Vacancy No. 78/2025
Research Associate (f/m/d)
Field: Computer Science or Mechatronics
Job description
You will be responsible for the collection, storage, structuring and documentation of scientific measurement data in terms of qualitative and sustainable data management. In close consultation with users, you will familiarise yourself with the necessary metadata standards or database systems and support users in the preparation and storage of data. As a data steward, you will be responsible for data management and organisation, implement standards and processes to ensure accessibility and usability, ensure that the applicable legal and regulatory requirements are met and document the procedures and guidelines developed for best practices when creating operational data from the Energy Lab. You will also act as a bridge between different institutes, departments and disciplines to ensure that data is utilised consistently and effectively. You will also be involved in project work at the Energy Lab.
Personal qualification
- Completed university degree (Diploma (Uni) / Master) in the field of computer science or mechatronics.
- Very good knowledge of programming models and runtime environments for experimental automation of energy technology test systems using modern IoT technologies and field device interfaces
- Experience in dealing with infrastructures such as MQTT, time series databases, Grafana and Linux
- Extensive experience in the field of software development (Beckhoff TwinCAT or Siemens PCS7)
- Good knowledge of software development (Python, Go, Javascript)
- Knowledge of databases (SQL, InfluxDB), containerisation (Docker) and software version management (Git)
- Project management skills
- Willingness to work in a team and undergo further training
- Ability to work independently and a sense of responsibility
Organizational unit
Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI)
Starting date
asap
Salary
Salary category 13 TV-L, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.
Contract duration
limited for 3 years
Application up to
07.03.2025
Contact person in line-management
For further information, please contact Dr. Simon Waczowicz, simon.waczowicz@kit.edu, Tel. 0721 608-24918
Application
Please apply online using the button below for this vacancy number 78/2025 .
Personnel Support is provided by
Ms Wenz
phone: +49 721 608-25093,
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.