The position

University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) has a senior engineer position in the Department of Computer Science vacant.

The appointment is for a period of 6 months (10%) for a candidate equipped with knowledge, skills and the will to contribute to a health informatics project to develop a framework for designing dosing regimens for treating infection in longitudinal studies.
The position is organized under the Department of Computer Science, and it’s research group Health Data Lab (HDL).

UiT The Arctic University of Norway is the largest research and educational institution in northern Norway with about 16,000 students and 3,500 employees. UiT is a founding member of the University of the Arctic, an international network of study and research institutions of the circumpolar region. Two hundred international agreements secure an active academic exchange of students and staff with partner institutions worldwide.

The Department of Computer Science provides an active international research environment with 29 tenured faculty members, 12 adjunct professors, 9 post doctors and researchers, 7 technical/ administrative staff members and about 30 PhD students. The goal of the Department is to advance the research and teaching of computer science as a discipline, to demonstrate leadership within our areas of interest, and to contribute to society through our education, research and dissemination. 

The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø.

Job description

The research project
The core aim of the project is to develop a framework to design dosing regimens to treat infection in longitudinal studies.
The position being announced here relates to:

• Deploy the dose design framework in our server.
• Add the calculated populations across different compartments in the framework.
• Manage vCOMBAT webpage

The position will involve scientific development as described above, contributing to scientific articles for multidisciplinary publication avenues for dissemination of the work, collaborating with microscopists, biologists, and artificial intelligence scientists, participating in dataset and code releases, and performing popular science communication.

Qualifications

This position requires a master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science. The candidate must have experience with mathematical models such as mechanistic pharmacodynamic drug-target binding, programming proficiency in C, and Python languages, experience working with high-performance computing servers (with both CPUs and GPUs), and web application development.

Emphasis shall also be attached to the candidates motivation and personal suitability.

We offer

• A good working environment with dedicated colleagues
• Flexible working hours and a state collective pay agreement
• Pension scheme through the state pension fund

The remuneration for a Senior engineer position is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1181. There is a 2% deduction for contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund. As a state employee, you have one of the best pension schemes availiable. For more information see: spk.no.

Application

The application must be submitted electronically via www.jobbnorge.no, and shall include:

• CV and application letter
• Copies of:
  – Diplomas and transcripts (all degrees)
  – Master thesis (or abstract if thesis is not yet submitted or embargoed)
  – List of publication, open source codes, other academic and research output with description of personal contribution (if any)
• Contact information to 2-3 references

All documentation has to be in English or a Scandinavian language.

Inclusion and diversity

UiT The Arctic University i Norway is working actively to promote equality, gender balance and diversity among employees and students, and to create an inclusive and safe working environment. We believe that inclusion and diversity is a strength and we want employees with different competencies, professional experience, life experience and perspectives.

If you have a disability, a gap in your CV or immigrant background, we encourage you to tick the box for this in your application. If there are qualified applicants, we invite least one in each group for an interview. If you get the job, we will adapt the working conditions if you need it. Apart from selecting the right candidates, we will only use the information for anonymous statistics.

General information

The appointment is made in accordance with State regulations and guidelines at UiT. At our website, you will find more information for applicants.

Employees who have been temporarily employed at UiT continuously for more than three years shall be deemedto be permanently employed, cf. the Civil Service Act § 9 (3).

A good work environment is characterized by diversity. We encourage qualified candidates to apply, regardless of their gender, functional capacity or cultural background.

UiT will emphasize making the necessary adaptations to the working conditions for employees with reduced functional ability. Questions can be directed to the contact person for the position.

According to the Norwegian Freedom and Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.