine learning and software development, with particular emphasis on GPU/AI compute systems in a lab/workshop teaching environment.

They Will Be Experienced In
 

• Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face
• GPU and AI compute systems (NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA, cuDNN)
• reproducible development environments (Docker, Conda, Jupyter, Git)
• data and model workflow management, including dataset handling and version control
• local inference and model deployment