Summer fellowships – data science

Open to UGs, grads, and PhD students –

Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship – DSSGx

Following the success of last year’s Data Science for Social Good initiative, The Alan Turing Institute is again leading the UK 12-week summer fellowship, in partnership with University of Warwick and Imperial College London.

This year’s fellowship (DSSGx) will run from 15 June to 5 September at the University of Warwick campus, and offers a competitive stipend. DSSGx is an independently organised programme affiliated with the DSSG Foundation at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

DSSGx gives aspiring data scientists the opportunity to work on data mining, machine learning, and data science projects with social impact. Participants will work with global non-profit organisations and government bodies to make a real-world social impact with their data, by improving their services, interventions, and outreach.

You are invited to apply before 31 January 12:00 (CST).

 

https://www.turing.ac.uk/collaborate-turing/data-science-social-good?_cldee=aG1kMUBhYmVyLmFjLnVr&esid=0c147e84-f336-ea11-a813-002248070f4c&recipientid=contact-6214620fd390e811813470106faae7f1-d4f494dd982144e6989af1696c733b4f

 

 

BBC engineering trainee scheme

We are currently recruiting for our Broadcast Engineering Trainee Scheme here at the BBC, we have roles available at many of our offices across the UK, so we’re keen to promote this to local students/graduates as much as possible.

Just as a brief overview we’re looking for the following:

  • Someone to hold a degree (at least a 2:2 or equivalent) in Electronics, Physics, Maths, Computer Science or a closely related subject, coupled with high level of logical and mathematical reasoning skills. Accreditation of your under graduate degree by a professional body such as IET, IMechE desirable.
  • Someone to bring a sound knowledge of audio, video and broadcasting principles and an understanding of the demands of a broadcasting environment

More details on the role and an online application form can be found using the following link – https://careershub.bbc.co.uk/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=44896

 

Agxio – AI and ML in agriculture

Agxio are a a relatively new AI and Machine Learning Technology business focused on the Agriculture industry and is now forming a team to be based at the Aberystwyth Innovation and Enterprise Campus (which is located near to Aberystwyth University). The team will be focused on helping to complete and evolve the new Agxio command centre and to also help develop a number of new market leading products. The plan is to build a Centre of Excellence at the AIEC for a number of product streams and this new team will form the basis of this.

They’ve sent through ads for five separate jobs – Data Architect, Enterprize Architect, Machine Learning Dev, Tech support and Visualisation and Low Code Dev. These are all aimed at recent grads. Adverts can be found on the grad portal which all students and grads should have access to www.aber.ac.uk/ABERcareers

http://www.agxio.com

Grad programme (not compsci, but looks interesting and useful!)

Two-year Leadership Graduate Programme – Apply Now!

Unlocked Graduates is a two-year programme that is putting brilliant graduates and career changers at the heart of prison reform. At the moment, nearly half of all prisoners reoffend within a year of release, creating yet more victims, causing untold damage, and costing the UK more than £18bn. Officers on our programme are working to help prisoners escape this cycle.

We were the highest new entrant in The Times Top 100 Graduate Jobs ranking this year and have had more interest from applicants than ever before. But we are also recruiting our biggest ever cohort this year. For the best chance of joining us in 2020 get your application in by Friday 13th December.

If you join our unique leadership programme, you will work as frontline prison officer while completing a fully-funded master’s degree in leadership. You will change people’s lives for the better and have an impact on wider society and earn a starting salary of up to £30,000. 

As part of the programme you will also get the opportunity to complete a work placement with a wide range of fascinating organisations. From KPMG and PA Consulting to the Ministry of Justice and the African Prisons Project.

Since 2016 Unlocked has placed over 250 new officers in some of the most challenging prisons across the country.

 What are we looking for? 

  • You are an ambitious problem solver
  • You are a good negotiator
  • You have a 2:1 in any degree or above
  • You have a grade C in GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent

Why you should apply?

