...forwarded for your information; this should be a very interesting
post, in an exciting microscopy environment, with lots of new
developments going on, and Spencer is very nice person to work with;
plus, the added bonus of reputedly the best canteen of Paris (and
that's not by Imperial standards, I can confirm it's excellent),
Martin
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Software developer post at the Imagopole facilities of the Institut
Pasteur Paris
The Imagopole (http://www.imagopole.org) is a large
multi-disciplinary centre for functional analyses of
biological systems using optical and electron microscope imaging
methods. It serves primarily
researchers working on infection, microbiology and immunology at the
Institut Pasteur Paris, but is also
open at national and international levels for external research
needs. With around fifty associate
research and engineering staff, rendering advanced technologies for
life sciences research to over five
hundred users, we have special need for excellence in imaging
informatics, and currently are seeking a
an experienced software developer to join our team, for an
appointment of three years. Specifically, the
candidate will join the Imagopole in the context of a newly funded
program (Wellcome Trust) aimed to
develop OME/OMERO (OME) image database architecture for the benefit
of a consortium of partners,
including the Institut Pasteur campus. Towards these ends the Open
Microscopy Environment
Consortium (OME) is in an exciting, well-funded initiative aiming to
leverage great functionality for image
db management through a community effort for improved and updated
Bio-Formats; integration with
ImageJ2, CellProfiler, and KNIME. Downstream there are plans for
improved support for heterogeneous
data, probably via NoSQL; improved data model and ontology support;
improved support for distributed
compute for large-scale analysis. While OMERO applications are
mostly written in Java and Python with
some JavaScript and PL/pgSQL the foundations are old-school
(PostgreSQL, ZeroC’s ICE mixed with a
taste of web scale computing; NoSQL, HDF5 and PyTables). So, the
candidate must have the technical
skills to integrate to this professional team, and the independence
to use their skills for local
developments in the Institut Pasteur Imagopole. The successful
applicant will be based in Paris France,
and will interact closely with researchers and software developers
based in Scotland, Germany, Italy,
and the USA. For more information, see http://openmicroscopy.org.
Responsibilities:
• Client and server side development;
• Rapid prototyping based on new feature requests;
• Participation in the entire life cycle of our applications;
development, testing and deployment;
• Continue development of an existing Java server-based Application
Requirements:
• Java and/or Python programming experience;
• Database-driven application design and data modelling;
• Experience with client-server application development;
• Experience with SQL;
• Excellent object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming skills;
• Experience with Java server development;
• Experience with Linux, Mac OS X or any proprietary Unix flavour;
• Strong collaborative skills with an eye towards efficiency and
creativity
Expertise in one or more of the following:
• C, C++ and/or Python programming experience;
• Template design with Django;
• Experience developing and deploying Java client-server
applications in Linux and/or Windows;
• A procedural SQL language (PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, PL/pgSQL, SQL
PL);
• Oracle or PostgreSQL experience;
• ZeroC’s ICE;
• NoSQL facility;
• Experience in an open source development project
Interested:
Send CV and a letter of intention to: admin-imagopole@pasteur.fr
(Attention: Pr. Spencer Shorte)