Diamond’s 12 month ‘Year in Industry’ placement scheme allows undergraduate students studying for a relevant degree such as Engineering, Software/Computing, Physics, Chemistry or Biology, to gain experience working at a world-class research centre. If you or any of your collaborators are involved with the teaching or development of undergraduate students, I would be grateful if you could cascade the information.

The students will work on their own project during the year, with support from their supervisors and collaborating with staff across the organisation. We have an excellent track record for helping students execute work which is valued by the whole Diamond community. You can read about the programme, and each of the available projects on our website:

Students will also have the opportunity to get involved with other areas of work to gain a wider view of the full range of what a synchrotron does. Training and experience is also provided in the following areas:

• Presentation training to prepare for the final talk on the project
• Poster design as an important skill for the communication of science
• Python programming
• Science communication to the public, including training and involvement at events
• An internal programme of seminars and talks from leading scientists
• Tours and talks of other science facilities across the Harwell Campus, such as ISIS and the Central Laser facility

For example, in 2018, some of the Year in Industry students went to the Bluedot Science and Music festival to represent Diamond, and students have also gone to New Scientist Live and other external events.

Placement students must be registered as an undergraduate for the duration of their time at Diamond and ensure that they can commit to the whole 12-month period. Placements typically start during the summer between academic years 2 and 3. Applicants should be expecting to gain a first or 2:1 honours degree. For the positions advertised, students will need to either:

• Be a UK/EEA national
  or
• Hold a tier 4 Visa and have a year in industry (sandwich year) as a part of their degree.

The deadline for applications is midnight on Thursday 1st November 2018 . Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a student recruitment day on Tuesday 20th November and Friday 23rd November 2018.

We are looking for a Computational Software Engineer to undertake one or more projects within our Development Division. The precise nature of the projects will depend on our business needs at the time and on the successful candidate’s skills, but typical examples could be:

• Porting and testing versions of NAG software to different software or hardware environments.
• Writing code to implement new algorithms in the NAG Library, along with suitable test programs and documentation.
• Re-writing code contributed by third-parties to NAG standards and incorporating it into the NAG Library.
• Using software tools to investigate code coverage of existing test programs.
• Developing programs which demonstrate the capabilities and advantages of NAG software, to be used by our sales and marketing staff when meeting customers, attending trade shows etc.

This post is based at NAG’s head office in Oxford. The successful candidate will be mentored by an experienced member of staff, and will spend most of his or her time working in a small team. At the end of the placement, she or he will have gained experience developing world-class technical software in a commercial setting.

The placement will be for twelve months, starting on a mutually agreed date in Summer 2018. The annual salary will be £18,500, with 30 days holiday per year in addition to statutory holidays.

https://www.nag.co.uk/content/student-placement-computational-software-engineer