Reference: OMTD-CDD-0517 Bibliome research team in MaIAGE laboratory (INRA, French Institute for Agronomic Research) has an open software development position in the H2020 OpenMinTeD project for contributing to the joint development of a European infrastructure for text-mining, its use for information extraction in specific domains and its evaluation. ** *Mission* The recruited person will contribute to, - The implementation of the three community driven applications in the Agriculture and Biodiversity domains (microbiology&food, wheat phenotyping and plant developement) - Their integration into the client applications in bioinformatics infrastructures - The automatisation of the harvesting and update of document collection and NLP resources (ontologies, nomenclatures, lexicon) *Requirements* Candidates should have - a Master in Computer Science or in Bioinformatics with emphasis in Software Engineering; - excellent programming skills (Java, Python); - an experience in design, adaptation or configuration of pipelines is needed, either bioinformatics (e.g. Galaxy) or NLP (e.g. IUMA) - an experience in Web Service (e.g. REST) and Web UI development will be appreciated. - good writing skills (academic English). Collaborative and networking and skills are essential; operational experience in European projects will be considered an advantage. *Position details* _Period_: The starting date will be April 2017 for 12 months (possible extension) _Location_: INRA research center in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris in France. _Salary_: Depends on diploma and level of experience. Gross monthly salary for a Master degree is between 2000 ¤ for a beginner and 3000 ¤ for an experienced Software engineer. The benefit package includes partial reimbursement of local transport and lunch, and health and retirement insurance. *Application* Interested candidates should send their resume and a cover letter with OMTD-CDD-0517 reference to - Claire Nédellec (head of Bibliome research team) (claire.nedellec@jouy.inra.fr) - Copy to Louise Deléger (louise.deleger@jouy.inra.fr) and Robert Bossy (robert.bossy@jouy.inra.fr) *Links* - OpenMinTeD: http://openminted.eu/ - Bibliome: http://maiage.jouy.inra.fr/?q=fr/bibliome/ - MaIAGE: http://maiage.jouy.inra.fr/ - Bioinformatics platforms: - Migale: http://migale.jouy.inra.fr/ - URGI: https://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/Tools/GnpIS - IPS2: http://tools.ips2.u-psud.fr/projects/FLAGdb++/HTML/index.shtml