[vtkusers] Software engineer position available at the INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

[olivier clatz]

Dear all,

we are opening another software engineer position at INRIA Sophia
Antipolis on the French Riviera, within the Asclepios research team:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/

The engineer's task will be to develop MedINRIA v2.0, a
clinically-oriented image processing and visualization software based
on ITK, VTK and Qt.

The detailed job description is included at the end of this mail. The
position is available now.
Respond promptly, we are interviewing right now !

Please send your application to me :
olivier.clatz_at_inria.fr

Regards,

Olivier

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Location:
INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée research center
2004, route des Lucioles – BP 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis
France – French Riviera

Hosting Laboratory: ASCLEPIOS - INRIA
Duration: 12 months, renewable
Starting Date: ASAP

Salary:
30K Euros without experience
33K Euros 3 years of working experience
37K Euros 3 years of working experience + Ph.D
Negotiable if more than 5 years of experience

Benefits:
9 weeks of hollidays, social security and retirement plan included


Requirement: Master of Science or equivalent
Environment: INRIA, the French national institute for research in
computer science is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in
information and communication science and technology (ICST). By
playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and
being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in
the development of ICST in France. INRIA has a workforce of 3 800 and
approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA
research project-teams.

The Asclepios research project has three main objectives:
+ Analysis of Biomedical Images with advanced geometrical, statistical,
physical and functional models.
+ Simulation of Physiological Systems with Computational Models built from
biomedical images and other signals.
+ Application of previous tools to Medicine and Biology to assist
prevention, diagnosis and therapy.

Activities:
The software engineer will be in charge of the development of MedINRIA
v2.0, an open-source (BSD license), cross-platform (Windows, Linux and
MacOSX) clinically-oriented image processing and visualization
software. The engineer will be assigned three main tasks:
1. Contribute to the development of the core architecture of MedINRIA v2.0,
participate actively to technical discussions and to the decision-making
process, and suggest original solutions to technical problems
2. Transfer the knowhow from existing libraries and softwares of the
Asclepios team into MedINRIA v2.0*, and assist Ph.D. students and
researchers transferring theirs
3. Ensure the diffusion of the software by writing documentation and
tutorials, animate the user community, publish articles in medical journals,
and promote it during conferences

Skills:
- Priority is given to candidates having experience in: QT, VTK, ITK, CMake.
- A Strong computer science background is required. The candidate must
have a good understanding of the necessary tools used in a development
 project: source code management systems, compilers / debugging tools
on the 3 targeted OS, testing and automatic build systems
- Programming Language C++. An excellence in C++ is mandatory for this project.
- English spoken and written. French is optional ;-)
- Familiar with the Design Patterns
- Experience with Dicom file format and PACS system would be greatly
appreciated.

Application:
Please send your resume and cover letter to Olivier Clatz:
olivier.clatz_at_sophia.inria.fr