EU - FullStack Developer - Seville - European Goverments

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS:

The service provider will be linked to the HUMAINT (Human Behaviour and Machine Intelligence) team and provide transversal support to the Unit Management. In particular, this team carries out studies related to several aspects of Trustworthy AI linked to the AI Act and Digital Services Act such as studies on the risks of AI systems and their mitigation strategies, human-AI interaction studies, analysis of modalities for data access from platforms or evaluations and testing of large language models. The following tasks will be performed by external service provider:

• Definition of technical requirements for new projects in the AI lab. The service provider will analyse the needs of the client for each proposed project and recommend according to his expertise, the solution to implement based on given timeframe, budget, legal constraints and capabilities.

• Preparation of the working environment from a technical point of view and pre-requisites for implementations. She/he will be in charge of setting up any system involved in the project in order for it to be available for the implementation of the solution. 

• Management/administration of systems and infrastructure, especially on premises at JRC Sevilla AI lab. Given a specific project, the service provider will be responsible of administrating the infrastructure involved (either cloud infrastructure or local), and will coordinate with any team in the EC involved in those processes (IT, LISO, Infrastructure, Communication …)

• Development and maintenance of solutions from their design to their final implementation. She/he will establish a communication channel to convey to the client any needs or advances in every project in order to achieve each development or implementation in time and according to the client’s needs.

• Coordination and review of third-party involvements: for some projects, the collaboration with third party entities (companies, universities or organizations) might be needed. For a given project, the service provider will serve as a contact point for the synchronization of tasks and teams and review that every milestone is being achieved in time.

• Reporting of the work done and the blockages found. Where the service provider will be communicating periodically any needs for the team and showing the advances on each project.

• Assistance with any inconvenience that might arise from the technical point of view of each project, doubts or suggestions for improvement.

• Interaction with the business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developer.

• Preparation of technical documentation for project carried out to be incorporated at technical reports, scientific publications, communications or demonstrations to senior management and external collaborations.

3. LEVEL OF EDUCATION

As stated in the Article 2.6.3.1. of DIGIT-TM II Service requirements, a minimum educational qualification for lot 1 is: Level of education corresponding to Level 6 of the European Qualification Framework which typically corresponds to a bachelor’s level or 3 years of higher education.

4. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS 

The service provider should have a back-end developer profile, with experience in data processing languages, tools and techniques. Relevant knowledge and skills for this position:

• Development of back-end architectures. Since he/she will be assisting data scientists, knowledge of Python environments (e.g. Jupyter), and dataset collection and preparation (e.g. annotation, cleaning), machine learning and AI-related technologies would be assets.

• Python programming and integration with data processing libraries or APIs (e.g. SciPy, NumPy, pandas) and other AI/Machine learning python integrations (OpenCV, OpenAI Whisper, OpenAI GPT3, OpenAI DallE,...);

• Cloud services (AWS or similar) for the deployment of collaborative online tools to be used by data-driven researchers.

• Git repositories: high level of expertise in using git alongside with Gitlab/Github, a deep knowledge of the correct gitflow and the workflow of git projects.

• He/she will be requested to be comfortable with both Windows and Linux systems as several tools are adapted to specific operating systems.

• Experience in providing technical support to user studies, e.g. implementation of software prototypes, visualizations and data analysis. In addition, the following transversal skills are required:

• Ability to work independently and efficiently.

• Ability to work in multi-task environments, with the capability to adapt to a dynamic set of tasks

and implement agile project management procedures.

• Ability to apply high quality standards.

• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in software and data-driven development.

• Very good communication skills specially with researchers from backgrounds like cognitive science or economics.

• Analysis and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to participate in technical meetings and good communication skills.

• Ability to write high quality maintainable code, data repositories and related technical documentation. Due to the particular nature of a large international organisation such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:

• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team;

• Ability to understand, speak and write English (B2).

• Excellent time-management skills and ability to contribute to multiple software development projects with overlapping lifecycles.

• Excellent Team Player.

• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the environments managed and maintained by JRC.T3 contain personal and confidential data.

5. SPECIFIC EXPERTISE.

Knowledge of technologies behind research methodologies and tools: He/she must have a general knowledge of common research-oriented technological platforms and organizations (Web of science, Scopus, IEEE…) as well as being used to work alongside researchers to comply with their specific timelines.