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The DiRAC HPC facility is the primary provider of state-of-the-art computing resources for the STFC theory communities in astronomy, cosmology, nuclear and particle physics. In order to maximise the science output of the facility, it is vital that our software is able to exploit the full processing power of the latest computing hardware. To achieve this, DiRAC supports a team of Research Software Engineers. I will present examples which demonstrate that this is an efficient way to drive scientific research forward, allowing researchers to focus on their science while using the skills of specialist software engineers to optimise their software and improve its portability and sustainability. I will describe how DiRAC projects have benefitted from access to Research Software Engineering expertise to modernise and optimise their science codes, and how such collaborations has reduced time-to-science. I will also discuss how early access to next generation architectures is helping us to plan for the deployment of DiRAC-3 systems.