[Hiring] Research Engineer @Inria

Role Description

This research engineer position is part of the PILOT (Practices and Infrastructure for Long-Term Collaboration) project within the French national research programme PEPR eNSEMBLE (Future of Digital Collaboration). The project aims to design and develop the next generation of collaborative technologies that support sustainable, secure, and interoperable collaboration across organizational boundaries.

The successful candidate will join the LORELEY research team at the Inria Centre at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. They will work at the intersection of academic research and software engineering, collaborating closely with researchers, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and engineers from the PILOT consortium.

The position offers the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research on distributed collaborative systems and to transform scientific results into open-source software components, integrated prototypes, and demonstrators.

Qualifications

• Solid programming and software engineering skills
• Interest in distributed systems, collaborative applications, and security
• Experience in developing research prototypes, integrating software components, or contributing to open-source projects (advantageous)
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with researchers, engineers, and partners from different disciplines
• Curiosity, initiative, adaptability, and good communication skills
• Strong written and spoken English
• Knowledge of French (advantageous but not mandatory)

Requirements

• Contribute primarily to two complementary research axes of PILOT:
• Axis 2 - Open Technical Frameworks and Protocols for Long-Term Collaboration
• Axis 4 - Actionable Guidelines and Demonstrators for Long-Term Collaboration
• Design, implement, integrate, and evaluate research prototypes of distributed and secure collaborative applications
• Develop and maintain an open-source repository of PILOT software components, prototypes, and demonstrators
• Contribute to the technical evaluation of developed solutions
• Collaborate with PILOT partners and contribute to technical documentation, project deliverables, presentations, and dissemination activities

Benefits

• Subsidized meals
• Partial reimbursement of public transport costs
• Leave: 7 weeks of annual leave + 10 extra days off due to RTT + possibility of exceptional leave
• Possibility of teleworking and flexible organization of working hours
• Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of computer equipment, etc.)
• Social, cultural and sports events and activities
• Access to vocational training
• Social security coverage

Company Description

PILOT brings together 15 partner institutions and approximately 25 research teams, aiming to overcome the limitations of existing collaborative platforms.