  • Fully-funded master’s qualification
  • Starting salary up to £30k
  • Work placement opportunities from KPMG to the Ministry of Justice
  • Develop transferable skills in leadership, negotiating, building relationships, making high-pressure decisions
  • Opportunity to contribute to changing policy on prison reform
  • Lead change to one of society’s biggest issues


For a graduate scheme that allows you to show you’ve got what it takes to be successful, apply now to Unlocked Graduates!

Grad jobs, Red Hat

Couple of jobs (grad) going at Red Hat. Got these links from an aber grad who says:

 

“For the last few years, we have been running a graduate program, and have recently opened up applications for next year’s intake.

We have two types of graduate role open, Professional Services Consultant [1] and Solutions Architect [2]. It would be great if you could share these open positions with the department – we have had great representation from Cardiff over the last 2 years, so it would be good to see some Aberystwyth grads coming through the door!

[1] https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/73964/graduate-consultant/job?hub=7

[2] https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/73967/graduate-solutions-architect/job?hub=7 ”

Network support officer, Ruthin

Had this job ad through from an Aber Grad who runs a company in Ruthin (North Wales). It’s for a network support operator, and the salary is in excess of £25k.
The company are on facebook, twitter and linkedin (see below)

12 month placements for IT / Computing within JDE (coffee company)

 

Are you looking for a 12-month IT & computing placement for 2019/20? Do you want real responsibility with the chance to influence household name coffee brands including Tassimo, Kenco, L’Or and Jacobs?

 

Global Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company (FMCG) JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) is looking for year-in-industry students from technical degree backgrounds to join their diverse, global team of over 15,000 coffee champions, on 12-month placements in IT and computing.

IT: https://employers.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde/job/it-jde/?ref=DEPT

R&D: https://employers.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde/job/research-development/?ref=DEPT

Finance: https://employers.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde/job/jde-finance/?ref=DEPT

Company Jacobs Douwe Egberts
Location Banbury, Oxfordshire
Roles 12-month Year in Industry Placements in IT
Salary £18,500 + £1,000 sign-on bonus
Assessment dates 26th November – 7th December 2019
Start Date July 2020
Deadline 9th November 2019

 

Who is the company?

– JDE is a €5 billion global business with around 15,000 associates based in 28 different countries, selling their brands in over 100 different countries around the world. 

– Formed in 2015, JDE retains a start-up feel containing some of the leading brands in the Coffee and Tea industry including – Kenco, L’OR, Tassimo and Douwe Egberts to name a few.

– JDE UK is headquartered in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which is one of JDE’s global ‘Power Plants’ responsible for producing 20,000 tonnes of coffee per year across 9 production lines.

– The UK represents a top 5 global market for JDE and continues to be a growth engine for the category, driving premiumisation by leading the single-serve partition with the Tassimo brand and premiumising the instant coffee segment through Kenco, L’OR and the Douwe Egberts brands.

– JDE believes amazing things can happen over a cup of coffee and with values including Entrepreneurship, Solidarity, Accountability, Simplicity and Discipline working at JDE offers you an exciting opportunity to make an impact in the world’s largest pure play coffee company.

– JDE’s goal is simple but ambitious: a coffee for every cup.

 

Everyone deserves the coffee they love.

 

What are the roles?

A placement in IT at JDE will be very varied and you will be getting stuck into lots of different tasks, depending on business needs at the time.

You will either be working in Retail:

– This IT placement involves supporting IT operations for end user services, local infrastructure, and ensuring that applications are aligned and meet business needs.

– You will be supporting the Infrastructure Specialist in local and end user services

– You will be responsible for the maintenance and delivery of web systems

– You will work with application and infrastructure vendors to resolve issues

 

Or Manufacturing:

– This IT placement involves working with the Plant Systems team in relation to any system or production issue

– You will be leading on the creation and development of network Policies

– You will maintain updates, patching and antivirus of computer operating systems and applications

– You will catalog, document and verify backups and archives as well as document and maintain system policies

One application will consider you for both roles!

Why should you apply?

