Student Assistant / Compulsory Internship

The group Data Management and HPC is regularly recruiting student assistants for topics in the field of data science and high performance computing in close cooperation with our scientific institutes. 

If your topic is not in the following list, please feel free to send us a spontaneous application to Dr. Oliver Knodel

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Portal for data analysis services (VISA)

The Department of Information Services and Computing aims to ensure excellent state-of-the-art research data management for outstanding scientific discoveries in all Helmholtz research fields as well as a seamless integration of comprehensible services to support the entire life cycle of modern research projects.

The Data Management and HPC Group is looking for a student assistant to support us in setting up the VISA platform at HZDR. VISA, the Virtual Infrastructure for Scientific Analysis, enables our scientists to start a data analysis session on our HPC resources as soon as a dataset has been collected. VISA provides access to both remote desktop environments and Jupyter Notebooks, enabling users to remotely analyse data from our facilities during or after the experiment.

• Initial setup of a demonstrator on our HZDR HPC resources
• Incremental integration of further resources with colleagues from the data centre
• Documentation of the deployment steps for reuse with our European partners

Contact: Dr. Oliver Knodel

Requirements

• Experience with administration of Linux systems and virtualisation
• Basic knowledge in software development practices (eg. Git, CI, modularisation, testing)
• Excitement about data science and scientific work in general
• Good command of written and spoken english

Conditions

• Scientific excellence and extensive professional networking opportunities
• Opportunities to build contacts across our European partners
• Working in an international team
• Compensation as student researcher (working hours to be determined)
• Duration: at least 6 months
• Location: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (50% Home-office possible)

Begin: immediately
Compensation: Remuneration according to HZDR internal regulations

Application: Please apply online

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Web Design and Development

The Department of Information Services and Computing aims to ensure excellent state-of-the-art research data management for outstanding scientific discoveries in all Helmholtz research fields as well as a seamless integration of comprehensible services to support the entire life cycle of modern research projects.

The Data Management and HPC Group is looking for a student assistant supporting us in the development of sustainable and intuitive user interfaces for our various web services (eg. RODARE, HELIPORT, PaN-Training.eu, scicat.hzdr.de, ...).

• Designing new designs for our web services to increase user acceptance
• Implementation of the designs within the technologies used for the specific service
• Ensure that the website complies with state-of-the-art responsive web design paradigms

Contact: Dr. Oliver Knodel

Requirements

• Experience in software development with Python or Ruby
• Prior knowledge of (any) web technologies such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, REST or willingness to learn any of these
• Good command of written and spoken english
• Excitement about scientific work in general

Conditions

• Scientific excellence and extensive professional networking opportunities
• Working in an international team
• Compensation as student researcher (working hours to be determined)
• Duration: at least 6 months
• Location: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (50% Home-office possible)

Begin: immediately
Compensation: Remuneration according to HZDR internal regulations

Application: Please apply online