[alife] Junior engineer position in Lyon, France

Carole Knibbe carole.knibbe at gmail.com
Wed Jun 4 03:09:52 PDT 2014



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                Junior engineer position available on

       SIMULATION OF EVOLVING MICROORGANISMS

                       Inria Beagle Team
                             Lyon, France
 
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Two-year position starting fall 2014.


Research Group 

The research of the Beagle team is at the interface between biology and computer science. We aim at contributing new results in cellular and evolutionary biology by modeling and simulating biological systems. 

Mission

The engineer will contribute to the development of Aevol (http://www.aevol.fr), a software platform for simulating experimental evolution of microorganisms. In Aevol, populations of digital microorganisms with artificial DNA sequences evolve in various conditions, allowing researchers to study the impact of environmental changes or mutation rates on genome evolution. The mission will consist in improving the performances, the software-quality and ease of use of Aevol. In particular, a distributed implementation of the platform will be developed using MPI.


Required training

Engineering degree or equivalent in computer science, with diploma obtained in 2013 or 2014.

 
Skills and profile

Very good programming skills (C, C++) with an interest in performance/optimization.
Experience in software engineering (object oriented, version control system, compilation chain, tests).
Basic skills and motivation for parallel programming (MPI appreciated).
Interest in microbiology and evolution.
Motivation for team work in an interdisciplinary environment.
Good level of English.


Monthly gross salary

 2530 euros


Keywords

Software development, software quality, code performance, parallel programming, MPI, evolutionary biology, genome evolution


Contact

carole.knibbe at inria.fr



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