R&D Engineer - Big Data - Distributed Ml Workflows For The Edge-To-Cloud Continuum - E2clab H/F

INRIA

R&D Engineer - Big Data/Distributed ML Workflows for the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum - E2Clab
Le descriptif de l'offre ci-dessous est en Anglais
Type de contrat : CDD

Contrat renouvelable : Oui

Niveau de diplôme exigé : Thèse ou équivalent

Autre diplôme apprécié : Master or Engineering Degree in Computer Science

Fonction : Ingénieur scientifique contractuel

A propos du centre ou de la direction fonctionnelle

Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences, promotes scientific excellence and technology transfer to maximise its impact.
It employs 2,400 people. Its 200 agile project teams, generally with academic partners, involve more than 3,000 scientists in meeting the challenges of computer science and mathematics, often at the interface of other disciplines.
Inria works with many companies and has assisted in the creation of over 160 startups.
It strives to meet the challenges of the digital transformation of science, society and the economy.

Contexte et atouts du poste

About Inria, the team and the position

Inria is the only French public research body fully dedicated to computational sciences. Inria's missions are to produce outstanding research in the computing and mathematical fields of digitalsciences and to ensure its impact on the economy and society through technology transfer and innovation.Throughout its 8 research centres and its approximately 200 project teams, Inriahas a workforce of3 400 scientists withan annual budget of 265 million euros, 29% of which coming from its own resources.Inria Rennes Bretagne-Atlantiqueis one of the eight sites of Inria. This publicly funded research center has a workforce of about 620 people, including full-time research scientists, faculty staff, engineers and support staff,distributed in 33 teams and support services.

The hired engineerwillbeamemberoftheKerDataInriateam () ledbyGabrielAntoniu. KerData is a joint research team of Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique and INSA Rennes, and also a team of the IRISA lab. KerData's main researchactivities address the area of distributed data management at challenging scales, with a recent focus on hybrid (supercomputer/cloud/edge) infrastructures.

Developed by theKerData research team in the context of the STEEL project of the national PEPR CLOUD program, E2Clab ()isa framework that implements a rigorous methodology for designing experiments with real-world workloads (including ML-based workflows) on the Edge-to-Cloud Computing Continuum. It is currently used in several international collaborations in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory (USA), DFKI (Germany) A brief overview of E2Clab is available .

Mission confiée

Mission overview

Byjoiningourteamyouwillparticipateinadynamicworkenvironmentwithexceptionallytalentedandfriendlycoworkerswhoarecommittedtohigh-qualityresearch and development practices.Youwillcollaboratewithesteemedresearchersfromaroundtheworldbytaking the technical responsibility for the development of the E2Clabsoftware, with the following global goals:

- Make E2Clab evolve towardsa distributable, professional-quality software (technical support, documentation, management of the web site);
- Interact with potential users and build demonstrators with the goal to increase E2Clab's visibility and adoption.
- Collaborate with researchers and PhD students on a national and international level to propose and lead new projects.

Principales activités

Detailed missions

- Test and improve the E2Clabcode, buildnon-regressive robustness and performance tests, set upa continuous code integrationprocess;
- Develop the incipient documentation by writinga complete and up-to-date documentation (reference manual, user manual);
- Write extensive example codes to facilitate learning of the interface by new users;
- Design and maintain a profesional-quality web site facilitating the distribution of the code and of its documentation;
- Design and implementation of software demonstrators.
- Participate to meetings with partners in national and international collaborative projects, proposaland lead the development of new technical directions.

Compétences

Required qualifications

- Excellent, demonstrated programming skills in Python (including libraries for parallel processing in Python, e.g., Ray, Dask);
- Very good knowledge of hardware and software technologies in the areas of distributed computing and Big Data;
- Experience with container management tools (Docker, Singularity) and knowledge of automation tools (Ansible) would be very useful;
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and platforms (e.g., Scaleway, OVH);
- Knowledge of IoT/edge communication protocols (e.g., MQTT) is a plus;
- Very good knowledge of methodologies for managing software projects;
- Ability toanalyze andsynthesizeuser requirements;
- Ability to communicate and work in collaboration with experts in the same area and in other areas, in English;
- Autonomy in leading and performing the tasks;
- Sense ofpartnershipand team spirit;
- Taste for transmitting and sharingknowledge, results, progress;
- Facility to present the results in written and oral form.

Avantages

- Subsidised catering service
- Partially-reimbursed public transport

Rémunération

monthly gross salary from 2979 euros according to diploma and experience