Travel: JDE provide awesome opportunities to travel. Last year around half the placement students travelled abroad.

Fantastic perks: 25 days holiday, free hot beverages (not just coffee!) and even Barista training!

Student Charity Committee: Every Friday all the placement students get together for a fun charity meeting. Last year their charity work raised over £30,000 in total.

Culture: At JDE they have a friendly, hands-on environment where everyone is encouraged to contribute and all opinions are valued. There is also a strong mentoring programme and you will be periodically reporting to senior business stakeholders and interacting with other placement students. 

Corporate Social Responsibility: From sourcing ingredients responsibly with internationally recognised standards, to partnering directly with suppliers to improve working conditions and protect natural resources, and aiming to make all manufacturing sites landfill free by 2020, at JDE they are driven by their passion for coffee & tea, care for people and respect for the environment. 

 

Who is best suited to this role?

– You must be studying for a technical degree (such as computing & IT) and have an interest in IT and technology systems.

– You must be a good communicator with excellent attention to detail and be willing to get stuck in.

– You must be an undergraduate looking for a 12-month Year-in-Industry placement from July 2020 to July 2021.

 

Click here to apply now: 

https://employers.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde/job/it-jde/?ref=DEPT

It only takes 30 seconds to register your interest in these roles, and we’ll support you throughout the full application process

Software engineering job, Komatsu Worcester

Software Engineers from Aber might want to join the Komatsu Mining Longwall Control and Automation department in Worcester. https://mining.komatsu/

All the equipment is SIL rated and safety critical, predominately the software is C/C++ based following a MISRA Like standard. However we also develop a HMI which is Java based, and an archive server in MySql, and in office tools using varying languages.

We take an agile approach with daily scrums, source control with GIT and PVCS, with planning on VSTS.

Reuben a recent aber grad writes “Personally i feel it was a great place to come to, I was thrown into development early on and have learnt so much from the wealth of knowledge in the team, and had the opportunity to visit onsite customers in Australia, and even go underground. We are often looking for new engineers to join the team so if you think it would be of use for some grads then feel free to email” (email removed for the blog posting but if you want to get in touch contact Hannah Dee who’ll pass details on)

Junior developer job, Backbase, Amsterdam

Another job ad through from a recent Aber grad:

The particular team is looking for people who are junior and who want to learn – there’s a good progression (Roberto confirms this) and they’re looking ahead to tech which will be big in online banking in a few years; this is very much at the “new ideas” end of banking tech. Based in Amsterdam.

https://workatbackbase.com/job/junior-java-backend-developer-product-development/

Junior developer positions – remote friendly, with office in Madrid

This job comes via another aber grad :

He’s hiring for a new company he’s founded, and has 2 junior opening positions:

1. Backend NodeJS developer. *Stack*.
Express, Unit & Integration testing, docker, AWS, SQL/NOSQL, GitHub, DRY and DevOps philosophy

2. Frontend NodeJS developer.
*Stack*: React/Vue, Redux/Vuex, GitHub, HTML+CSS+JS, UX design.

Salary: 24k – 30k (presume this is Euros ~Hannah)

Remote friendly but offices are in Madrid.

https://rookielabs.io/

Roke – varied grad roles, multiple locations in UK

Neil H, a recent grad, writes:

Roke are looking for multiple graduate roles (multiple locations) to be filled mostly for a 2020 intake. a list can be found here:

https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/roke/vacancies.aspx

The jobs look pretty varied – engineer, software engineer, cyber security, business analyst etc. etc. so if you’re searching take a look – Roke are a big company and apparently they want to take on lots of grads for 2020.

If anyone wants to apply they can do so through the site or Neil can send their CV directly to recruiting, this also acts as recommendation. He says “It would be great to see more from Aberystwyth here as they are aware of the great work the department does and favour the modules we study also.” – if you want to take advantage of the “Neil” route of CV submission, get in touch with me (Hannah Dee hmd1@aber.ac.uk) and I’ll pass it on.