Research Engineer
Your job
As a research engineer, you will collaborate with researchers and IT professionals (over 200 employees). Your mission? To bridge the gap between IT possibilities and the challenges of applied research in Food, Nature, and Agriculture. Create cutting-edge IT solutions that empower and accelerate our groundbreaking research. From scalable systems to secure architectures, you'll work alongside our IT experts to deliver solutions that make a real impact. This role is packed with challenges and offers outstanding career growth and educational opportunities.
You will be based in a multidisciplinary IT team that works in partnership with research teams or projects. A question that you may encounter for example is to integrate existing tools with the shared IT infrastructure. Eventually software changes may be necessary to achieve this integration. Another example is making sure that the data that is collected with the help of measuring devices gets exported to IT infrastructure. You make sure that the researcher can process and analyze the data. These are only a few examples of the challenges that you may meet.
You are familiar with scientific processes. You are able to apply a broad range of consulting and IT skills to support researchers. You have the flexibility to find the right solution for the wide range of questions that you may get.
The responsibilities we trust you with:
Your qualities
We offer you
Wageningen University & Research offers excellent . A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:
In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. We offer, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between
3.088 and 5.737 for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the CLA Wageningen Research (scale 10/11). Additionally, a contract for 0,8 FTE can be discussed.
Wageningen University & Research encourages internal advancement opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a unique position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.
You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.
Coming from abroad
Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees.
Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.
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