[Job-offers-cs] Postdoctoral Researcher in AI / ML Engineering [Academic Research Software Engineer], Aalto University

[Pekka Orponen]

Aalto University is looking for an

*Postdoctoral Researcher in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning 
Engineering [Academic Research Software Engineer]

*to a postdoctoral-level position. The desired start dates would be as 
soon as possible in 2025.

Are you more of a programmer than your researcher colleagues? Are you 
more of a researcher than commercial developers? Do you want a career 
that involves research and science but isn't the academic tenure track? 
The Academic Research Software Engineer position is your next step on 
that path.

This position will be similar to a postdoc, but with an emphasis on 
research infrastructure and technology rather than preparation for an 
academic career path. You will be involved in research, but more focused 
on learning and improving how computing, workflows, and data are used in 
research than finding your own novel research results and publishing them.

You will work in a research group and be affiliated withAalto Scientific 
Computing <https://scicomp.aalto.fi/about/>(ASC). You'll serve as an 
intermediary between the two. Compared to the staff of ASC, you will be 
directly based in a research group, much more involved in day-to-day 
research, follow projects for a much longer period, and more involved in 
publications. Compared to a typical academic position, you will have a 
joint affiliation with ASC and get extra training in research 
engineering. There will be less emphasis on novel results for the sake 
of novelty, and more on applying and developing best practices in the 
way the research is done.

*In this position, you will:

*

  * Serve as the local research software engineer for your research
    group(s) and improve the use of computing among all group members.
  * Stay up to date with the latest HPC, AI, and general computing/data
    management practices, evaluate latest developments, and implement
    whatever is most suitable.
  * Possibility to take part in publications as a research engineer.
  * Provide one-on-one and group research support from a software,
    programming, Linux, data, and infrastructure perspective: short-term
    projects helping researchers with specific tasks, so that the
    researchers gain competence to work independently.
  * Provide good role models of best open science practices.
  * As needed and depending on interest, teaching and other research
    infrastructure support.

*General qualifications*: As expected for a computational-science 
postdoc or doctoral student position in your field, with a special focus 
on high-quality computation and data management

*This particular call emphasizes general AI skills and interest to take 
part in MLOps, including (but not limited to) performance tracing for 
improved scalability, energy efficiency and fault tolerance in ML 
training / inference. We seek to improve our AI and machine learning 
work by bringing in tools to assist in training and inference, 
integrated with our cluster. You don't need special knowledge already 
when applying - general knowledge of machine learning practices is 
enough, and you'll learn more later.

**Important skills:

*

  * Desire to mentor and work with other researchers with understanding
    and compassion.
  * Ability to tackle any problem with a researcher's mindset and a
    developer's passion for technology.
  * Good communication and organizational skills, independent working
    style as well as flexibility in changing situations.
  * Experience or knowledge of the principles of open source software,
    open science, and software development tools such as version control.
  * Please seehttps://scicomp.aalto.fi/rse/become-a-rse/
    <https://scicomp.aalto.fi/rse/become-a-rse/>for more information on
    what kind of skills we value - or more precisely what you are likely
    to learn.
  * Good skills and experience in written, spoken, and collaborative
    work in English.

*What we offer*:

  * A career path optimized for transition to industry.
  * You will be affiliated with the dynamic Aalto Scientific Computing
    team, where you will learn from some of the best research IT
    specialists in Finland.
  * Co-working within top-quality research groups, getting experience in
    a wide variety of fields and developing an extensive network of
    scientific contacts. This includes contacts to the Aalto startup
    scene and community.
  * A way to be close to the research process while focusing on
    interesting computational problems and not the publication process.
  * Mentorship to improve your software, data, and computing skills –
    you are expected to engage in plenty of professional development.
  * Open Source is our expectation. All (or most) of your code may be
    open source and may be added to your public CV, depending on the
    needs of researchers.
  * Fixed-term contract until 29.2.2028.
  * All other standard benefits of Aalto as an employer: pleasant
    campus, occupational healthcare, a sustainable workplace, support
    and coaching, and robust opportunities for professional
    development.Read more
    <https://www.aalto.fi/en/careers-at-aalto/working-at-aalto>.

Salary will be according to the Aalto University pay scales for 
postdoctoral researchers. The primary workplace is Otaniemi, Espoo 
(Helsinki region), Finland.

More about Aalto University:

Aalto.fi<https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions>
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linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/<https://www.linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/>
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<http://www.aalto.fi/en/services/workday-recruiting-system-accessibility-interaction-overview>.
Please see more of our Open Positionshere. 
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