Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, about 9,300 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.
We are looking for Institute for Biological Interfaces 3 – Macromolecular Materials (IBG 3) as soon as possible and limited for 2 years a
Computer Scientist (f/m/d)
As part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (
NFDI) for Chemistry (
NFDI4Chem), we search a (web) developer or information scientist to establish a
FAIR) research data management (RDM) infrastructure for the chemistry community in Germany and beyond.
You will work in a young team of service and software developers to develop software in the NFDI4Chem in direct contact to scientists and the data center at KIT. The working group currently consists of different developers with focus on cheminformatics and information science and will be extended to a larger group due to the exciting challenges of digitalization of scientific work. Current planned topics deal with the improvement and extension of our Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and the repository for research data, the development of new information systems in a Smart Lab, and the implementation of data viewers. The development team is involved in several projects with national and international visibility (Chemotion ELN, Chemotion repository;
https://github.com/ComPlat).
The aims and tasks of your work within this open position are:
- The development of software for the establishment and improvement of smart labs
- Code management using e.g. GitLab and GitHub
- Bug Fixing and the work on user requests concerning the designed software
- Integration of polymer specific devices and calculation tools into Chemotion ELN and Chemotion repository
- Extension of the Ketcher editor with respect to polymer chemistry
- Documentation of the developments
Requirements for the position are a finished university degree (diploma (university) / master's) in informatics, computer sciences, engineering or natural sciences (preferably with at least basic knowledge of polymer chemistry) and very good programming skills. Several years of experience in software development are required. Skills in modern programming languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and experience with databases (SQL or NoSQL) and file systems are desired. Applicants should be fast in learning new programming languages and enthusiastic in the work on new tasks.
We offer you an attractive and modern workplace with access to the excellent equipment of the KIT, a varied work, a wide range of training opportunities and a casino/cafeteria.
We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.
Please apply
online until 31.05.2021 using the vacancy number
256/2021 and the
reference number 6 to Ms Perkovic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Human Resources, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. For further information, please contact Dr. Dominik Voll (
dominik.voll@kit.edu) or Prof. Dr. Patrick Theato (
patrick.theato@kit.edu).
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