Software Engineer (f/m/d) – GIS & Data Spaces for a Sustainable and Resilient Society

Overview

Austria's largest research and technology organisation for applied research is dedicated to solving major challenges such as climate change and digitalisation through research, development and technology competencies. Our open culture of innovation supports international teams as we position AIT as Austria's leading research institution at the highest international level and contribute to economy and society.

Our Center for Digital Safety & Security location in Vienna seeks a new Ingenious Partner. Our Competence Unit for Cooperative Digital Technologies leads applied research on data-based IT solutions to support society, industry and public administration, enabling informed decision making and collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders and end users.

Our Sustainable and Resilience Society team enhances organisational resilience by enabling collaboration across public and private sectors, developing data collection, sharing, analysis and knowledge management solutions to support decision-making in crisis management and sustainable communities. We promote trusted data exchange and manage unstructured knowledge to improve planning, response and resilience to environmental, societal and technological challenges.

Software Engineer (f/m/d) – GIS & Data Spaces for a Sustainable and Resilient Society

CENTER FOR DIGITAL SAFETY & SECURITY

• You will design, implement, and maintain backend solutions for GIS-based applications and data space architectures, creating added value for our partners in building a more sustainable and resilient society.
• In coordination with experts and end-users, you will develop secure, interoperable data-sharing solutions for communities, enabling better decision-making in the context of climate change and long-term societal resilience.
• You will bring your experience in developing complex distributed software systems to conceive and implement innovative solutions, leveraging your proficiency in Python, Angular or React, or building and deploying scalable services.
• You’ll play a key role in designing and implementing knowledge graph storage, querying, and reasoning systems using technologies such as RDF, SPARQL, OWL, GraphDB or similar.

• You will integrate solutions with data spaces aligned to Gaia-X, IDSA, or similar standards, ensuring secure, interoperable, and trusted data exchange between stakeholders.
• You support ongoing communication with stakeholders.
• Your innovative solutions and methods, tailored to user requirements and distinguished by technological and scientific excellence are proven in practice and successfully used in demonstrations.
• You continuously expand your network in the national and international community and actively pass on your knowledge internally to colleagues and students.
• You publish your results in journals and present them at events and scientific conferences.