We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY
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We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team at the Bennett Institute. The role is centred around OpenSAFELY, a highly secure, modular, open source data analysis platform, combining best practice from both academia and the open source software community. OpenSAFELY is deployed across the full electronic health records of 55 million patients.
What will you do?
You will have the opportunity to be involved in various platform-related activities, including (but not restricted to):
- Building tools and dashboards to gain insights from routinely-collected health data
- Innovating processes and tools for statistical disclosure control of outputs released from OpenSAFELY
- Developing, maintaining, and documenting reproducible analytic pipelines for evaluating trends and variation in clinical practice
- Producing automated data quality checks and data validity reports
- Co-piloting external OpenSAFELY users
There are also several ongoing research projects within the Bennett Institute using OpenSAFELY, that you can get involved with:
- NIHR-funded research to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines for respiratory viruses, in collaboration with the Univeristy of Bristol and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Wellcome supported NHS Talking Therapies research
- NIHR-funded Winter pressures and service delivery planning, with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- NHS England’s Primary Care and Medicines Analytics Unit
If you have a specific interest in working on any of these projects, please get in touch!
We’re open to applications from experienced researchers and analysts familiar with health data, whether in academia, industry, or the NHS / civil service (roughly postdoctoral level or equivalent experience).
How to apply
You’ll find more details about the role and how to apply on our jobs site.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Friday 03 October 2025.
In your application, please tell us how you meet the vacancy criteria.
If you have any questions about the role or application process, please contact Will Hulme.
You can see all our current open roles on our vacancies page.
Read more about the Bennett Institute on our website.