[Hiring] Research Engineer @Inria

Role Description

The recruited research engineer will be involved in the ODISSEE (Online Data Intensive Solutions for Science in the Exabytes Era) European research project. Research sectors such as high-energy physics and astronomy offer critical insights that have the potential to revolutionise research and development, leading to breakthroughs in theoretical fields. However, these areas often require intensive research, expensive tools, and substantial long-term funding, without which their results may be limited.

The EU-funded ODISSEE project will bring together the efforts of three pan-European ESFRI infrastructures in the physical and computer sciences, alongside several other key sectors, to enhance European excellence and leadership in astronomy, high-energy physics, and information technology (IT). The project will provide access to essential high-quality hardware, software, R&D programmes and state-of-the-art experimental facilities to support key scientific projects and researchers, particularly those focused on the search for dark matter.

Main activities will concern:

• Explore methodology, metrics and allocation rules for realistic environmental results;
• Contribute to the creation of software framework to provide an environmental assessment service/agent for large scale distributed platforms;
• Develop a carbon calculator and multi-metric tools to provide and report pertinent information to platform users;
• Participate in the co-design of new generations of wattmeters and their experimental deployment;
• Create the necessary ecosystem (documentation, reproducibility artifacts) to facilitate the provision and deployment of this service across all ODISSEE project partners;
• Contribute to scientific publications and dissemination of results;

Qualifications

• Skills in programming languages and scripting
• English speaking
• Autonomy and curiosity
• Open minded
• Team working
• Capacity to write English reports and papers
• Sense of organization, autonomy, rigor

Benefits

• Subsidized meals
• Partial reimbursement of public transport costs
• Leave: 7 weeks of annual leave + 10 extra days off due to RTT (statutory reduction in working hours) + possibility of exceptional leave (sick children, moving home, etc.)
• Possibility of teleworking (90 days / year) and flexible organization of working hours
• Social, cultural and sports events and activities
• Access to vocational training
• Social security coverage

Company Description

The Inria research centre in Lyon is the 9th Inria research centre, formally created in January 2022. It brings together approximately 410 people in 20 research teams and research support services. Its staff are distributed in Villeurbanne, Lyon Gerland, and Saint-Etienne. The Lyon centre is active in the fields of software, distributed and high-performance computing, embedded systems, quantum computing and privacy in the digital world, but also in digital health and computational biology.