R&d Engineer

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**Type de contrat **:CDD**Contrat renouvelable **:Oui**Niveau de diplôme exigé **:Thèse ou équivalent**Fonction **:Ingénieur scientifique contractuelA propos du centre ou de la direction fonctionnelle

Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences, promotes scientific excellence and technology transfer to maximise its impact.
It employs 2,400 people. Its 200 agile project teams, generally with academic partners, involve more than 3,000 scientists in meeting the challenges of computer science and mathematics, often at the interface of other disciplines.
Inria works with many companies and has assisted in the creation of over 160 startups.
It strives to meet the challenges of the digital transformation of science, society and the economy.

Contexte et atouts du poste

**About Inria, the team and the position**

Inria is the only French public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Inria's missions are to produce outstanding research in the computing and mathematical fields of digital sciences and to ensure its impact on the economy and society through technology transfer and innovation. Throughout its 8 research centres and its approximately 200 project teams, Inria has a workforce of 3 400 scientists with an annual budget of 265 million euros, 29% of which coming from its own resources. Inria Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique is one of the eight sites of Inria. This publicly funded research center has a workforce of about 620 people, including full-time research scientists, faculty staff, engineers and support staff, distributed in 33 teams and support services.

Mission confiée

**Mission overview**

By joining our team you will participate in a dynamic work environment with exceptionally talented and friendly coworkers who are committed to high-quality research and development practices. You will collaborate with esteemed researchers from around the world by taking the technical responsibility for the development of the E2Clab software, with the following global goals:

- Make E2Clab evolve towards a distributable, professional-quality software (technical support, documentation, management of the web site);
- Interact with potential users and build demonstrators with the goal to increase E2Clab's visibility and adoption.

Principales activités

Detailed missions
- Test and improve the E2Clab code, build non-regressive robustness and performance tests, set up a continuous code integration process;
- Develop the incipient documentation by writing a complete and up-to-date documentation (reference manual, user manual);
- Write extensive example codes to facilitate learning of the interface by new users;
- Design and maintain a profesional-quality web site facilitating the distribution of the code and of its documentation;
- Design and implementation of software demonstrators.

Compétences

**Required qualifications**- Excellent, demonstrated programming skills in Python (including libraries for parallel processing in Python, e.g., Ray, Dask);
- Very good knowledge of hardware and software technologies in the areas of distributed computing and Big Data;
- Experience with container management tools (Docker, Singularity) and knowledge of automation tools (Ansible) would be very useful;
- Knowledge of IoT/edge communication protocols (e.g., MQTT);
- Very good knowledge of methodologies for managing software projects;
- Ability to analyze and synthesize user requirements;
- Ability to communicate and work in collaboration with experts in the same area and in other areas, in English;
- Autonomy in leading and performing the tasks;
- Sense of partnership and team spirit;
- Taste for transmitting and sharing knowledge, results, progress;
- Facility to present the results in written and oral form.

Avantages
- Subsidised catering service
- Partially-reimbursed public transport

Rémunération

monthly gross salary from 2979 euros according to diploma and experience