Senior Engineer at Centre for Precision Psychiatry

About the position

At the Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, a position as Senior Engineer is available. The Centre runs a series of multidisciplinary studies involving hospital departments in Oslo and several research groups at the University of Oslo. The main goal is to develop tools and knowledge for precision medicine in psychiatry, building on advanced statistical methods for analysis of large-scale human genetic and neuroimaging data, to better understand how biological, psychological, and environmental factors contribute to severe mental and neuropsychiatric disorders, their treatment, and outcomes. 

The Centre has access to a large database of biomarkers, clinical, and cognitive variables, genotyping and sequencing data, and MRI brain imaging data on patients with neuropsychiatric and severe mental disorders. In addition, we actively collaborate with large international consortia, particularly the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), the ENIGMA consortium, and the European Alzheimer's Disease DNA BioBank (EADB). The Centre also has access to the data from a broad range of national and international studies, including the Norwegian population cohorts (MoBa, HUSK, HUNT, TromsøStudy), collaborate with Nordic partners to leverage the registry and biobank information, the UK Biobank, and the ABCD and ADNI studies. 

The Senior Engineer hired for this position will work with the Centre’s datasets, analytical methodology, and computational tools, including state-of-the-art data storage and research infrastructure, hosted at the USIT TSD service (https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/research/sensitive-data/index.html).

For more information https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/english/research/groups/precision-psychiatry/

The employment is a 100% position and is available from August 1, 2025.

You will work with 

• Big data analysis, mathematical modeling, training and testing of AI tools
• Development and deployment of tools for federated learning
• Development of prediction models for mental disorders using large amounts of data from biobanks, eHealth, and registries
• Development of TSD infrastructure
• Coordination of Norwegian and Nordic biobank data and analyses
• Strategic work within precision psychiatry and use of multimodal data 
• Writing and coordination of grant proposals and protocols

Qualifications 

Qualification requirements

• PhD degree in biology, neuroscience, physics, statistics or similar 
• Expertise in statistical methods and mathematical modeling
• Expertise in programming (Python, R, Matlab, and federated learning tools)
• Experience with grant writing within the field of big data and AI-tools 
• Fluent in written and oral English and Norwegian
• Good digital skills

Personal skills

• Good collaboration and communication skills 
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks 
• Independence and reliability 
• Ability to organize and structure work 

Personal suitability will be emphasized in the recruitment process..

We offer

• Exciting and meaningful tasks in an organization with an important societal mission, contributing to knowledge development, education, and enlightenment that promote sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development.
• A pleasant and stimulating work environment
• Good welfare schemes. 
• Opportunity of up to 1.5 hours a week of exercise during working hours.  A workplace with good development and career opportunities.
• Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with beneficial mortgages and good insurance schemes.
• Salary in position as Senior Engineer, position code SKO 1181, in salary range NOK 670 000 – 770 000, depending on competence and experience. From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State Pension Fund.

Read more about the benefits of working in the public sector at Employer Portal.

Inclusive worklife and diversity at UiO

Inclusion and diversity are a strength. The University of Oslo has a personnel policy objective of achieving a balanced gender composition. Furthermore, we want employees with diverse professional expertise, life experience and perspectives.

If there are qualified applicants with disabilities, employment gaps or immigrant background, we will invite at least one applicant from each of these categories to an interview.

We hope that you will apply for the position. 

Application

Your application should include:

• Application letter.
• CV.
• Transcripts and certificates.
• Contact information for 2-3 references.

Application with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge, click "Apply for the position".

When applying for the position, we ask you to retrieve your education results from Vitnemålsportalen.no. If your education results are not available through Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your transcripts or grades. Please note that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.

General information

The best qualified candidates will invited for interviews.

Applicant lists can be published in accordance with Norwegian Freedom of Information Act § 25. When you apply for a position with us, your name will appear on the public applicant list. It is possible to request to be excluded from this list. You must justify why you want an exemption from publication and we will then decide whether we can grant your request. If we cannot, you will hear from us.