Data‑brokering Engineer for Microbiome and Health Data

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The French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) is a major player in research and innovation. It is a community of 12,000 people with 272 research, experimental research, and support units located in 18 regional centres throughout France. Internationally, INRAE is among the top research organisations in the agricultural and food sciences, plant and animal sciences, as well as in ecology and environmental science. It is the world’s leading research organisation specialising in agriculture, food and the environment. INRAE’s goal is to be a key player in the transitions necessary to address major global challenges. Faced with a growing world population, climate change, resource scarcity, and declining biodiversity, the Institute has a major role to play in building solutions and supporting the necessary acceleration of agricultural, food and environmental transitions.

Work environment, missions and activities

Your mission, the objectives set for you, and the associated activities are primarily part of the Cloud4sams project of the PEPR SAMS programme, which aims to deliver a proof‑of‑concept for a distributed, secure digital infrastructure that enables scientists to exploit microbiome and health data.
Within this project you will:
- Manage metadata in compliance with international standards and the legal, security and regulatory constraints linked to potentially identifiable information
- Define and implement quality criteria (in collaboration with project partners) for evaluating the data and metadata derived from human microbiomes
- Develop an initial software component for the collection, validation and automated deposition of data into secure public repositories. This work will build on the recently developed madbot tool (https://madbot.france-bioinformatique.fr) that provides connectors to repositories, and will be carried out together with the development team steering the project
- Write a guideline for the management and submission of human microbiota data and metadata, and contribute to the creation of training material

Training and skills

Master’s degree (M2) in Computer Science, or a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with proven software‑development experience

INRAE's life quality

By joining our teams, you benefit from (depending on the type of contract and its duration):

- up to 30 days of annual leave + 15 days "Reduction of Working Time" (for a full time);
- parenting support: CESU childcare, leisure services;
- skills development systems: training, career advise;
- social support: advice and listening, social assistance and loans;
- holiday and leisure services: holiday vouchers, accommodation at preferential rates;
- sports and cultural activities;
- collective catering.

How to apply

I send my CV and my motivation letter