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The Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing is seeking to recruit a Research Software Engineer to support major research projects in generative AI, computer vision and LLM development. You will join an established research group within a highly rated research department, with an excellent computing and software infrastructure for first class research, modern facilities and close links with industry. Surrey&rsquo;s Institute for People-Centred AI builds on 40 years of work into foundational AI at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) which is ranked 1st in the UK for Computer Vision and in the top-5 for both Audio-Visual AI and Robotics (CS Rankings, 2025).
The post sits within Professor Bowden&rsquo;s sign language research group at CVSSP, which leads a portfolio of major collaborative projects developing AI for sign languages. These include SignGPT, a five-year EPSRC Programme Grant with the University of Oxford and UCL building tools to translate automatically between spoken language and photo-realistic sign language video in both directions; UMCS, a UK and Japan collaboration developing real-time sign language translation in everyday conversation; and a Google.org-funded project reducing the cost of sign language translation through AI.
The Research Software Engineer will support and contributing to related research across the group, working on data management, front end demonstration software, AI model training, and inference and prediction, and on the construction and maintenance of a visual language toolkit that supports the research collaboration and its dissemination activities. The applicant should preferably have a PhD in a related area, but experience of software development in a research environment is key. Previous experience of sign language recognition and translation would be advantageous but not essential. The candidate should have good analytical and programming skills and experience of computer vision and machine learning; previous experience of real-time systems development in Python, PyTorch and deep learning would be desirable.
The post will also involve full-stack software development to turn research models into usable tools and demonstrators, so experience of back-end development (for example REST/API services, databases and containerised deployment) and of building web front-ends to expose models and data is highly desirable. Applicants are expected to be proactive, to support others and to be self-motivated. The post is full time and offered for 3 years in the first instance. Salary will be in the range &pound;37,694 to &pound;56,535 per annum, on Levels 4 and 5. The work will involve Deaf people and users of British Sign Language (BSL), and through wider collaborative links, users of other international sign languages. Knowledge of sign language and awareness of Deaf culture would be advantageous. Deaf candidates with suitable experience would be welcome to apply.
The University of Surrey is a global university with a world-class research profile and an enterprising spirit, located in one of the safest counties in England, within 35 minutes of London by train and minutes away from the Surrey Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Recent investments have seen the opening of a world-class Sports Park and important updates to central facilities.
We can offer a generous remuneration package, which includes relocation assistance where appropriate, an attractive research environment, the latest teaching facilities and access to a variety of staff development opportunities.
Informal enquiries related to the project to Professor Richard Bowden by e-mail: r.bowden@surrey.ac.uk.
Please upload your CV and a covering letter.
Further details
For more information and to apply online, please download the further details and click on the 'apply online' button.
In return we offer a generous pension, relocation assistance where appropriate , flexible working options including job and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties), access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.
The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.
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<br><div><div>Job Details</div>
<div><div><div>Department</div>
<div>Centre of Vision, Speech &amp; Signal Processing</div>
<div>Location</div>
<div>Guildford</div>
<div>Salary</div>
<div>&pound;47,389 to &pound;56,535
</div><div>Fixed Term</div>
<div>Post Type</div>
<div>Full Time</div>
<div>Closing Date</div>
<div>23.59 hours BST on Friday 03 July 2026
</div><div>Interview Date</div>
<div>Wednesday 15 July 2026
</div><div>Reference</div>
<div>029326</div></div></div></div><div></div>

Research Software Engineer

<div><div><p>The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research.</p><p>
We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourselves into one of the best universities in the world, which we are achieving through the talents and endeavour of every employee.</p><p>
Our culture empowers people to achieve this aim and to collectively, and individually, make a real difference.</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
The role</b></h3><p>
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow (RF) position for 12 months within the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK, to work on building machine learning and AI models for perceptual quality prediction of spatial music.</p><p>
The post is funded by a leading industry partner. The focus will be to develop machine learning and AI models and signal processing algorithms for perceptual quality prediction and rating of songs reproduced using 3D rendering algorithms.</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
About you</b></h3><p>
The post-holder is expected to have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in machine learning, spatial audio, audio signal processing, audio perception, audio quality assessment, or a related area in electronic engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or statistics. Preference will be given to those who have experience on machine learning/AI, spatial audio, but candidates who have experience in audio perception and signal processing are welcome to apply. The post-holder is expected to have strong analytical and programming skills in Python, Matlab or C/C++. The post-holder will also collaborate with other team members, such as the Research Fellow who focuses on listening tests and data curation.</p><p>
The post-holder will be based in CVSSP, and work under the direction of the Principal Investigator Prof Wenwu Wang, and in collaboration with the industrial partner.</p><p>
CVSSP is an International Centre of Excellence for research in Audio-Visual Machine Perception and AI, with over 180 researchers. The Centre has state-of-the-art audio and video capture and analysis facilities supporting research in real-time video and audio processing and visualisation. CVSSP has a compute facility with 300 GPUs and &gt;2PB of high-speed secure storage. The post-holder will also have access to the compute resources from Surrey Institute of People Centred AI, including 200+ state-of-the-art GPUs.</p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
How to apply</b></h3><p>
Please apply with your CV and cover letter on the University website.</p><p>
For informal inquiries, please contact Prof Wenwu Wang (Email: w.wang@surrey.ac.uk; Web: https://personalpages.surrey.ac.uk/w.wang/).</p><p>
The University of Surrey reserves the right to close this vacancy early or extend based on Volume and Calibre of applications.</p>
</div><div><b>Further details</b></div><div></div><div><div><br>
</div></div><div><div><p>For more information and to apply online, please download the further details and click on the 'apply online' button.<br>
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In return we offer a generous pension, relocation assistance where appropriate , flexible working options including job and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties), access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.</p><p><br>
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The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.</p></div></div></div><p></p>
<br><div><div>Job Details</div>
<div><div><div>Department</div>
<div>Centre of Vision, Speech &amp; Signal Processing</div>
<div>Location</div>
<div>Guildford</div>
<div>Salary</div>
<div>&pound;37,694 to &pound;43,482 per annum
</div><div>Post Type</div>
<div>Full Time</div>
<div>Closing Date</div>
<div>23.59 hours BST on Sunday 05 July 2026
</div><div>Interview Date</div>
<div>To be confirmed
</div><div>Reference</div>
<div>026926</div></div></div></div><div></div>

Research Fellow on Machine Learning for Perceptual Quality Prediction of Spatial Music

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