Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Moveapps

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.; Konstanz; Vor Ort; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An established research institute is seeking a Technical Assistant to join their innovative team in Konstanz. This role involves maintaining and developing applications for animal tracking data, contributing to a collaborative and international work environment. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology while enhancing your programming skills in R and Python. The position offers a flexible working schedule, extensive training opportunities, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. If you are passionate about animal behavior research and technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Leistungen

30 days of vacation

Flexible working hours

Further training opportunities

Open-door culture

Qualifikationen

• Proficient in R and/or Python, willing to learn less known programming languages.
• Ability to work independently and reliably in a collaborative environment.

Aufgaben

• Maintain and improve existing applications and create new ones.
• Test new features and help optimize the MoveApps platform.

Kenntnisse

R

Python

Cloud Computing

Organizational Skills

Tools

Bio-logging Devices

Jobbeschreibung

Scientific and Technical Assistance Radolfzell / Konstanz

Developmental and Evolutionary Biology & Genetics Behavioral Sciences Microbiology & Ecology

Job Code: 137

Job Offer from January 30, 2025

The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at its sites in Constance and Radolfzell offers an international, interdisciplinary, and cooperative environment that opens up unique research opportunities. The goal of our basic research is to develop a quantitative and predictive understanding of the decisions and movements of animals in their natural environment.

MoveApps, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, would like to fill a Technical Assistant (m/f/d) position starting as soon as possible. The workplace will be in Constance and Radolfzell.

Background

MoveApps is an open analysis platform for animal tracking data, developed with the aim to make sophisticated analytical tools accessible to a global community of movement ecologists and wildlife managers. It was beta launched in February 2021 and has currently close to 1500 registered users. MoveApps is being developed by a small team within the Animal-Environment Interaction Lab in collaboration with an external software development company. We are an open, collaborative and international team, aiming at creating a friendly and jointly productive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Help maintain and improve existing apps
• Create new apps
• Help maintain the user manual up to date
• Support other developers if they encounter issues when developing their apps
• Test new features implemented in MoveApps
• Help improve and optimize the platform

Your Profile

• Proficient in R and/or Python and willingness to learn or improve the less known programming language
• Willingness to participate in a collaborative environment
• Ability to work independently, reliably, and responsibly
• Good organizational skills

Additional Skills

• Experience with cloud computing
• Experience with analysis pipelines in science
• Experience handling and analyzing location data (e.g. GPS)
• Experience handling and analyzing non-location data collected by bio-logging devices (e.g. acceleration, magnetometer, etc)

Our Offer

The position will start as soon as possible and is initially limited for 2 years. We offer an interesting job in an open-minded team, flat hierarchies and an open-door culture where we encourage building on strengths, a wide range of further training and education opportunities, 30 days of vacation for a five-day week, flexible working hours, a responsible and varied workplace in a growing interdisciplinary and international research institute. The payment is made in accordance with your experience and qualification and the collective agreement for the public service (TVöD-Bund).

The Max Planck Society endeavors to employ more severely disabled people. Applications of severely disabled persons are expressly welcome. The Max Planck Society strives for gender and diversity equality. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Are you interested? Then we are looking forward to receiving your application until March 14, 2025, with your CV, the contact information of two references and a short motivation letter. With the motivation letter, you should introduce yourself and list the relevant skills that you would bring to the team. Please submit your applications documents via our application portal.